Other People's Words The Cycle of Low Literacy

Name: Other People's Words The Cycle of Low Literacy
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ISBN: 9780674645110

ISBN-10: 0674645111

ISBN-13: 9780674645110

Edition: 1995

Authors: Victoria Purcell-Gates

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Other People's Words is a highly readable and richly layered exploration of literacy learning. A compelling case study details the author's work with one such family.

Book details

List price: $35.50
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/25/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Victoria Purcell-Gates is Canada Research Chair in Early Childhood Literacy at the University of British Columbia.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Literacy, Schools, and Society


Nonliterate in an American City


Jenny and Donny's World


A World without Print


Becoming Literate: Donny


In Her Own Words: Jenny


Print Enters the World of Donny and Jenny


Who Reads and Writes in My World?


Exclusion and Access


The Complexities of Culture, Language, Literacy, and Cognition


Appendix: Research Procedures and Stances


Notes


References


Index