IntroductionTAKING FROM TEXTS: CULTURAL VARIATIONS ON A THEMEEarly Reading at Home: Its Practice and Meanings in a Working Class CommunityThe Book as Narrative Prop in Language AcquisitionReading to Children: A Model for Understanding TextsFor the Bible Tells Me So: Teaching Children in a Fundamentalist ChurchCONNECTING ORAL AND WRITTEN MODES: WHAT CHILDREN CAN DO IN SCHOOL"I Want to Talk to You About Writing": Five-Year-Old Children SpeakSix Authors in Search of an AudienceTeacherChild Collaboration as Oral Preparation for LiteracySub-Rosa Literacy: Peers, Play, and Ownership in Literacy AcquisitionSCHOOL COMES HOME: WHAT CAN PARENTS DO?Parents as Teachers: Observations of Low-Income Parents and Children in a Homework-like Task"Why" Sheila Can Read: Structure and Indeterminacy in the Reproduction of Familial LiteracyLITERACY AFFECTS THE SOCIAL ORDERLiteracy Instruction in a Samoan VillageStudying Literacy in MoroccoThe Anthropology of Literacy AcquisitionAuthor IndexSubject Index
