%0 Journal Article
%T Drawn and written funds of knowledge: A window into emerging bilingual children¡¯s experiences and social interpretations through their written narratives and drawings
%A Adriana Alvarez
%J Journal of Early Childhood Literacy
%@ 1741-2919
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1468798417740618
%X This qualitative study examines Mexican-American emerging bilingual children¡¯s depictions of their lives in the form of written narratives and drawings as a window into their own understandings and interpretations of social contexts and life experiences. Narratives that include drawings were collected once a month in a first grade classroom during one school year in a two-way dual language school set in a border city that serves mostly Mexican-American students. Children¡¯s written and pictorial depictions of their experiences suggest they viewed their roles as valuable contributors to the family¡¯s well-being. They used both multimodal semiotic systems to express their social understandings of family and community networks, and their roles within them
%K Bilingual children
%K Latina/o children
%K multimodality
%K biliteracy
%K sociocultural
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1468798417740618