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Introduction | |
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Literacy and Identity | |
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"Sharon Cho," from Speaking of Reading | |
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"Kevin Clarke," from Speaking of Reading | |
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"Inside Out," from The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child | |
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From The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights | |
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"My Back Pages," from The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on Discovering the Pleasures of Reading | |
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"Seis," from Bless Me, Ultima | |
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"Discovering Books," from Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth | |
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"The Gift of Reading," from Better Than Life | |
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"Coming into Language," from Doing Time: Twenty-Five Years of Prison Writing | |
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"Silence," from Woman Warrior | |
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"Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood," from Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez | |
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"Reading Has Always Been My Home," from How Reading Changed My Life | |
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"Brownsville Schooldays," from A Walker in the City | |
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Literacy and Power | |
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"Gary Lee," from Speaking of Reading | |
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"Two Ways to Be a Warrior," from Luis Rodriguez: Writer, Community Leader, Political Activist | |
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"The Poets in the Kitchen," from Reena and Other Stories | |
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"Libraries and the Attack on Illiteracy" | |
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"Learning to Read," from The Autobiography of Malcolm X | |
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"In Conversation with Ernest J. Gaines" | |
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"Learning to Read" | |
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"Precious Words" | |
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"Learning to Read and Write," from Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave | |
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"India's Literacy Miracle" | |
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"Interrogation," from Son of the Revolution | |
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"Reign of the Reader" | |
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How We Read | |
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"Gerald Eisman," from Speaking of Reading | |
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"The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently," from New and Selected Poems | |
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"The Birth of an Alchemist," from Better Than Life | |
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"Watch TV--In Your Head!" | |
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"Tuning," from The Winter Room | |
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"Superman and Me," from The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on Discovering the Pleasures of Reading | |
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"How to Mark a Book," from The Mercury Reader | |
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"Learning to Read," from A History of Reading | |
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"Three Wise Guys: Un Cuento de Navidad/A Christmas Story" | |
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"The New Case for Latin" | |
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"No Words," from Wild Country: Outdoor Poems for Young People | |
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"Teaching People to Hate Literature" | |
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"Team Xerox" | |
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"Private Reading," from A History of Reading | |
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Breaking Codes | |
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"Susan Schulter," from Speaking of Reading | |
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"Important: Read This First" | |
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"The Secret Language of Custom" | |
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"Language Heads Down the Rabbit Hole" | |
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"Cinematic Grammar," from Reading the Movies: Twelve Great Films on Video and How to Teach Them | |
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"Hip-Hop Becoming a Worldwide Language for Youth Resistance" | |
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"Double-Talk" | |
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"Technicality," from Science and Language Links: Classroom Implications | |
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"Comic Books," from A Book of Puzzlements: Play and Invention with Language | |
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Further Reading | |
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About the Editors | |
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About the Sponsor | |
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Sources and Permissions | |