Full Description
"The authors provide practical approaches to literacy instruction that are desperately warranted. They offer a prescription for using strategies, selecting text, making home-school connections, and building learning communities aimed at benefiting all students. In short, this is a text that is long overdue."
--Alfred W. Tatum, Assistant Professor
Northern Illinois University
Make literacy MEANINGFUL in your classroom for students of ALL cultures!
This book will allow teachers to use innovative strategies to promote engaged, inclusive literacy, and raise their students' appreciation for the cultural diversity in their own classroom communities. This resource celebrates awareness of individual, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and economic diversity, and addresses all aspects of studies within the context of culturally responsive teaching. Field-tested with K-8 teachers, each strategy is described for use at beginning, intermediate, and advanced grade levels, and also helps teachers to individualize and accommodate special needs students.
50 Literacy Strategies for Culturally Responsive Teaching, K-8 addresses all aspects of language arts, reading, writing, speaking, and listening, and integrates math, science, and social studies, all within the context of culturally responsive teaching. Ways to include families and community members further strengthen the strategic effectiveness.
The six major themes of this text cluster a wealth of easily adapted and implemented strategies around:
Classroom community
Home, community, and nation
Multicultural literature events
Critical media literacy
Global perspectives and literacy development
Inquiry learning and literacy learning
This invaluable resource will allow every teacher to transform the classroom culture to one in which all cultures are valued and literacy becomes meaningful to all!
Contents
Foreword by Lee Gunderson
Preface
1. Classroom Community: Getting to Know Me, Myself, and Us
2. Home, Community, and Nation: Making Contributions to Literacy Learning
3. Multicultural Literature Events: Motivating Literacy Learning in Content Areas
4. Critical Media Literacy: Exploring Values
5. Global Perspectives and Literacy Development: Understanding the World View
6. Inquiry Learning and Literacy Learning: Beginning to Know Research
Conclusion
Epilogue
Resource A: Standards for the English Language Arts
Resource B: List of Cited Youth Literature
References
Index
