The following is a guide to information, including books, av materials, journal articles and websites available through the Library Resource Centre at Library Support Services in the Winnipeg School Division on "Social Aspects of Literacy." If you wish to obtain any of the information, please call the Library Resource Centre at 788-0203 ext. 143, or come down and visit our library. We are located in the Prince Charles Educational Resource Centre at 1075 Wellington Avenue.

302.2244/UNF
Snow, Catherine E. Unfulfilled expectations : home and school influences on literacy. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, c1991. 251 p. : ill.

370/KOZ
Kozol, Jonathan. Illiterate America. New York : New American Library, c1985. xvii, 270 p.

370.19/TAY
Taylor, Denny. Growing up literate : learning from inner-city families. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c1988. xx, 234 p. : ill.

371.1/FRE
Shor, Ira. Freire for the classroom : a sourcebook for liberatory teaching. Portsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook, c1987. 237 p. : ill.

371.9/RIS
Allen, JoBeth. Risk makers, risk takers, risk breakers : reducing the risks for young literacy learners. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann Educational Books, c1989. xix, 351 p.

371.96/ALL
Allen, JoBeth. Engaging children : community and chaos in the lives of young literacy learners. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c1993. xii, 271 p. : ill.

372/BOO
Bookmates : an emergent literacy program : volunteer orientation manual. Winnipeg : Winnipeg Core Area Initiative ; Winnipeg Public Library, c1987. 1 v.

372.4/FLE
Flesch, Rudolf. Why Johnny still can't read : a new look at the scandal of our schools. Harper & row, [1983, c 1981]. 191 p.

372.60973/NOQ
Allington, Richard L. No quick fix : rethinking literacy programs in America's elementary schools. New York : Teachers College Press, c1995. ix, 278 p. : ill.

428/WAL
Wallace, Catherine. Learning to read in a multicultural society : the social context of second language literacy. Prentice Hall, c1988. xii, 212 p. : ill. -- (Language teaching methodology series).

379.71/IFI
Unruh, Daile. If I had the words. Winnipeg : Vehicles for Social Change, c1987. 1 videocassette (25 min.). : sd., col.

SUMMARY: Examines the problem of teenage illiteracy through the lives of three young people. Norma, 16, is a single mother ; Robert, 17, attends school, but is functionally illiterate, and Audra, 13, whose parents recognize her literacy problems early.

Brandt, Deborah. "Accumulating literacy : writing and learning to write in the twentieth century." College English v 57 p 649-68 October '95.

Elish-Piper, Laurie. "Literacy and their lives : four low-income families enrolled in a summer family literacy program." Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy v 40 p 256-68 December '96/January '97.

Fagan, William T. "Social relationships of literacy." The Reading Teacher v 49 p 260-2 November '95.

Leu, Donald J. "Sarah's secret : social aspects of literacy and learning in a digital information age." The Reading Teacher v 50 p 162-4 October '96.

Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich. "Literacy as a gendered social practice : tasks, texts, talk, and take-up." Reading Research Quarterly v 30 p 674-708 October/November/December '95.

http://www.whitehurst.sbs.sunysb.edu/pubs/aera96/index.htm
This is an online slide show on the topic of "social class and emergent literacy".

http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/Report2/REP15-01.HTM
This is a paper written by the National Centre for Education Statistics in December, 1993. It is titled "Adult Literacy in America". Although it is a U.S. based paper, it still has some very useful information.