Unfulfilled Expectations: Home and School Influences on Literacy,

by Catherine E. Snow

Book Overview

Unfulfilled Expectations examines the home and family characteristics, school teaching practices, and family-school relationships that affect the literacy development of low-income children. Eschewing comparisons across social class, the authors focus exclusively on an ethnically diverse group of low-income children in grades two, four, and six, the thirty-two subjects of an intensive two-year study and a follow-up study five years later. The authors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674921100
• ISBN13: 9780674921108
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"