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Tables of Contents for Literacy for a Diverse Society
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
vii
Frederick Erickson
Preface
xi
Introduction
1
6
Elfrieda H. Hiebert
Part I: Perspectives
7
84
Literacy and Schooling: A Sociocognitive Perspective
9
19
Judith A. Langer
Social and Cultural Constraints on Students' Access to School Knowledge
28
16
Margaret A. Eisenhart
Katharine Cutts-Dougherty
Diversity and Constancy in Human Thinking: Critical Literacy as Amplifier of Intellect and Experience
44
14
Robert Calfee
Sharon Nelson-Barber
Cultural Literacy Reconsidered
58
17
Ernest R. House
Carol Emmer
Nancy Lawrence
Redefining Literacy and Literacy Contexts: Discovering a Community of Learners
75
16
Ofelia B. Miramontes
Nancy L. Commins
Part II: Practices
91
124
Characteristics of Literacy Programs for Language-Minority Students
93
15
Robert Rueda
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Classroom Discourse and Literacy
108
14
Pamela McCollum
Promoting Literacy Through Classroom Dialogue
122
19
Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar
Yvonne Marie David
Task and Talk Structures That Foster Literacy
141
16
Elfrieda H. Hiebert
Charles W. Fisher
A Process Approach to Literacy Instruction for Spanish-Speaking Students: In Search of a Best Fit
157
15
Maria de la Luz Reyes
Enhancing Literacy Through Cooperative Learning
172
12
Michael S. Meloth
Two-Tiered Scaffolding: Congruent Processes of Teaching and Learning
184
15
Janet S. Gaffney
Richard C. Anderson
Fostering Early Literacy Through Parent Coaching
199
16
Patricia A. Edwards
Part III: Policies
215
84
Policy and the Rationalization of Schooling
217
11
Rexford Brown
Literature: Whose Heritage?
228
9
Arthur N. Applebee
Children Who Find Learning to Read Difficult: School Responses to Diversity
237
16
Richard L. Allington
The Role of Assessment in a Diverse Society
253
26
Georgia Earnest Garcia
P. David Pearson
Negative Policies for Dealing With Diversity: When Does Assessment and Diagnosis Turn Into Sorting and Segregation?
279
20
Lorrie A. Shepard
About the Contributors
299
8
Index
307