Ways with Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and ClassroomsWays with Words, first published in 1983, is a classic study of children learning to use language at home and at school in two communities only a few miles apart in the south eastern United States. 'Roadville' is a white working class community of families steeped for generations in the life of textile mills; 'Trackton' is an African American working class community whose older generations grew up farming the land, but whose existent members work in