text: Victoria Purcell-Gates has authored or co-authored books including "Other People's Words: The Cycle of Low Literacy" (1997), Print Literacy Development: Uniting Cognitive and Social Practice Theories (2006), Now We Read We See We Speak: Portrait of Literacy Development in an Adult Freirean-Based Class (2000), Cultural Practices of Literacy: Case Studies of Language, Literacy, Social Practice, and Power (2007), and Creating Authentic Materials and Activities for the Adult Literacy Classroom: A Handbook for Practitioners (2003).