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Growing Up Literate: Learning from Inner-City Families
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A couple years ago, Denny Taylor and Catherine Dorsey Gaines made the first of what were to be many visits to families living in the inner city of a major metropolitan area in the Northeast. Their aim: to study the familial contexts in which young Black children living in urban poverty are growing up literate. Through their focus on children who were successfully learning to read and wri... More
Book Information
PublisherHeinemann
BindingPaperback (2 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages256
ISBN-100435084577
ISBN-13978-0435084578
Publication Date06/01/1988
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About Catherine Dorsey-Gaines (Author) : Catherine Dorsey-Gaines is a published author. A published credit of Catherine Dorsey-Gaines is Growing Up Literate: Learning from Inner-City Families.
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About Denny Taylor (Author) : Denny Taylor is a published author. Published credits of Denny Taylor include Toxic Literacies : Exposing the Injustice of Bureaucratic Texts and Growing Up Literate: Learning from Inner-City Families... more
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