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Author Heath, Shirley Brice.

Title Children of promise : literate activity in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms / Shirley Brice Heath, Leslie Mangiola ; Sandra R. Schecter, Glynda A. Hull, editors
Published Washington, DC : NEA Professional Library, National Education Association, [1991]
©1991

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Description 64 pages ; 23 cm
Series NEA school restructuring series
NEA school restructuring series.
Contents Cultural and linguistic differences -- Inside classrooms -- Learning through cross-age, interactive tutoring : California -- Observing and writing about teaching and learning : Texas -- Collecting and analyzing spoken and written language data : Massachusetts -- Writing, learning, and the teacher's role -- Viewing language as an instrument and object of study -- Finding expertise in the learner -- Using language for identifying and solving problems -- Literate behaviors build literacy skills -- Defining literate behaviors -- Promoting literate behaviors -- Students and teachers as co-evaluators -- The purpose of student involvement in assessment -- Building theory and practice together -- Implementing cross-grade tutoring projects
Notes "A joint publication of National Education Association, Center for the Study of Writing and Literacy, American Educational Research Association."
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 57-62
Subject Education, Bilingual -- United States.
Literacy programs -- California -- Case studies.
Peer teaching -- California -- Case studies.
Author Hull, Glynda
Mangiola, Leslie.
Schecter, Sandra R.
American Educational Research Association.
Center for the Study of Writing and Literacy.
National Education Association of the United States.
LC no. 91000634
ISBN 0810618443