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- ISSN: 0360-9170
- E-ISSN: 1943-2402
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Rhythm of the Caribbean: Connecting Oral History and Literacy
- Source: Language Arts, Volume 77, Issue 5, May 2000, p. 406 - 413
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- 01 May 2000
Abstract
Traces the author’s own literacy development to her girlhood in a village in rural Jamaica. Looks at storytelling, singing, and rhymes in the rhythm of the village; reading from the Bible and stories told at home; rhythms of song and language in church; and the rhythm of poems and stories in school. Looks at implications for literacy instruction.
© 2000 by the National Council of Teachers of English