Reading Time: The Literate Lives of Urban Secondary Students and Their Families

by Catherine Compton-Lilly

Book Overview

While teachers cannot travel back in time to visit their students at earlier ages, they can draw on the rich sets of experiences and knowledge that students bring to classrooms. In her latest book, Catherine Compton-Lilly examines the literacy practices and school trajectories of eight middle school students and their families. Through a unique longitudinal lens--the author has studied these same students from first grade--we see how students from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807753041
• ISBN13: 9780807753040
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 147 Pages