Title Reading families : the literate lives of urban children / Catherine Compton-Lilly ; foreword by Barbara Comber.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	372.425 C738R	Check Shelf

Description	xii, 156 pages ; 24 cm.
Series	The practitioner inquiry series
	Practitioner inquiry series.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-151) and index.
Contents	Foreword / Barbara Comber -- Exploring the Discourses That Occupy Urban Schools -- A Theoretical Framework -- Mainstream Discourses About Reading -- Mainstream Discourses About Urban Families -- Discourses in Education -- The Possession of Capital -- Research Methodology -- Site and Participants -- Data Collection -- Analysis of Data -- Being a Teacher-Researcher -- Being a White Teacher -- The Role of Reading in the Lives of My Students and Their Families -- Reading and Survival -- Reading and "Getting Somewhere" -- Not Knowing How to Read -- Parents' and Teachers' Roles in Helping Children Learn to Read -- Parents as Teachers -- Staying on Children -- The Role of Social Relationships in Learning to Read -- Relationships in an Urban Community -- The Construction of Urban Reading Identities -- Parents' Reading Identities -- Contradictions and Complexities -- Challenging and Supporting Mainstream Discourses -- "I Don't Know:" The Limits of Alternative Discourses -- Alternative Discourses and Social Change -- A Concluding Case Study -- Bradford's Family and Reading: Application of a Contextualized Model -- Bradford's Family and Capital.
Summary	This dynamic text offers a rare glimpse into the literacy development of urban children and their families' role in it. Based on the author's candid interviews with her first-grade students, their parents and grandparents, this book challenges the stereotypical view that urban parents don't care about their children's education. By listening closely to the voices of her students and their families, the author helps us to move beyond negative assumptions, revealing complexities that have previously been undocumented.
Subject	City children -- Education -- United States -- Case studies.
	City children -- Books and reading -- United States -- Case studies.
	Reading -- Parent participation -- United States -- Case studies.
	Education, Urban -- United States -- Case studies.
	City children -- Books and reading. (OCoLC)fst01766864
	City children -- Education. (OCoLC)fst00862108
	Education, Urban. (OCoLC)fst00903310
	Reading -- Parent participation. (OCoLC)fst01090655
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Eltern (DE-588)4014516-5
	Leseverhalten (DE-588)4130705-7
	Stadtkind (DE-588)4138941-4
	United States.
Genre/Form	Case studies.
	Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
	Case studies.
ISBN	0807742767 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
	9780807742761 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
	0807742775 (cloth ; alk. paper)
	9780807742778 (cloth ; alk. paper)

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