Like Kiki, I came to school with a very strong literacy background. My family was constantly surrounded me with opportunities to see and hear rich vocabulary. However, it is important as teachers to know every child brings a different background and set of experiences with them to the classroom. Kiki and I both were surrounded by literacy opportunities, but we had very different family backgrounds and different types of access to literacy. The article says, "Children enter school with a legacy of meaning about literacy and educational achievement that is not easily transformed" (41). As teachers we have to know what the legacies of each child is and find a way to provide meaningful curriculum that each child can relate his or her literacy legacy to.
