Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Chapter 1. Determining the Sources of Literacy 1
4. Chapter 2. The Children, Neighborhoods, Schools, Classrooms, and Families 13
5. Chapter 3. Methods of Data Collection 44
6. Chapter 4. The Family as Educator 59
7. Chapter 5. The Resilient Family 87
8. Chapter 6. Parent-School Partnership 116
9. Chapter 7. Reading Comprehension and the Relation of Home to School Factors 143
10. Chapter 8. Implications for Practice and Research 163
11. Chapter 9. Epilogue: Four Years Later 179
12. Appendixes. References. Acknowledgments. Index
13. Appendix 1. Number of subjects for which various categories of data are available 216
14. Appendix 2. Diary and checklists 218
15. Appendix 3. Correlations between school variables and three literacy outcome variables 222
16. Appendix 4. Correlations between home factors and literacy measures 224
17. References 229
18. Acknowledgments 241
19. Index 245