A study of how children acquire literacy, viewing literacy acquisition as a socially constructed process.

1. The social construction of literacy Jenny Cook-Gumperz; 2. Literacy and schooling: an unchanging equation? Jenny Cook-Gumperz; 3. Interactional sociolinguistics in the study of schooling John J. Gumperz and Jenny Cook-Gumperz; 4. The language experience of children at home and at school Gordon Wells; 5. Narrative presentations: an oral preparation for literacy with first graders Sarah Michaels; 6. Differential instructions in reading groups James Collins; 7. Organizational constraints on reading group mobility Donna Eder; 8. Developing mathematical literacy in a bilingual classroom Douglas R. Campbell; 9. Spoken language strategies and reading acquisition Herbert D. Simons and Sandra Murphy; 10. Speaking and writing: discourse strategies and the acquisition of literacy James Collins and Sarah Michaels; 11. The implicit discourse genres of standardized testing: what verbal analogy items require of test makers M. C. O'Connor.