More Than Words

Child-Centered Lessons for Connecting Life and Literacy
8.5 x 11", 241 pages

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Except from
More Than Words, Child-Centered Lessons
for Connecting Life and Literacy
(Zephyr Press, 1995), chapter 2, Writing and
Inventing in Stereo, pages 18-19:

I have heard teachers from the mainstream culture talking about parents, often — it’s their third favorite topic after kids and principals. “What is the matter with these parents?” they tend to explode. “Susannah (or Peter or Darryl or Lanisha or Suzette or Maria) says her mom and dad Never read to her! What am I supposed to do?… The answer is, as it always has been, begin where the child is and take (leading, nudging, pushing, pulling, and teaching) him or her as far as possible in the time you have together.