Acquisition of Literacy

Introduction TAKING FROM TEXTS: CULTURAL VARIATIONS ON A THEME Early Reading at Home: Its Practice and Meanings in a Working Class Community The Book as Narrative Prop in Language Acquisition Reading to Children: A Model for Understanding Texts For the Bible Tells Me So: Teaching Children in a Fundamentalist Church CONNECTING ORAL AND WRITTEN MODES: WHAT CHILDREN CAN DO IN SCHOOL "I Want to Talk to You About Writing": Five-Year-Old Children Speak Six Authors in Search of an Audience Teacher Child Collaboration as Oral Preparation for Literacy Sub-Rosa Literacy: Peers, Play, and Ownership in Literacy Acquisition SCHOOL COMES HOME: WHAT CAN PARENTS DO? Parents as Teachers: Observations of Low-Income Parents and Children in a Homework-like Task "Why" Sheila Can Read: Structure and Indeterminacy in the Reproduction of Familial Literacy LITERACY AFFECTS THE SOCIAL ORDER Literacy Instruction in a Samoan Village Studying Literacy in Morocco The Anthropology of Literacy Acquisition Author Index Subject IndexSchieffelin, Bambi B. is the author of 'Acquisition of Literacy' with ISBN 9780893912062 and ISBN 0893912069.