The word “writing” refers not only to text in written script but also to the acts of thinking,
composing, and encoding language into such text; these acts also necessarily entail …

SARAH J. McCARTHEY University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign heorists and
researchers are currently developing new T models of teaching and learning that closely …

Bilingual Education: From Compensatory to Quality Schooling, Second Edition maintains its
original purpose of synthesizing the research on successful bilingual education in order to …

This handbook applies proven techniques, derived from bilingual/bicultural classrooms, to
teaching literacy in the twenty-first century. Its goal is to help teachers increase their …

This unique book tells the story of a select group of schools and teachers who have
managed to beat the odds in terms of improving elementary students reading achievement …

The aim of this qualitative study was to examine how Latino immigrant families incorporate
school‐based interactive literacy activities into their existing home literacy practices …

Title: Reading skills among 9-10 year olds. The importance of school climate, collaboration
between school and home, teacher competence and pupils' home background Language …

Despite the consensus of beliefs about the importance of home-school collaboration
(Kellaghan, Sloane, Alvarez, & Bloom, 1993; Schneider & Coleman, 1993), little is actually …

Preservice teachers from a Hispanic-serving university and Latino families reflected on their
interactions during an after-school children's tutoring program conducted at an elementary …

Alternative assessment approaches to standardized, norm-reference tests are increasingly
recommended as best practice for assessing young children, especially those from minority …