Language Arts - Family and Community Literacy, Dec 1993

This teacher-research study clearly shows that we must understand children’s families if we are to afford them the best opportunities for learning in the language arts classroom.

This article helps us understand the literacy backgrounds Navajo children bring to school and what schools need to do to build on their backgrounds to continue children’s success.

The relations between literacy and democracy are complex and mediated by many social, personal, and institutional factors, as this story of reading, writing, and political action shows.

Very positive and somewhat surprising things happen when a teacher makes both English and Spanish prestige languages in the language arts classroom.