"Miguel es un artista"—and Luisa is an excellent student: Seeking time and space for children's multimodal practices. (September 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Falchi, Lorraine T; Axelrod, Ysaaca; Genishi, Celia
• Is Part Of: Journal of early childhood literacy. Volume 14:Number 3(2014:Sep.)
• Page Start: 345
• Page End: 366
• Publication Date: 2014-09
• Subjects: bilingual children -- childhood -- children's writing -- classroom ethnography -- Latina/Latino children -- multimodality -- sociocultural theory -- literacy curriculum -- literacy development -- language development; Literacy -- Periodicals; Reading (Early childhood) -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; 372.6
• DOI: 10.1177/1468798413501185
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1468-7984

Abstract

This paper draws data from a 5-year ethnographic study of young multilingual (Mixteco/Spanish/English) children in their early childhood classrooms. In this paper, we focus on two of the children and their distinctive paths as they develop language and literacy. Using a sociocultural and multimodal theoretical framework we examine how these two children participate in and negotiate a balanced literacy curriculum.