TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gregory,Eve
AU  - Long,Susi
AU  - Volk,Dinah
TI  - Many pathways to literacy: young children learning with siblings, grandparents, peers, and communities 
SN  - 0415306175
AV  - LB1139.5.L35 M37 2004
U1  - 372.6 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Language arts (Early childhood)
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Home and school
KW  - Community and school
KW  - Education, Bilingual
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-244) and index; Foreword; Barbara Rogoff and Maricela Correa-Chavez --; Introduction : syncretic literacy studies : starting points; Eve Gregory, Susi Long and Dinah Volk --; 1; A sociocultural approach to learning; Eve Gregory, Susi Long and Dinah Volk --; Pt. I; The family context : siblings and grandparents --; 2; Mediating networks for literacy learning : the role of Puerto Rican siblings; Dinah Volk and Martha De Acosta --; 3; Samia and Sadaqat play school : early bilingual literacy at home; Rose Drury --; 4; 'Right, get your book bags!' : siblings playing school in multiethnic London; Ann Williams --; 5; Buzz Lightyear in the nursery : intergenerational literacy learning in a multimedia age; Clare Kelly --; 6; Storytelling and Latino elders : what can children learn?; Irma M. Olmedo --; Pt. II; Friends as Teachers --; 7; Making a place for peer interaction : Mexican American kindergartners learning language and literacy; Susi Long, Donna Bell and Jim Brown --; 8; Community school pupils reinterpret their knowledge of Chinese and Arabic for primary school peers; Charmian Kenner --; 9; 'How do I read these words?' : bilingual exchange teaching between Cantonese speaking peers; Yuangguang Chen and Eve Gregory --; 10; Friendship literacy : young children as cultural and linguistic experts; Manjula Datta --; 11; Learning to be just : interactions of White working class peers; Rebecca Rogers and Melissa Mosley --; Pt. III; Learning in community settings --; 12; Change and tradition in literacy instruction in a Samoan American community; Alessandro Duranti, Elinor Ochs and Elia K. Ta'ase --; 13; Multilingual flexibility and literacy learning in an Urdu community school; Leena Helavaara Robertson --; 14; The African American Church : a beacon of light on the pathway to literacy for African American children; Gwendolyn Thompson McMillon and Patricia A. Edwards --; 15; His eye on the sparrow : teaching and learning in an African American church; Wendy L. Haight and Janet Carter-Black --; 16; Cultural literacy in the world of Pueblo children; Mary Eunice Romero --; Conclusion : many pathways : implications of syncretic literacy studies for practice and research; Eve Gregory, Susi Long and Dinah Volk
N2  - "Based on extensive research that proves that children actively make sense of literacy outside the official schooling and parental tuition they receive."--Publisher description
ER  -