ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the types of literacy events that occur between home, community, and school as well as the connections and disconnects. The use and value of literacy for learners—the available discourses, background knowledges, repertoires of practices and motivation structures for learning and using literacy—are as contingent on those extra-educational social relations and linguistic markets that they inhabit before, during, and after school. The elementary after-school program depends on volunteers primarily from the teacher education program at the nearby university. Due to budget cuts at the district level and a limited number of volunteers, less than half of the students at the elementary school were able to participate in the program. Church services and activities associated with church proved to be an important sociotextual domain for various literacy practices. Many participants were involved in several groups associated with church and had parents actively involved in their churches.
