Raising Black Children Who Love Reading and Writing - A Guide from Birth Through Grade Six

Paul provides specific tools that parents can work with to make their children lifelong lovers of reading and writing. As a former teacher in the public school system, Paul is well acquainted with it, and provides parents with insights that will assist them in establishing an educational partnership with their children's teachers.

This guide is geared specifically to Black children from the perspective of an educator and parent. It provides a historical framework that gives a firm foundation upon which to build an understanding of literacy as potentially emancipatory and empowering. This guide includes an annotated bibliography featuring exemplary children's and adolescent literature.

List of contents

Introduction
Black Child/U.S. School System
Comprehending Language and Culture
Infants, Toddlers, and Emergent Literacy
The Preschool Reader and Writer
Selecting a School
Early Elementary School Readers and Writers
The Older Child and Literacy Development
Of Special Concern: Reading Disability
Appendixes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Dierdre Paul

Product details

• Authors: Dierdre Paul, Dierdre Glenn Paul
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2000
• EAN: 9780897895552
• ISBN: 978-0-89789-555-2
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Babysitting, Day Care & Child Care, English, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General, Child care & upbringing, Teaching of a specific subject, Child care and upbringing: advice for parents, Teachers' classroom resources & material, Educational: English language: reading & writing skills, Teachers’ classroom resources and material, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General, EDUCATION / Teaching / Materials & Devices, Race and Ethnicity: African American Studies