Shared Writing in the Support of Dyslexic Children from Different Cultural Backgrounds

I ntroduction Situated literacy Literacy is acquired in cultural and social settings, of which school is only one .. This means that literacy is to do with far more than texts : it is embedded in the cultural attitudes of the settings in which it is both acquired and used, as Taylor's ( 1 983) seminal work Family Literacy makes clear. These cultural attitudes will be responsible for the views of a family or community about issues such as education, behaviour, leisure, power, gender - which in turn determine the nature and uses of literacies by that family in the community.