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Other People’s Words

The Cycle of Low Literacy

By: Victoria Purcell-Gates

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Other People’s Words

The Cycle of Low Literacy

By: Victoria Purcell-Gates

Literacy researchers have rarely studied families of urban Appalachian background, yet, as Purcell-Gates demonstrates, their often severe literacy problems provide a unique perspective on literacy and the relationship between print and culture. A compelling case study details the author’s work with one such family.

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Harvard University Press

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0674645111

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Print Literacy Development

Uniting Cognitive and Social Practice Theories

By: Victoria PURCELL GATES,Erik Jacobson,Sophie Degener,Victoria Purcell-Gates

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Uniting Cognitive and Social Practice Theories

By: Victoria PURCELL GATES,Erik Jacobson,Sophie Degener,Victoria Purcell-Gates

The authors lucidly explain how we develop our abilities to read and write and offer a unified theory of literacy development that places cognitive development within a sociocultural context of literacy practices.

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Harvard University Press

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0674042379

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Print Literacy Development

Uniting Cognitive and Social Practice Theories

By: Victoria PURCELL GATES,Erik Jacobson,Sophie Degener,Victoria Purcell-Gates

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Uniting Cognitive and Social Practice Theories

By: Victoria PURCELL GATES,Erik Jacobson,Sophie Degener,Victoria Purcell-Gates

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Other People’s Words

The Cycle of Low Literacy

By: Victoria Purcell-Gates

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The Cycle of Low Literacy

By: Victoria Purcell-Gates

If asked to identify which children rank lowest in relation to national educational norms, have higher school dropout and absence rates, and more commonly experience learning problems, few of us would know the answer: white, urban Appalachian children. These are the children and grandchildren of Appalachian families who migrated to northern cities in the 1950s to look for work. They make up this largely “invisible” urban group, a minority that represents a significant portion of the urban poor. Literacy researchers have rarely studied urban Appalachians, yet, as Victoria Purcell-Gates demonstrates in Other People’s Words, their often severe literacy problems provide a unique perspective on literacy and the relationship between print and culture. A compelling case study details the author’s work with one such family. The parents, who attended school off and on through the seventh grade, are unable to use public transportation, shop easily, or understand the homework their elementary-school-age son brings home because neither of them can read. But the family is not so much illiterate as low literate—the world they inhabit is an oral one, their heritage one where print had no inherent use and no inherent meaning. They have as much to learn about the culture of literacy as about written language itself. Purcell-Gates shows how access to literacy has been blocked by a confluence of factors: negative cultural stereotypes, cultural and linguistic elitism, and pedagogical obtuseness. She calls for the recruitment and training of “proactive” teachers who can assess and encourage children’s progress and outlines specific intervention strategies.

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Harvard University Press

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0674252896

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9780674252899

Now We Read, We See, We Speak

Portrait of Literacy Development in an Adult Freirean-Based Class

By: Victoria Purcell-Gates,Robin A. Waterman

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Portrait of Literacy Development in an Adult Freirean-Based Class

By: Victoria Purcell-Gates,Robin A. Waterman

Now We Read, We See, We Speak compellingly captures eight women's progress toward empowerment through a Freirean-based literacy class in rural El Salvador and, in the process, provides telling lessons for literacy and adult educators around the world. This book fills a real gap in the educational literature on critical theory and literacy teaching and learning. For the first time, we have a multi-layered description and analysis of a literacy class based on Freirean precepts and principles, through the perspective of "traditional" literacy theory and as interpreted through a literacy development lens. This allows us to consider how the adult students learned to read and write within a classroom context that embodies such Freirean precepts as dialogic teacher/student relations; respect for and knowledge of the learners' lives, language and culture; and intentionality about social-political change. Thus, this book is directed toward literacy practitioners, teachers, and researchers who may have heard or read about critical theory but have a need for concrete examples of the methodological implications of such theory. Enlivening this account is the compelling description of the histories and lives of the students in the literacy class campesinos women who have survived a brutal and devastating civil war in El Salvador and who, nevertheless, stepped forward to work with a U.S.-trained literacy teacher, Robin Waterman, to learn to read and write for purposes of personal and sociocultural empowerment. The authors provide a highly readable presentation of the historical and cultural contexts for the women and the literacy class. They also raise issues of socioeconomic marginalization, unequal power relationships, and gender as they relate to literacy development. Basing their account on meticulously gathered and analyzed ethnographic data, Purcell-Gates and Waterman go beyond the presentation of the study to suggest implications and issues for adult literacy education in the United States, linking their findings to current topics in adult education, as well as literacy development in general.

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455

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Routledge

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1135662282

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9781135662288

Be that Teacher!

Breaking the Cycle for Struggling Readers

By: Victoria Risko

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Be that Teacher!

Breaking the Cycle for Struggling Readers

By: Victoria Risko

Tens of thousands of students begin each new school year with the hope that they will finally find the teacher who will help them succeed as readers, writers, and learners. This book shows how teachers can provide the type of differentiated instruction that struggling readers need by drawing on students' individual and cultural backgrounds, as well as the results of classroom-based diagnostic and progress-monitoring assessment measures. The authors include authentic examples and case studies from diverse primary and intermediate/middle school classrooms to show how instruction can be implemented and adjusted to accommodate students' individual differences—differences that are influenced by their schools and instructional backgrounds, their cultural and linguistic histories, their interests and activities, their reading and writing habits in and out of school, and their understandings and misunderstandings about texts, print, and digital media. Classroom teachers, reading specialists, reading coaches, and prospective teachers are invited to analyze and reflect about each case presented to help them provide the type of instruction that will change the trajectory for students who continue to fail in reading.

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225

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Teachers College Press

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080775322X

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9780807753224

Local Literacies in Early Childhood

Inequalities in Place, Policy and Pedagogy

By: Helen Victoria Smith

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Local Literacies in Early Childhood

Inequalities in Place, Policy and Pedagogy

By: Helen Victoria Smith

This book contributes to current debates about the importance of early literacy and the different ways that literacy resources offer support to parents with young children. It sheds light on the impact of policy discourse and austerity measures on community resources designed to support children’s early literacy learning. Based on an ethnographic study carried out in a small town in the East Midlands, UK, the book shows how government policy is enacted in four local resources – Sure Start children’s centres, pre-schools, a public library and privately run parent and child early education classes. It reveals how inequalities and contradictions exist in different forms of community literacy provision which can explain some of the educational differences evident when children start school. With a particular focus on mothers, the book reveals how parents are supported differently depending on where they go and how they are viewed by the professionals they encounter. The book contributes to the current literature around literacy in early childhood and combines a unique case study with theoretical concepts to offer a new way of thinking about early intervention, parental engagement and school readiness. Local Literacies in Early Childhood will be highly relevant reading for researchers, academics and post-graduate students in the field of early childhood education and literacy education. It will also be of interest to policymakers, early childhood professionals, literacy advisors and librarians from different local, national and international contexts wishing to support parents and children more equitably so that learning opportunities can be maximised and educational inequalities tackled.

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Routledge

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1000437337

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9781000437331

Other People’s Words

The Cycle of Low Literacy

By: Victoria Purcell-Gates

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The Cycle of Low Literacy

By: Victoria Purcell-Gates

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