Teaching Black Children to Read. Urban Language Series, Number 4 [electronic resource] / Joan C. Baratz, Ed. and Roger W. Shuy, Ed.

This fourth book in the Urban Language Series is concerned with the relationship of language to reading. Literacy must be based on the language the child actually uses. In the case of ghetto children, materials in their dialect must be prepared so that their task of associating sounds and words with...

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