References Adkins, T. (2011). The English Effect on Amish Language and Literacy Practices. Community Literacy Journal. V 5, no 2 Atkinson, R. (1998). The Life Story Interview. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Bauman, R. (1992). Story, Performance and Event: Contextual Studies of Oral Narrative. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. Bishop, W. (1999). Ethnographic Writing Research. Portsmouth, NH:Heinemann. Bishop, W. (1992). I-Witnessing in Composition: Turning Ethnographic Data into Narratives. Rhetoric Review. Bleich, D. (1993). Éthnography and the Study of Literacy: Prospects for Socially Generous Research. In Anne Ruggles Gere, ed, Into the Field, Sites of Composition Studies, 176-192. New York, NY: The Modern Language Association of America. Brandt, D. (2001). Literacy in American Lives. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Bright, J. H. (2003). Meanwhile, Next Door to the Good Life. Bangor, ME: BrightBerry Press. Bruner, J. (2003). The Narrative Construction of Reality. In Mateas, Michael and Phoebe Sengers (Eds) Narrative Intelligence; Amsterdam: John Benjamins Cambre, M. and Hawkes, M. (2004). Toys, Tools and Teachers: The Challenges of Technology. Kanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Education. Carspecken, P. (1996). Critical Ethnography in Educational Research: A Theoretical and Practical Guide. New York, NY: Routledge. Caughey, J. (2006). Negotiating Cultures and Identities: Life History Issues, Methods and Readings. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press. Charmaz, K. (2006). Constructing Grounded Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Chiseri-Strater, E. (1991). Academic Literacies: The Public and Private Discourse of University Students. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook. Clark, M. (1975). Survival in the Field: Implications of Personal Experience in Field Work. Theory and Society. Clifford, J. (1983). On Ethnographic Authority. Representations. Coleman, M. (2011). This Life is in Your Hands. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers Creswell, John W. (2009). Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. 3rd ed. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. Cushman, E.; Kintgen, E.; Kroll, B.; & Rose, M. (2001). Literacy: A Critical Soucebook. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s DeBlasio, D; Ganzert, C.; Mould D.; Paschen, S.; Sacks, H. (2009). Catching Stories. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. Denzin, N. and Lincoln, Y. (2008). The Landscape of Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Duncan, L.G.; Coatsworth, J.D.; Greenberg, M.D. (2009). A Model of Mindful Parenting: Implications for Parent-Child Relationships and Previous Research. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review. Emerson, R.; Fretz, R.; and Shaw, L. (1995). Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Emerson, R. (1987). Four Ways to Improve the Craft of Fieldwork. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. Flower, L. (1988). The Construction of Purpose in Writing and Reading. College English. Gee, J.P. (1999). The New Literacy Studies and the ‘Social Turn.’ Gest, S. D.; Freeman, N.; Domitrovich, C.; Welsh, J. (2004). Shared Book Reading and Children’s Language Comprehensive Skills: The Moderating Role of Parental Discipline Practices. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. Glaser, B. and Strauss, A. (1967). The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for qualitative research. Chicago, IL: Observations Goggin, M.D. (2002). An Essamplaire Essai on the Rhetoricity of Needlework Sampler-Making: A Contribution to Theorizing and Historicizing Rhetorical Praxis. Rhetoric Review. Hall, S. and Moats, L. (2000). Why Reading to Children in Important. American Educator. Hamm, E.; Mistrett, S.; Ruffino, A. (2006). Play Outcomes and Satisfaction with Toys and Technology of Young Children with Special Needs. Journal of Special Education. Harris, J. (2006). Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts. UT: Utah State University Press. Hart, B. and Risley, T. (1995). Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experiences of Young American Children. Heath, S.B. (1983). Ways With Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Heath, S.B. (2012). Words at Work and Play. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Herrington, A. and Curtis, M. (2000). Persons in Process: Four Stories of Writing and Personal Development in College. Urbana, IL: NCTE. Hughes, E. (1960). The Place of Field Work in Social Science. In Buford H. Junker, Field Work: An Introduction to the Social Sciences. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Ishigaki, E. (1996). Young Childrens’ Communication and Self-Expression in the Technological Era. Early Childhood Development and Care v 119, 101-117. Kirsch, G. and Sullivan, P. (1992). Methods and Methodology in Composition Research. Southern Illinois University. Koutsouvanou, E. (1993). Television and Child Language Development. International Journal of Early Childhood v 25, n 1, 27-32. Kress, G. (2003). Literacy in the New Media Age. New York, NY: Routledge. Kress, G. (2010). Multimodality. New York, NY: Routledge. Lara-Cinisomo, S.; Pebley, A.; Vaiana, M.; Maggio, E. (2004). Are L.A.’s Children Ready for School? Chicago: RAND Corp. Linde, Charlotte. (1993). Life Stories: The Creation of Coherence. Oxford: Oxford University Press. MacNealy, M.S. (1999). Strategies for Empirical Research in Writing. New York, NY: Longman. Mackert, M. and Poag, M. (2011). Adult Basic Education and Health Literacy: Program Efforts and Perceived Student Needs. Community Literacy Journal. 05.2. 67-73. Mandelbaum, J. (1987). Couples Sharing Stories. Communication Quarterly, 35.2, 144-170. Meisels, S.J.; Marsden, D.; Stetson, C. (2000). Winning Ways to Learn, Ages 3,4 and 5: 600 Great Ideas for Children. Goddard Parenting Guides. Mutnick, D. (2007). Inscribing the World: Lessons from an Oral History Project in Brooklyn. College Composition and Communication, 58.4, 626-647. Retrieved from NCTE database. Nearing, S. and H.(1973). Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World. Schocken Books: Berlin. North, S.M. (1987). The Making of Knowledge in Composition: Portrait of an Emerging Field. Upper Montclair, N.J: Boynton/Cook Publishers. Owens, D. (2006). Teaching in Situ. Relations, Locations, Positions: Composition Theory for Writing Teachers. 363-370. Penrose, A. (2002). Academic Literacy Perceptions and Performance: Comparing First-Generation and Continuing Generation College Students. Research in the Teaching of English 36:4: 437-461. Pink, S. (2007). Doing Visual Ethnography. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. Powell, K. M. and Takayoshi, P. (2012). Practicing Research in Writing Studies: Reflexive and Ethically Responsible Research. New York, NY: Hampton Press. Seidman, I. (2006). Interviewing as Qualitative Research. New York, NY: Teachers College Press. Selfe, C (1999). Technology and Literacy in the 21st Century: The Importance of Paying Attention. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP. Selfe, C. and Hawisher, G. (2004). Literate Lives in the Information Age. Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Sevans. (2006). Kindergarten 2.0. Teacher Magazine v 18, n 2, 31-35. Siraj, B. and Whitebread, D. (2003). Supplemental Information and Communication Technology in the Early Years: Supporting Early Learning Services. Sloane, S. (1999). The Haunting Story of J: Genealogy as a Critical Category in Understanding How a Writer Composes. In Selfe, C. and Hawisher, G. Passions Pedagogies and 21st Century Technologies. University Press of Colorado. Smagorinsky, P. (2005). Research on Composition. New York, NY: Teacher’s College Press. Straub, S. (1999). Books for Babies: An Overlooked Resource for Working With New Families. Infants and Young Children v. 11, n 3, 79-88. Street, B. (1993). The New Literacy Studies. In B. Street (Ed) Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy (1-21) London: Cambridge University Press. Sullivan, P. and Porter, J. (1997). Opening Spaces:Writing Technologies and Critical Research Practices. Westport: Ablex. The New London Group (1996). A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures. Harvard Educational Review. Terkel, S. (1997). The Studs Terkel Reader. New York, NY: The New Press. Turkle, S. (2011). Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other. New York, NY: Basic Books Thompson, N. (2000). Sylvia Ashton-Warner: Reclaiming Personal Meaning in Literacy Teaching. The English Journal, 3, 90-98. Weiss, R. (1994). Learning From Strangers. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster. Wells, S. (2002). Claiming the Archive for Rhetoric and Composition. Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work. Ed. Gary A. Olson. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP. 55-64. Wysocki, A.; Johnson-Eilola J.; Selfe, C.; & Sirc, G. (2004). Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Logan, UT: Utah State Press.