Introduction / Maria de la Luz Reyes and John J. Halcon
Pt. I. Sociocultural, Sociohistorical, and Sociopolitical Context of Literacy
1. Diversity of Schooling: A Cultural-Historical Approach / Luis C. Moll
2. Teacher as Sociocultural, Sociohistorical Mediator: Teaching to the Potential / Esteban Diaz and Barbara Flores
3. Need for Educators with Political and Ideological Clarity: Providing Our Children with "The Best" / Lilia I. Bartolome and Maria V. Balderrama
4. Mainstream Ideology and Literacy Instruction for Spanish-Speaking Children / John J. Halcon
Pt. II. Biliteracy, Hybridity, and other Literacies
5. Starting Off Right: Planting the Seeds for Biliteracy / Maria Echiburu Berzins and Alice E. Lopez
6. Unleashing Possibilities: Biliteracy in the Primary Grades / Maria de la Luz Reyes
7. Literacy as Hybridity: Moving Beyond Bilingualism in Urban Classrooms / Kris D. Gutierrez, Patricia Baquedano-Lopez and Hector H. Alvarez
8. Hooked on Writing: Linking Literacy to Students' Lived Experiences / Eloise Andrade Laliberty
Pt. III. Reading the Word by Reading the World
9. Strategic Reading for Language-Related Disabilities: The Case of a Bilingual Latina Student / Robert T. Jimenez
10. Reflections on the Power of Spanish: Confessions from the Field / Carmen I. Mercado
11. Reading Adolescents/Adolescents Reading: Toward Critically Literate Latino Youth / Roberta Maldonado
12. Literacy Development of Latino Students: Using Our Present Realities to Shape Our Futures / Bobbi Ciriza Houtchens
13. It's About YOUth!: Chicano High School Students Revisioning Their Academic Identity / Maria E. Franquiz
14. Parent Narratives: The Cultural Bridge Between Latino Parents and Their Children / Alma Flor Ada and Rosa Zubizarreta
Afterword: Re/constructing a New Reality / Maria de la Luz Reyes.
