Julia López-Robertson is Professor of Education at the University of South Carolina, USA.Melissa Summer Wells is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Mary Washington, USA.

"Re-envisioning Family Engagement and Literacy in Early Childhood Classrooms “Porque asi ya conocemos” is a necessary reimagination of what it means to truly engage families of minoritized and immigrant students in the early childhood classroom... This is a unique book that adds to the repertoire of texts that foreground the need to reconfigure family and community engagement, and school relationships focusing on assets-based approaches... particularly in the area of multilingual and immigrants’ literacy education."Elizabeth Stelle and Carmen Liliana Medina, review in Teachers College Record

• Author BiographiesAcknowledgementsChapter 1: Al principio: Knowing Teachers, Knowing Families Our CuentosChapter 2: Porque hací ya conocemos: Re-envisioning Family Engagement and Literacy in Early Childhood Classrooms Chapter 3: Sueños for Our Children’s Future: Aspirational CapitalChapter 4: Language from el corazón: Linguistic CapitalChapter 5: Familial Capital: The Richness of familia Chapter 6: Together in comunidad: Social CapitalChapter 7: Making mapas: Navigational Capital Chapter 8: Sí se puede: Resistant CapitalChapter 9: Conclusion: Voces in Action: Using Community Cultural Wealth to Engage in ActionAppendix A: Analysis of CCW Themes in Selected Children’s Literature

Julia López-Robertson is Professor of Education at the University of South Carolina, USA.Melissa Summer Wells is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Mary Washington, USA.

"Re-envisioning Family Engagement and Literacy in Early Childhood Classrooms “Porque asi ya conocemos” is a necessary reimagination of what it means to truly engage families of minoritized and immigrant students in the early childhood classroom... This is a unique book that adds to the repertoire of texts that foreground the need to reconfigure family and community engagement, and school relationships focusing on assets-based approaches... particularly in the area of multilingual and immigrants’ literacy education."Elizabeth Stelle and Carmen Liliana Medina, review in Teachers College Record

• Author BiographiesAcknowledgementsChapter 1: Al principio: Knowing Teachers, Knowing Families Our CuentosChapter 2: Porque hací ya conocemos: Re-envisioning Family Engagement and Literacy in Early Childhood Classrooms Chapter 3: Sueños for Our Children’s Future: Aspirational CapitalChapter 4: Language from el corazón: Linguistic CapitalChapter 5: Familial Capital: The Richness of familia Chapter 6: Together in comunidad: Social CapitalChapter 7: Making mapas: Navigational Capital Chapter 8: Sí se puede: Resistant CapitalChapter 9: Conclusion: Voces in Action: Using Community Cultural Wealth to Engage in ActionAppendix A: Analysis of CCW Themes in Selected Children’s Literature

Julia López-Robertson is Professor of Education at the University of South Carolina, USA.Melissa Summer Wells is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Mary Washington, USA.

"Re-envisioning Family Engagement and Literacy in Early Childhood Classrooms “Porque asi ya conocemos” is a necessary reimagination of what it means to truly engage families of minoritized and immigrant students in the early childhood classroom... This is a unique book that adds to the repertoire of texts that foreground the need to reconfigure family and community engagement, and school relationships focusing on assets-based approaches... particularly in the area of multilingual and immigrants’ literacy education."Elizabeth Stelle and Carmen Liliana Medina, review in Teachers College Record

• Author BiographiesAcknowledgementsChapter 1: Al principio: Knowing Teachers, Knowing Families Our CuentosChapter 2: Porque hací ya conocemos: Re-envisioning Family Engagement and Literacy in Early Childhood Classrooms Chapter 3: Sueños for Our Children’s Future: Aspirational CapitalChapter 4: Language from el corazón: Linguistic CapitalChapter 5: Familial Capital: The Richness of familia Chapter 6: Together in comunidad: Social CapitalChapter 7: Making mapas: Navigational Capital Chapter 8: Sí se puede: Resistant CapitalChapter 9: Conclusion: Voces in Action: Using Community Cultural Wealth to Engage in ActionAppendix A: Analysis of CCW Themes in Selected Children’s Literature