Many pathways to literacy :  young children learning with siblings, grandparents, peers, and communities / 
edited by Eve Gregory, Susi Long, Dinah Volk. 
 - xvi, 251 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-244) and index. 
<br/><br/> Foreword /  Introduction : syncretic literacy studies : starting points /  A sociocultural approach to learning /  The family context : siblings and grandparents --  Mediating networks for literacy learning : the role of Puerto Rican siblings /  Samia and Sadaqat play school : early bilingual literacy at home /  'Right, get your book bags!' : siblings playing school in multiethnic London /  Buzz Lightyear in the nursery : intergenerational literacy learning in a multimedia age /  Storytelling and Latino elders : what can children learn? /  Friends as Teachers --  Making a place for peer interaction : Mexican American kindergartners learning language and literacy /  Community school pupils reinterpret their knowledge of Chinese and Arabic for primary school peers /  'How do I read these words?' : bilingual exchange teaching between Cantonese speaking peers /  Friendship literacy : young children as cultural and linguistic experts /  Learning to be just : interactions of White working class peers /  Learning in community settings --  Change and tradition in literacy instruction in a Samoan American community /  Multilingual flexibility and literacy learning in an Urdu community school /  The African American Church : a beacon of light on the pathway to literacy for African American children /  His eye on the sparrow : teaching and learning in an African American church /  Cultural literacy in the world of Pueblo children /  Conclusion : many pathways : implications of syncretic literacy studies for practice and research /  Barbara Rogoff and Maricela Correa-Chavez --  Eve Gregory, Susi Long and Dinah Volk --  Eve Gregory, Susi Long and Dinah Volk --  Dinah Volk and Martha De Acosta --  Rose Drury --  Ann Williams --  Clare Kelly --  Irma M. Olmedo --  Susi Long, Donna Bell and Jim Brown --  Charmian Kenner --  Yuangguang Chen and Eve Gregory --  Manjula Datta --  Rebecca Rogers and Melissa Mosley --  Alessandro Duranti, Elinor Ochs and Elia K. Ta'ase --  Leena Helavaara Robertson --  Gwendolyn Thompson McMillon and Patricia A. Edwards --  Wendy L. Haight and Janet Carter-Black --  Mary Eunice Romero --  Eve Gregory, Susi Long and Dinah Volk.  1.  Pt. I.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  Pt. II.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  Pt. III.  12.  13.  14.  15.  16. 
<br/><br/> "Based on extensive research that proves that children actively make sense of literacy outside the official schooling and parental tuition they receive."--Publisher description. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415306175 9780415306171 0415306167 9780415306164 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003016882 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Language arts (Early childhood)--Social aspects--United States--Cross-cultural studies<br/>Language arts (Early childhood)--Social aspects--Great Britain--Cross-cultural studies<br/>Home and school--Cross-cultural studies<br/>Community and school--Cross-cultural studies<br/>Education, Bilingual--Cross-cultural studies
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB1139.5.L35  / M37 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>372.6