Literacy in African American communities / edited by Joyce L. Harris, Alan G. Kamhi, Karen E. Pollock.

Available through the EBSCO e-book Collection, which can be found on the Davenport University Library database page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Shirley Brice Heath -- Public and Personal Meanings of Literacy / Constance Dean Qualls -- "Come Sit Down and Let Mama Read": Book Reading Interactions Between African American Mothers and Their Infants / Carol Scheffner Hammer -- Spoken and Written Narrative Development: African American Preschoolers as Storytellers and Storymakers / David Bloome, Tempii Champion, Laurie Katz, Mary Beth Morton, Ramona Muldrow -- Emergent Literacy: Home-School Connections / Jerrie C. Scott, Cheryl D. Marcus -- Literacy in the African Diaspora: Black Caribbean American Communities / Sherri L. Horner -- Reading the Typography of Text / James Hartley, Joyce L. Harris -- The Path to Reading Success or Failure: A Choice for the New Millennium / Alan G. Kamhi, Sandra P. Laing -- Reading Performance and Dialectal Variation / Julie A. Washington, Holly K. Craig -- Language Variation and Literacy Acquisition in African American Students / Noma R. LeMoine -- From the Pews to the Classrooms: Influences of the African American Church on Academic Literacy / Beverly J. Moss -- Design and Delivery Issues for Literacy Programs Serving African American Adults / Thomas A. Crowe, Marie E. Byrne, Sue T. Hale -- Effects of Structure Strategy Instruction on Text Recall in Older African American Adults / Bonnie J.F. Meyer, Andrew P. Talbot, Leonard W. Poon, Melissa M. Johnson -- An Age-Related View of Computer Literacy for Adult African Americans / Monica M. Huff, Wendy A. Rogers.

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