Publication Date
4-2026
Abstract
This article builds on existing scholarship by analyzing the use of home visits as a tool to learn about families’ funds of knowledge—their viewpoints, beliefs, and critical understandings—while also examining families’ own complex views of their linguistic and cultural assets. Through the lens of culturally sustaining pedagogy, the article discusses how home visits were used as a family/school partnership practice that celebrated and built on first grade students’ unique cultural and linguistic assets, as well as how families’ insights were shared with and taken up by first-grade students through classroom activities and projects.
Recommended Citation
McCreight, J. (2026). Home Visits as Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy: A First-Grade Classroom Community Learns From Families’ Shared Assets and Challenges. Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts, 65 (1). Retrieved from https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/reading_horizons/vol65/iss1/4
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