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Tables of Contents for The Best for Our Children
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
ix
 
Sonia Nieto
Preface
xiii
 
Introduction
1
12
Maria de la Luz Reyes
John J. Halcon
Part I: SOCIOCULTURAL, SOCIOHISTORICAL, AND SOCIOPOLITICAL CONTEXT OF LITERACY
The Diversity of Schooling: A Cultural-Historical Approach
13
16
Luis C. Moll
Teacher as Sociocultural, Sociohistorical Mediator: Teaching to the Potential
29
19
Esteban Diaz
Barbara Flores
The Need for Educators with Political and Ideological Clarity: Providing Our Children with ``The Best''
48
17
Lilia I. Bartolome
Maria V. Balderrama
Mainstream Ideology and Literacy Instruction for Spanish-Speaking Children
65
16
John J. Halcon
Part II: BILITERACY, HYBRIDITY, AND OTHER LITERACIES
Starting Off Right: Planting the Seeds for Biliteracy
81
15
Maria Echiburu Berzins
Alice E. Lopez
Unleashing Possibilities: Biliteracy in the Primary Grades
96
26
Maria de la Luz Reyes
Literacy as Hybridity: Moving Beyond Bilingualism in Urban Classrooms
122
20
Kris D. Gutierrez
Patricia Baquedano Lopez
Hector H. Alvarez
Hooked on Writing: Linking Literacy to Students' Lived Experiences
142
11
Eloise Andrade Laliberty
Part III: READING THE WORD BY READING THE WORLD
Strategic Reading for Language-Related Disabilities: The Case of a Bilingual Latina Student
153
15
Robert T. Jimenez
Reflections on the Power of Spanish: Confessions from the Field
168
16
Carmen I. Mercado
Reading Adolescents/Adolescents Reading: Toward Critically Literate Latino Youth
184
14
Roberta Maldonado
Literacy Development of Latino Students: Using Our Present Realities to Shape Our Futures
198
15
Bobbi Ciriza Houtchens
It's About YOUth!: Chicano High School Students Revisioning Their Academic Identity
213
16
Maria E. Franquiz
Parent Narratives: The Cultural Bridge Between Latino Parents and Their Children
229
16
Alma Flor Ada
Rosa Zubizarreta
Afterword: Re/constructing a New Reality
245
4
Maria de la Luz Reyes
Index
249
8
About the Editors and the Contributors
257