| Description |
xiii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Literacy, diversity, and programmatic responses / Bertha Pérez -- Language, literacy, and biliteracy / Writing across writing systems / Bertha Pérez -- Language and literacy in American Indian and Alaska native communities / Teresa L. McCarty and Lucille J. Watahomigie -- Language, culture, and literacy in Puerto Rican communities / María E. Torres-Guzmán -- Language and literacy in Vietnamese American communities / To thi Dien -- Language and literacy in Chinese American communities / Ji-Mei Chang -- Literacy and instruction in African American communities : shall we overcome? / Howard L. Smith -- Emergent Spanish writing of a second grader in a whole language classroom / Aurelia Dávila de Silva -- Making decisions about literacy instructional practices / Bertha Pérez -- Creating a classroom community for literacy / Bertha Pérez -- Literacy curriculum and language diversity / Bertha Pérez. |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects.
|
|
Literacy.
|
| Added Author |
Pérez, Bertha, 1945-
|
|
McCarty, T. L.
|
| ISBN |
0805822569 cloth alkaline paper |
|
0805822577 paper alkaline paper |
|
