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Author: Joyce L. Harris , Alan G. Kamhi , Karen E. Pollock
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.630kg
ISBN: 9780805834024
ISBN 10: 0805834028
Pages: 340
Publication Date: 01 November 2000
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print 
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Table of Contents
"Contents: S.B. Heath, Foreword. Preface. C.D. Qualls, Public and Personal Meanings of Literacy. C.S. Hammer, ""Come Sit Down and Let Mamma Read"": Book Reading Interactions Between African American Mothers and Their Infants. D. Bloome, T. Champion, L. Katz, M.B. Morton, R. Muldrow, Spoken and Written Narrative Development: African American Preschoolers as Storytellers and Storymakers. J.C. Scott, C.D. Marcus, Emergent Literacy: Home-School Connections. S.L. Horner, Literacy in the African Diaspora: Black Caribbean American Communities. J. Hartley, J.L. Harris, Reading the Typography of Text. A.G. Kamhi, S.P. Laing, The Path to Reading Success or Failure: A Choice for the New Millennium. J.A. Washington, H.K. Craig, Reading Performance and Dialectal Variation. N.R. LeMoine, Language Variation and Literacy Acquisition in African American Students. B.J. Moss, From the Pews to the Classrooms: Influences of the African American Church on Academic Literacy. T.A. Crowe, M.E. Byrne, S.T. Hale, Design and Delivery Issues for Literacy Programs Serving African American Adults. B.J.F. Meyer, A.P. Talbot, L.W. Poon, M.M. Johnson, Effects of Structure Strategy Instruction on Text Recall in Older African American Adults. M.M. Huff, W.A. Rogers, An Age-Related View of Computer Literacy for Adult African Americans. J. Baugh, Coming Full Circle: Some Circumstances Pertaining to Low Literacy Achievement Among African Americans."
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State-of-the-art research from a viewpoint not yet seen in the literature....Provides much needed empirical data, from the perspectives of linguists, speech-language pathologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and educators, addressing various issues surrounding literacy in African American communities across the human life span. -Sharon E. Moss American Speech-Language-Hearing Association An urgent and important topic....The experts assembled are a good mixture of practitioners and researchers in literacy and related disciplines. -Violet J. Harris University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
State-of-the-art research from a viewpoint not yet seen in the literature....Provides much needed empirical data, from the perspectives of linguists, speech-language pathologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and educators, addressing various issues surrounding literacy in African American communities across the human life span. -Sharon E. Moss American Speech-Language-Hearing Association An urgent and important topic....The experts assembled are a good mixture of practitioners and researchers in literacy and related disciplines. -Violet J. Harris University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Joyce L. Harris, Alan G. Kamhi, Karen E. Pollock
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