Finding out about children’s literacies in family contexts: Vignettes from Wadestown Kindergarten

Abstract

Wadestown Kindergarten's Centre of Innovation project investigated multimodal literacies and their roles in communicative competence and meaning. This article explores the powerful insights into children's literacies that emerged from finding out about the “funds of knowledge” families hold about their child.

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Mitchell, L., Simonsen, Y., & Haggerty, M. (2009). Finding out about children’s literacies in family contexts: Vignettes from Wadestown Kindergarten. Early Childhood Folio, 13, 16–21. https://doi.org/10.18296/ecf.0184
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