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200 00$aLiteracy in African American communities$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Joyce L. Harris, Alan G. Kamhi, Karen E. Pollock
210   $aMahwah, N.J. $cL. Erlbaum Associates$d2001
215   $a1 online resource (340 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
327   $aBook 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 Text
327   $aChapter 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 Adults
327   $aChapter 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 Index
330   $aThis 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 lit
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