Literacy in the home is often judged as an inferior version of school literacy. In multilingual
contexts, family literacy practices tend to be characterised as traditional and more reliant on …

This article presents the findings of research that investigated literacy practices in homes
and prior-to-school settings. The research was unique in its aim seek families' perspectives …

As an educational community we know relatively little about the everyday school lives of
primary school-aged children attending schools in low socioeconomic communities, about …

Family literacy programs can start with peoples strengths rather than their deficits and focus
on different types of language and literacy. this article I focus on family literacy programs in …

This paper reports on one aspect of a collaborative early childhood literacy research project
in New South Wales, Australia, where two government departments and three universities …

This research reports on research into the range of literate practices taking place in
suburban families in one Australian site and considers the implications of these literacies for …

Ten British preschool children from low‐income backgrounds were identified by their
prospective teachers as likely to make good or poor literacy progress [referred to in the study …

This study was conducted against the background of a British government initiative–The
National Literacy Strategy–which prescribes a daily hour of formal literacy instruction for …

This unique and timely book follows the experiences of four Arabic teenagers, their families
and their community, focusing on the role of literacy in their daily lives and the differences …

In this article, I describe and analyse some of the literacy events and practices taking place
in a selection of multilingual early childhood (Reception Class and Grade 1) classrooms in …