What is family literacy? -- Invitations to bridge home and school -- Rethinking literacy - Multiple modes and literacies -- Texts -- Shifts in cueing systems -- Text selection -- Funds of knowledge and culture -- Home literacies -- Culture -- Cultural resources -- Using multiliteracies to teach -- Literacy by design -- Types of activities -- Writing and technology -- Incorporating family literacy into your school -- The internet by Isabel Pederson -- Growing up with television -- Music between generations by Anne Burke -- Comic books: heroes and villains -- Newspapers: artifacts of a bigger world -- Rap and hip-hop culture by Marika Autrand -- Video games -- Collector cards by Brenda Stein Dzadlov -- Magazines: words and images -- Blogs: collaborating online by Erica C. Boling -- Movies as more than entertainment -- Zines: a voice on issues by Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau.