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Title Many pathways to literacy : young children learning with siblings, grandparents, peers, and communities / edited by Eve Gregory, Susi Long, Dinah Volk
Published New York ; London : RoutledgeFalmer, 2004

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Description xvi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents A sociocultural approach to learning / Eve Gregory, Susi Long, Dinah Volk -- Mediating networks for literacy learning : the role of Puerto Rican siblings / Dinah Volk with Martha de Acosta -- Samia and Sadaqat play school : early bilingual literacy at home / Rose Drury -- 'Right, get your book bags!' : siblings playing school in multiethnic London / Ann Williams -- Buzz Lightyear in the nursery : intergenerational literacy learning in a multi-media age / Clare Kelly -- Storytelling and Latino elders : what can children learn? / Irma Olmedo -- Making a place for peer interaction : Mexican American kindergartners learning language and literacy / Susi Long with Donna Bell and Jim Brown -- Community school pupils re-interpret their knowledge of Chinese and Arabic for primary school peers / Charmian Kenner -- 'How do I read these words?' : bilingual exchange teaching between Cantonese speaking peers / Yuangguang Chen and Eve Gregory -- Friendship literacy : young children as cultural and linguistic experts / Manjula Datta -- Learning to be just : interactions of white working class peers / Rebecca Rogers and Melissa Mosley -- Change and tradition in literacy instruction in a Samoan American community / Alessandro Duranti, Elinor Ochs, and Elia K. Ta'ase -- Multilingual flexibility and literacy learning in an Urdu community school / Leena Helavaara Robertson -- The African American church : a beacon of light on the pathway to literacy for African American children / Gwendolyn McMillon and Patricia A. Edwards -- His eye on the sparrow : teaching and learning in an African American church / Wendy L. Haight and Janet Carter-Black -- Cultural literacy in the world of Pueblo children / Mary Eunice Romero
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Literacy -- Study and teaching (Early childhood) -- Cross-cultural studies.
Language arts (Early childhood) -- Social aspects -- United States -- Cross-cultural studies.
Language arts (Early childhood) -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- Cross-cultural studies.
Home and school -- Cross-cultural studies.
Community and school -- Cross-cultural studies.
Education, Bilingual -- Cross-cultural studies.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies.
Author Gregory, Eve.
Volk, Dinah.
Long, Susi, 1952-
LC no. 2003016882
ISBN 0415306167 cased
0415306175 paperback
Other Titles Young children learning with siblings, grandparents, peers and communities