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This is a year long in-depth, longitudinal case study of Noa, a six-year-old female in a bilingual first grade class which documents and analyzes her literacy development in a multilingual setting. Data collection for the study includes: written artifacts, anecdotal records, inf…

Recent developments in literacy research indicate that literacy needs to be studied and understood in context as situated social practice. Moreover, it is argued that any account and investigation of literacy must draw on both social and linguistic theory. Many literacy studies …

Individual differences in early literacy skills can be attributed to children's previous history of emergent literacy experiences during their preschool years. The purpose of this qualitative study was to learn about the emergent literacy experiences of one Libyan American presc…