Growing Up Literate: Learning from Inner-City Families

by Denny Taylor and Catheri Dorsey-Gaines

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 write despite extraordinary economic hardship, this multiracial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0435084577
• ISBN13: 9780435084578
• Release Date: June 1988
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Growing up

This book opened my eyes to really take a good look at the student and their environment. It was a very powerful book