Articles, chapters in books, papers, and forewords
2012. Seeing our way into learning science in informal environments.  In Research on schools, neighborhoods, and communities:  Toward civic responsibility. W. F. Tate, Ed. Published for the American Educational Research Association. New York:  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Pp. 249-267.
2011. Language socialization in art and science.  In The handbook of language socialization. A. Duranti, E. Ochs, & B. Schieffelin, eds.  London:  Blackwell Publishers. Pp. 425-442.
2011. (with Diane Lapp and Judith Langer).  Changing Literacies for Changing Times: A History of Research Experiences and Possibilities from the Reading Hall of Fame.  Yetta Goodman & James Hoffman, eds.  New York:  Routledge (in collaboration with the International Reading Association).
2011.  Narratives and metaphors of the middle.  Genre 44.3:193-300.
2011.  New love, long love:  Keeping social justice and ethnography of education in mind.  Anthropology and Education Quarterly 41.4: 397-403.
2011.  Foreword.  In Literacy myths, legacies, & lessons:  New studies on literacyHarvey Graff.  New Brunswick, NJ:  Transaction Press. Pp. ix-xii.
2011.  Afterword.  In Bedtime stories and book reports:  Connecting parent involvement and family literacy. Eds.  Catherine Compton-Lilly and Stuart Greene.  New York:  Teachers College Press. Pp. 145-151.
2011.  The Book as Home?  It all depends.  In Handbook of research on children’s and young adult literature.  Shelby A. Wolf, Karen Coats, Patricia Enciso, & Christine Jenkins, eds. New York:  Routledge. Pp. 32-47.
2010. Family literacy or community learning? Some critical questions on perspective. In Bringing literacy home. Eds. Kailonnie Dunsmore & Douglas Fisher. Newark, DE: International Reading Association. Pp. 15-41. (PDF Available)


2009. The deeper game: Intuition, imagination and embodiment. In Acts of reading: Teachers, text and childhood. Eds. Morag Styles & Evelyn Arizpe. Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books. Pp. 43-58.
2008. Foreword. In Content-area conversations: How to plan discussion-based lessons for diverse language learners. Eds. Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, & Carol Rothenberg. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
2008. Foreword. Children and multilingualism: Indigenous language use at home and school. Eds. Jane Simpson & Gillian Wigglesworth. London, Continuum International. Pp. ix-xiii.
2008. (with R. Wollach). Vision for Learning: History, theory, and affirmation. In Eds. James Flood, Shirley Brice Heath, & Diane Lapp. Handbook for Literacy Educators: Research in the Visual and Communicative Arts. Vol. 2. N.Y.: Lawrence Erlbaum. Pp. 3-12. (PDF Available)
2008. Language Socialization in the Learning Communities of Adolescents. In Language Socialization, Vol. 8, Encyclopedia of Language and Education. 2nd. Ed. Eds. Patricia Duff & Nancy Hornberger. New York: Springer. Pp. 217-230. (PDF Available)
2006. (with Evelyn Arizpe and Morag Styles) Child's Play for Private and Public Life. In Reading Lessons from the Eighteenth Century: Mothers, children, and texts. Shenstone, Lichfield, Staffordshire: Pied Piper Press. Pp. 179-207. (PDF Available) (Table of Contents, Copyright)
2006. Dynamics of Completion: Gaps, blanks, and improvisation. In The Artful Mind. Ed. Mark Turner. Oxford University Press. Pp. 133-152.
2005. Foreword. Multicultural Strategies for Education and Social Change. Arnetha F. Ball. New York: Teachers College Press. Pp. xvii-xxiii.
2005. Learning more than you Know in Youth Drama. Youth Drama Ireland.
2005. (with Shelby Wolf). Focus in Creative Learning: Drawing on Art for Language Development. Literacy [formerly Reading, Literacy, and Language, journal of United Kingdom Literacy Association]. Pp.38-45.
2005. Strategic thinking, learning environments, and real roles. Human Development. 48:350-355.
2004. Learning language and strategic thinking through the arts. Reading Research Quarterly. 39/3:8-12.
2004. (with Claire Kramsch). Individuals, institutions, and the uses of literacy. Special Feature: Claire Kramsch and Shirley Brice Heath in conversation. Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1.1:75-94.
2004 (with Elke Boehncke). Platforms for Youth Responsibility: Ways of studying learning between the lines. En vänbok till Birgitta Qvarsell. Pedagogik som vetenskap. Eds. Agnieskzka Bron & Anders Gustavsson. Stockholm: Stockholm University. Pp. 190-213.
2004. (with Ken Robinson). Making a Way: Youth arts and learning in International Perspective. In Putting the Arts in the Picture: Reframing education in the 21st Century. Eds. Nick Rabkin & Robin Redmond. Chicago: Center for Arts Policy, Columbia College. Pp. 107-126.
2004. Risks, Rules, and Roles: Youth Perspectives on the work of learning for Community Development. In Joining Society: Social interaction and learning in adolescence and youth. Eds. A.N. Perret-Clermont, C. Pontecorvo, L. B. Resnick, T. Zittoun, & B. Burge. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 41-70.
2003. (with Ehud Krauss). To Be a Better Teacher. Animated. (National Foundation for Dance, England)
2002. Working with Community. In Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs. Greg Dees, Judd Emerson, & Peter Economy. New York: John Wiley. Pp. 204-243.
2002. Foreword. School's Out! Literacy and learning outside of school. Eds. Glynda Hull & Kathy Schultz. New York: Teachers College Press.
2001. Three's not a crowd: Plans, roles, and focus in the arts. Educational Researcher 30.3:1-7.
2000. (with Linda Flower). Drawing on the Local: Collaboration and community expertise. Language and Learning across the Disciplines (4.3:42-53).
2000. Making Learning Work. After School Matters 1.1:33-45. (PDF Available)
2000. "Island by island we must go across": Challenges from language and culture among African Americans. In African-centered Schooling: From theory to practice. Eds. Diane Pollard and Cheryl Ajirotutu Westwood, CN: Greenwood Press. Pp. 163-186.
2000. Risk, Rules, and Roles: Youth perspectives on the work of learning for community development. Zeitschrift fur Erziehungswissenschaft. 1.00:67-80. [Reprinted in Perret-Clermont, et al 2004].
2000. Seeing our Way into Learning. Cambridge Journal of Education 30.1:121-132.
2000. Linguistics in the Study of Language in Education. Harvard Educational Review 70.1:49-59.
2000. Essay Review of Everyday Courage: The lives and stories of urban teenagers, by Niobe Way. Human Development 42.6:376-382.


1999. Foreword. From Classroom to Boardroom. A. Beaufort. New York: Teachers College Press. Pp. v-viii.
1999. Discipline and Disciplines in Education Research: Elusive goals? In Issues in Education Research: Problems and Possibilities. Eds. Ellen C. Lagemann & Lee S. Shulman. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass Publishers. Pp. 203-223.
1999. (with Adelma A. Roach). Imaginative Actuality: Learning in the arts during the nonschool hours. In Champions of Change. The Arts Education Partnership and The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Pp. 19-34. (PDF Available)
1999. Dimensions of Language Development. In Cultural Processes of Child Development (Vol. 29). Ed. Ann S. Masten. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers. Pp. 59-75.
1999. (With Adelma A. Roach, et al.) Leadership Giftedness: Models Revisited. Gifted Child Quarterly 43.1:13-24.
1999. Literacy and Social practice. In Literacy: An International Handbook. Daniel A. Wagner, Richard L. Venezky, & Brian V. Street, eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Pp. 102-106.
1999. (with Jennifer Massen). When Resolution Comes in Stages: How Drama Makes Good Use of Conflict. In B. J. Wagner ed., Building Moral Communities through Educational Drama. Stamford, CT: Ablex. Pp. 91-112.
1998. Working through Language. In Kids Talk: Strategic language use in later childhood. Ed. Susan Hoyle and Carolyn T. Adger. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 217-240. (PDF Available)
1998. (With Elisabeth Soep). Youth Development and the Arts in Nonschool Hours. Grantmakers in the Arts 9.1:9-16, 32). (PDF Available)
1998. (with Elisabeth Soep & Adelma Roach). Living the Arts through Language+learning. Americans for the Arts: Monograph. (November) 2.7:1-18. (PDF Available)
1998. (With Shelby A. Wolf). Wondrous Words: Young children's rewriting of prose and poetry. In The New Advocate 11.4:291-310.
1997. The Essay in English: Readers and writers in dialogue. In Dialogue and Critical Discourse: Language, Culture, Critical Theory. Ed. Michael Macovski. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 195-214. (PDF Available)
1997. Culture: Contested realm in research on children and youth. Applied Developmental Science 1.3:113-123. (PDF Available)
1997. Child's Play or Finding the Ephemera of Home. In Opening the Nursery Door: Reading, writing and childhood 1600-1900. Eds. Mary Hilton, Morag Styles, & Victor Watson. London: Routledge Press. Pp. 17-31. (PDF Available)
1996. Work, Class, and Categories: Dilemmas of Identity. In Composition in the 21st Century: Crisis and Change. Eds. Don Daikur, Ed White, & Lynn Z. Bloom. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois Press. Pp. 226-242.
1996. Re-creating Literature in the ESL Classroom. TESOL Quarterly 30.4:776-779.
1996. Ruling Places: Adaptation in development by inner-city youth. In Ethnographic in Approaches to the Study of Human Development. Eds. Richard Shweder, Richard Jessor, and Anne Colby. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press. Pp. 225-251.
1996. Re-creating Literature in the ESL Classroom. TESOL Quarterly 30.4:776-779.
1996. Good Science or Good Art? Or Both? In Challenging Ways of Knowing: In English Mathematics and Science. Eds. Dave Baker, John Clay, & Carol Fox. London: Falmer Press. Pp. 13-18.
1996. Talking Work: Language among teens. In SALSA #4. Eds. A. Chu, A-M. P. Guerra, C. Tetreault. Texas: UTAustin. Pp. 27-45.
1995. (with Steve Athanases). Ethnography in the Study of the Teaching and Learning of English. Research in the Teaching of English. 20.3:263-287.
1995. Foreword. The Labyrinths of Literacy: Reflections on literacy past and present. Harvey J. Graff. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press. Pp. vii-xxxiii.
1995. Race, Ethnicity, and the Defiance of Categories. In Toward a Common Destiny: Educational perspectives on improving race and ethnic relations. Eds. Willis D. Hawley & Anthony Jackson. San Francisco: Jossey Bass. Pp. 39-70.
1995. Ethnography in Communities: Learning the everyday life of America's subordinated youth. In Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education. James Banks, ed. New York: Macmillan. Pp. 114-128. (PDF Available)
1994. The Literate and the Literary: African American writers as readers--1830-1940. Written Communication, Vol. 11, No. 4 (October 1994): 419-444.
1994. Stories as Ways of Acting Together. In The Need for Story: Cultural diversity in classroom and community. Eds. Anne Haas Dyson & Celia Genishi. Champaign, IL: National Council of Teachers of English. Pp. 206-220.
1994. (with Milbrey W. McLaughlin). The Best of Both Worlds: Connecting schools and community youth organizations for all-day, all-year learning. Educational Administration Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 3 (August 1994): 278-300. [
1994. The Project of Learning from the Inner-city Reprinted in Coordination among Schools, Families, and Communities: Prospects for educational reform. Eds. J. G. Cibulka & W. J. Kritck. Albany: State University of New York. 1996. Pp. 69-94.]Youth Perspective. Promoting Community-based Programs for Socialization and Learning. No. 63, New Directions for Child Development. Eds. Francisco A. Villarruel & Richard M. Lerner. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers. Pp. 25-34.
1994. Finding in History the Right to Estimate. College Composition and Communication.Vol. 45, No. 1 (February 1994): 97-102.
1994. Play for Identity: Where the mind is everyday for inner-city youth. In Creating Powerful Thinking in Teachers and Students: Diverse Perspectives. Eds. J. N. Manigieri & Cathy Collins Block. New York: Harcourt Brace. Pp. 215-228.
1994. (with Juliet Langman). Shared thinking and the register of coaching. In Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register. D. Biber and E. Finegan, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 82-105. (PDF Available)
1994. (with Milbrey W. McLaughlin). Learning for Anything Everyday. Journal of Curriculum Studies. Pp. 549-567. [Reprinted 2006 in I. Westbury & G. Milburn, eds. Rethinking Schooling. New York: Routledge. Pp. 299-319.]
1993. Rethinking the Sense of the Past: The Essay as Legacy of the Epigram. In Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing: Rethinking the Discipline. Lee Odell, ed. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. Pp. 105-131.
1993. Commentary. Guided Participation in Cultural Activity by Toddlers and Caregivers. B. Rogoff, J. Mistry, A. Goncu, and C. Mosier. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. Vol.58, No.8:175-179.
1993. (with Shelby A. Wolf). The Net of Story. In The Horn Book. November/December. Pp. 705-713.
1993. Foreword. The Discovery of Competence: Teaching and learning with diverse student writers. E. Kutz, S.Q. Groden, and V. Zamel. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Boynton/Cook Publishers, Inc. Pp. vii-ix.
1993. The Madness(es) of Reading and Writing Ethnography. In Anthropology and Education Quarterly. 24.3: 256-268. (PDF Available)
1993. Agnes Repplier and Writing as Trial [separately published for the Distinguished Lecturer Series]. Bloomington, Indiana: Institute for Advanced Study at Indiana University. Pp.1-19.
1993. Comments on "This Hard Rock": A readiness not to explain. In Fire in the Eyes of Youth: The humanities in American education. Randolph Jennings, ed. St. Paul: Occasional Press. Pp.117-120.
1993. (with Arnetha Ball). Dances of Identity: Finding an ethnic self in the arts. In Identity and Inner-City Youth: Beyond ethnicity and gender. Eds. Shirley Brice Heath & Milbrey W. McLaughlin. New York: Teachers College Press. Pp.69-93.
1993. (with Milbrey W. McLaughlin). Building Identities for Inner-City Youth. In Identity and Inner-City Youth: Beyond ethnicity and gender. Eds. Shirley Brice Heath & Milbrey W. McLaughlin. New York: Teachers College Press. Pp.1-12.
1993. (with Milbrey W. McLaughlin). Ethnicity and Gender in Theory and Practice. In Identity and Inner-City Youth: Beyond ethnicity and gender. Eds. Shirley Brice Heath & Milbrey W. McLaughlin. New York: Teachers College Press. Pp.13-35.
1993. (with Milbrey W. McLaughlin). Casting the Self: Frames for identity and dilemmas for policy. In Identity and Inner-City Youth: Beyond ethnicity and gender. Ede. Shirley Brice Heath & Milbrey W. McLaughlin. New York: Teachers College Press. Pp.210-239.
1993. Inner-City Life through Drama: Imagining the language classroom. In TESOL Quarterly. 27.2: 177-192.
1992. History of Literacy. In Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. William Bright, ed. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp.1331-1336.
1992. Foreword. Diversity as Resource: Redefining cultural literacy. Ed. Denise Murray. Washington, DC: TESOL.
1991. (with Shelby A. Wolf). Acting Meaning: The play of reading. In Proceedings: 38th Annual Conference on Literacy. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh. Pp.1-14.
1991. (With Milbrey W. McLaughlin). Community Organizations as Family. Phi Delta Kappan. April. Pp. 623-627.
1991. It's About Winning! The language of knowledge in baseball. In monograph Perspectives on Socially Shared Cognition. Eds. L. Resnick, J. Levine, and S. Teasley. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. Pp.101-124. (PDF Available)
1991. Whole Language: Promise and challenge. The Whole Language Catalog. Eds. K. and Y. Goodman, L. Bridges Bird. New York: Macmillan/McGraw Hill. Pp. 422.
1991. The Sense of Being Literate: Historical and cross-cultural features. In Handbook of Reading Research, Volume II. Eds. R. Barr, M. L. Kamil, P. Mosenthal, & P. David Pearson. NY: Longman Publishing Group. Pp.3-25.
1990. La sociolingüística y la planificación. Winak: Boletin Intercultural. 5.4:196-206.
1990. Women in Conversation: Covert models in American language ideology. In Language, Society, and Thought: Essays in honor of Joshua A. Fishman's 65th birthday. Eds. Robert Cooper & Bernard Spolsk. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co. Pp.202-222.
1990. The Fourth Vision: Literate language at work. In The Right to Literacy. Eds. Andrea A. Lunsford, Helen Moglen, & James Slevin. New York: Modern Language Association. Pp.288-306.
1990. The Children of Trackton's Children: Spoken and written language in social change. In Cultural Psychology: The Chicago Symposia on Human Development. Eds. James W. Stigler, Richard A. Shweder, & Gil S. Herdt. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp.496-519. [Reprinted 1994 in Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading. Eds. Robert R. Ruddell, Martha Rapp Ruddell, & Harry Singer. Delaware: International Reading Association.]


1989. It's About Winning! The language of knowledge in baseball. Ethnographic Approaches to Children's Worlds and Peer Cultures. Ed. Sigurd Berentzen. Trondheim, Norway: Norwegian Centre for Child Research. Pp. 382-439.
1989. Foreword, Becoming a Whole Language School. Ed. Lois Bridges Bird. Katonah, NY: Richard Owens, Publisher. Pp. xv-xix.
1989. (With Milbrey Wallin McLaughlin) Rethinking Policies for Children with Multiple Needs. In California's Children: A survey of needs. Ed. Michael Kirst. Berkeley: Policy Analysis for California Education. Pp.305-319
1989. Talking the text in teaching composition. In Language, Authority, and Criticism: Readings on the school textbook. Eds. Suzanne de Castell, A. & Carmen Luke. London/Philadelphia: Falmer Press Ltd. Pp. 109-122.
1989 The Learner as Cultural Member. In The Teachability of Language. Eds. Mabel Rice & Richard Schiefelbusch. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brook Press. Pp. 333-350.
1989 Oral and Literate Traditions among Black Americans living in Poverty. American Psychologist. [Special issue on Psychology and Children: Current Research and practice]. 44.2:1-7. Reprinted, 1992, in Readings and Writings in the Politics of Literacy. Heinemann Educational Books.]
1989. Language Ideology. In International Encyclopedia of Communications. New York: Oxford University Press.
1988. Language Socialization. In Black Children and Poverty. Ed. D. Slaughter. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Pp. 29-41.
1988. Foreword, Culture and Language Development: Language acquisition and language socialization in a Samoan village by Elinor Ochs. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. Pp. vii-xiii.
1987. (With Milbrey Wallin McLaughlin) A Child Resource Policy: Moving beyond dependence on school and family. In Phi Delta Kappan. April:576-580. [Reprinted in The Education Digest. October 1987:19-21].
1987. (With Charles A. Ferguson). Foreword, Ideology, Society and Language: The odyssey of Nathan Birnbaum by Joshua Fishman. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America.
1987. Foreword, The Labyrinths of Literacy: Reflections on literacy past and present by Harvey J. Graff. London: The Falmer Press. Pp. vii-ix.
1987. The Literate Essay: Using ethnography to explode myths. In Language, Literacy and Culture: Issues of society and school. Ed. J. Langer. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Press. Pp. 89-107.
1986. Taking a Cross-Cultural Look at Narratives. In Topics in Language Disorders. Ed. F. Kuecker. Rockville, MD: Aspen Publishers, Inc. Pp. 84-94.
1986. Literacy and Language Change. In Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1985. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press. Pp. 282-293.
1986. The Cross-Cultural Study of Language Acquisition. In Papers and Reports in Child Language Development. Stanford, CA: Stanford University. Vol. 24. Pp. 1-21.
1986. Separating `things of the imagination' from Life: Learning to read and write. In Emergent Literacy. Eds. W. Teale and E. Sulzby. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Co. Pp. 156-172.
1986 (With Amanda Branscombe and Charlene Thomas) The Book as Narrative Prop in Language Acquisition. In The Acquisition of Literacy: Ethnographic perspectives. Eds. Bambi Schieffelin & Perry Gilmore. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Co. Pp. 16-34. (PDF Available)
1986. Sociocultural Contexts of Language Development. Beyond Language: Social and cultural factors in schooling language minority students. Los Angeles: CA. Evaluation, Dissemination and Assessment Center. Pp. 143-186. [Reprinted 1991 in Content-Area Teaching in the Multicultural Classroom. P. Richard-Amato and M. A. Snow, eds.]
1986. Critical Factors in Literacy Development. In Literacy, Society, and Schooling. Eds. Kieran Egan, Suzanne de Castell, & Allan Luke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 209-229. (PDF Available)
1985. (With Amanda Branscombe) Intelligent Writing in an Audience Community: Teacher, Students, and Researcher. In The Acquisition of Written Language: Revision and response. Ed. Sarah W. Freedman. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Co. Pp. 3-32.
1985. (With Hey-Kyeong Chin). Narrative Play in Second-Language Learning. In Play, language and stories. Eds. Lee Galda & Anthony D. Pellegrin. Ablex Publishing Co. Pp. 147-166.
1985. Literacy or Literate Skills? Consideration for ESL/EFL learners. In On TESOL `84. P. Larson, ed. Washington, DC: TESOL. Pp. 14-28.
1985. Language Policy. In International Encyclopedia of Education. New York: Praeger Press. Pp. 2898-2907.
1985. Language Policies: Patterns of retention and maintenance. In Mexican-Americans in Comparative Perspective. Ed. W. Connor. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute Press. Pp. 257-282.
1985. Review Essay: A search for shared background. Harvard Educational Review. 55.4:443-447.
1985. Being literate in America: A sociohistorical perspective. In Yearbook, National Reading Conference. Eds. J. Niles & R. Lalik. Rochester, NY: NRC. Np.
1984. (With Charlene Thomas). The Achievement of Preschool Literacy for Mother and Child. In Awakening to Literacy. Eds. H. Goelman, A. Oberg, & F. Smith. Exeter, NH: Heinemann Educational Books. Pp. 51-72. [Reprinted in 1992 in Reading Empirical Research Studies: The rhetoric of research. Eds. J.R. Hayes and R.E. Young. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc. Pp. 177-208, with author's comment, pp. 208-210.]
1984. Linguistics and Education. Annual Review of Anthropology. B. Siegel, ed. Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, Inc. Pp. 251-274.
1984. Oral and Literate Traditions. International Social Science Journal UNESCO 99.1:41-58.
1983. A Lot of Talk about Nothing: Preparation for literacy? In Language Arts 60.8:999-1007. [Reprinted 1990 in Literacy In Process. B. Miller Power and R. Hubbard, eds. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Educational Books.] Pp. 79-87.
1986. (With Lawrence Krasner). Comment. International Journal of Sociology of Language. 60:157-162.
1983. Language Beyond the Classroom. In the First Delaware Symposium on Language Studies. Eds. R.J. Di Pietro, W. Frawley, & A. Wedel. Newark: University of Delaware Press. Pp. 45-58.
1983. Language Policies. Society 20.4:56-63.
1983. (With Frederick Mandabach) Language Status Decisions and the Law in the United States. In Progress in Language Planning: International perspectives.Eds. Juan Cobarrubias & J. Fishman. The Hague: Mouton. Pp. 87-106.
1982. Ethnography in Education: Toward Defining the Essentials. In Ethnography and Education: Children in and out of school. Eds. Perry Gilmore & Alan Glatthorn. Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics, Pp. 33-55.
1982. Protean shapes in literacy events: Ever-shifting oral and literate traditions. In Spoken and Written Language: Exploring orality and literacy. Ed. Deborah Tannen. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Co. Pp. 91-118. [Reprinted in 1988 in Perspectives on Literacy. Eds. E.R. Kintgen, B.M. Kroll,& M. Rose.] Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press Pp.348-370.].
1982. Questioning at Home and at School: A comparative study. In Doing the Ethnography of Schooling. Ed. George Spindler. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Pp.102-131. [Reissued 1988 by G. Spindler, ed. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, Inc. Pp. 102-131].
1982. Toward an ethnohistory of writing in American education. In Writing: The nature, development, and teaching of written communication. Vol. 1, Variation in Writing: Functional and linguistic-cultural Differences. Ed. M. Farr Whiteman. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc. Pp. 25-46.
1982. What no Bedtime Story Means: Narrative skills at home and at school. In Language and Society. 11.2:49-76. [Reprinted 1986 in Language Socialization Across Cultures. Eds. Bambi B. Schieffelin & Elinor Ochs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 97-124. Reprinted 1987 in Towards Multicultural Awareness. Jaime Wurzel, ed. Boston University: Inter-Cultural Press. In 1989, partial reprinting for a correspondence course in English (and in Braille and sound recording for the blind). Exploring Educational Issues. United Kingdom: The Open University. Reprinted 1994 in Language and Literacy in Social Practice. Ed. Janet Maybin. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, Ltd. Pp.73-95.] (PDF Available)
1982. (With Richard Laprade) Castilian Colonization and Indigenous Languages: The cases of Quechua and Aymara. In Language Spread: Studies in diffusion and social change. Ed. R. L. Cooper. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Pp. 118-147.
1982. American English: Quest for a model. In The Other Tongue: English across cultures. Ed. Braj B. Kachru. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Pp. 237-250.
1981. Oral and Literate Traditions--Endless Linkages. In Moving Between Practice and Research in Writing. Eds. Ann Humes, et al. Los Alamitos, CA: SWRL. Pp. 19-34.
1981. (With Brian Sutton-Smith) Paradigms of Pretense. In Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. July 1981, Vol. 3, No. 3, Pp. 41-45.
1981. English in our Language Heritage. In Language in the USA. Eds. Charles A. Ferguson & Shirley Brice Heath. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 40-63.
1981. Standard English: Biography of a symbol. In Standards and Dialects in English. Eds. Timothy Shopen & Joseph Williams. Cambridge, MA: Winthrop Publishers, Inc. Pp. 3-33. [Reprinted in 1986 in The Story of English, Eds. J. McKay, S. Cosmos. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co. Pp. 218-233].
1981. (With Charles A. Ferguson) TESOL and Language in American Life. In On TESOL`80 Building Bridges: Research and practice in teaching English as a second language. Eds. J.C. Fisher, M.A. Clarke, & J. Schacter. Washington, D.C.: TESOL.
1980. The Functions and Uses of Literacy. In Journal of Communication. 29.2:123-33. [Reprinted 1986 in Literacy, Society and Schooling. Eds. Kieran Egan, Suzanne de Castell, & Allan Luke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 15-26].


1979. The Context of Professional Languages: An historical overview for medicine. In Monograph Series on Language and Linguistics. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. Pp. 102-118.
1978. Bilingual Education and a National Language Policy. In Monograph Series on Language and Linguistics. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. Pp. 53-66.
1978. Teacher Talk: Language in the classroom. Arlington, VA: Center for Applied Linguistics/ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics. Language in Education Series 9. Pp. 26.
1978. (As consultant with L. Leann Parker) Bilingual Education: Current Perspectives. Bilingual Education: Current Perspectives. Volume 5. Arlington, VA.: Center for Applied Linguistics. Pp. 62.
1978. Social History and Sociolinguistics. The American Sociologist, Volume 13. Pp. 84-92.
1977. Our Language Heritage: A historical perspective. In The Language Connection. Ed. J. K. Phillips. Skokie, IL: National Textbook Company. Pp. 23-51.
1977. Language and Politics in the United States. In Monograph Series on Language and Linguistics. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. Pp. 267-296.
1976. A National Language Academy: Debate in the new nation. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Volume 11. Pp. 9-44.
1976. Colonial Language Status Achievement: Mexico, Peru, and the United States. In Language in Sociology. Eds. A. Verdoodt and R. Kjolseth. Institut de Linguistique de Louvain: Editions Peeters. Pp. 49-93.