Other People's Words: The Cycle of Low Literacy

Acknowledgments Introduction: Literacy, Schools, and Society 1. Nonliterate in an American City 2. Jenny and Donny's World 3. A World without Print 4. Becoming Literate: Donny 5. In Her Own Words: Jenny 6. Print Enters the World of Donny and Jenny 7. Who Reads and Writes in My World? 8. Exclusion and Access 9. The Complexities of Culture, Language, Literacy, and Cognition Appendix: Research Procedures and Stances Notes References Index