Other People's Words

The Cycle of Low Literacy

Victoria Purcell-Gates

  • Winner of the 1996 Grawemeyer Award in Education of the University of Louisville

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

  • Cover: Other People's Words

Victoria Purcell-Gates is Canada Research Chair in Early Childhood Literacy at the University of British Columbia.