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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 | |