Invisible Mediators of Literacy: Learning in Multicultural Communities

It is evident that the families with whom we were working…are active members of a print community in which literacy is used for a wide variety of social, technical, and aesthetic purposes, for a wide variety of audiences, and in a wide variety of situations…no one can deny that these are literate homes. (Taylor & Dorsey-Gaines, 1988, p. 20)