03818nam 2200649 a 450 991045523150332120200520144314.01-4106-0565-597866123247031-282-32470-50-585-34937-1(CKB)111004366840090(EBL)446597(OCoLC)609842164(SSID)ssj0000193012(PQKBManifestationID)11182970(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000193012(PQKBWorkID)10218700(PQKB)11436637(MiAaPQ)EBC446597(Au-PeEL)EBL446597(CaPaEBR)ebr10315259(CaONFJC)MIL589231(EXLCZ)9911100436684009019991208d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLiteracy in African American communities[electronic resource] /edited by Joyce L. Harris, Alan G. Kamhi, Karen E. PollockMahwah, N.J. L. Erlbaum Associates20011 online resource (340 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8058-3402-8 0-8058-3401-X Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; About the Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Public and Personal Meanings of Literacy; Chapter 2 "Come Sit Down and Let Mama Read": Book Reading Interactions Between African American Mothers and Their Infants; Chapter 3 Spoken and Written Narrative Development: African American Preschoolers as Storytellers and Storymakers; Chapter 4 Emergent Literacy: Home-School Connections; Chapter 5 Literacy in the African Diaspora: Black Caribbean American Communities; Chapter 6 Reading the Typography of TextChapter 7 The Path to Reading Success or Failure: A Choice for the New MillenniumChapter 8 Reading Performance and Dialectal Variation; Chapter 9 Language Variation and Literacy Acquisition in African American Students; Chapter 10 From the Pews to the Classrooms: Influences of the African American Church on Academic Literacy; Chapter 11 Design and Delivery Issues for Literacy Programs Serving African American Adults; Chapter 12 Effects of Structure Strategy Instruction on Text Recall in Older African American AdultsChapter 13 An Age-Related View of Computer Literacy for Adult African AmericansChapter 14 Coming Full Circle: Some Circumstances Pertaining to Low Literacy Achievement Among African Americans; Author Index; Subject IndexThis volume explores the unique sociocultural contexts of literacy development, values, and practices in African American communities. African Americans--young and old--are frequently the focus of public discourse about literacy. In a society that values a rather sophisticated level of literacy, they are among those who are most disadvantaged by low literacy achievement. Literacy in African American Communities contributes a fresh perspective by revealing how social history and cultural values converge to influence African Americans' literacy values and practices, acknowledging that litAfrican AmericansEducationLiteracyUnited StatesElectronic books.African AmericansEducation.Literacy379.2/4/08996073Harris Joyce L959844Kamhi Alan G.1950-959845Pollock Karen E959846MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455231503321Literacy in African American communities2175456UNINA