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by Deborah Brandt (link to JSTOR - SHU login required)
Deborah Brandt introduces the idea of "literacy sponsors" and, through primary data, explains the implications for our understandings about how and why people learn to read and write. This is a useful article to read before you read individual literacy narratives, as it will help give you a framework for analyzing the role of people, power, and institutions in literacy stories.
by Kefaya Diab (video)
In this literacy narrative, Diab describes growing up in poverty and how her relationship to reading and writing outside of school sustained her.
by Jennifer Buckingham, Kevin Wheldall, and Robyn Beaman-Wheldall (PDF permalink through Sage - SHU login required)
In this review of research on literacy acquisition, the writers explore the various ways that students' socioeconomic statuses impact their literacy success.
by Shirley Brice Heath (pdf)
Heath studies the ways that people in three communities (Roadville, Trackton, and Maintown) use and value literacy and how they pass those values down to their children. She also examines how these varying literacy practices impact the children's success in public schools.
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