Full Description
Text Sets: Multimodal Learning for Multicultural Students integrates a multicultural approach to teaching with standards-based instruction and multimodal learning opportunities in a variety of content areas. This unique combination allows teachers to meet the demands of their curriculum while recognizing and honoring the diverse students in their classroom. Each chapter provides an annotated text set with a specific theme, curricular goals, and instructional activities that suggest ways for students to interact with the texts. In addition to providing ready-made text sets, it models a framework for teachers to build their own text sets based on the individual needs of their schools and communities.
Contents
Preface xi
Introduction xiii
Lisa Ciecierski
Part 1: Literacy and Language Arts
1. Using Literature to Teach Inference in the English/Language Arts Classroom 3
William P. Bintz
2. Understanding Those Who Are Different: A Text Set for Middle School Language Arts Curriculum 13
Bethany Scullin
3. 'Good Hair': Exploring Race within Multicultural Preschool Curriculum 25
Brianna Foraker
4. Recognizing African Influences in Children's Literature 33
Taylor Hair and Rachael Fleischaker
Part 2: Mathematics
5. Using Texts to See the Universality of Mathematics 45
Julie Nurnberger-Haag, Anita Alexander and Janis S. Mcteer
6. Using Literature as a Lens into the Standards for Mathematical Practice 59
Courtney Nagle
7. Counting Our Way through Kindergarten Using Text Sets 73
Molly Young
Part 3: Science and the Nature World
8. A Text Set Guided Tour of Biological Evolution 85
Lisa Borgerding
9. Science as a Human Enterprise: The Power of Varied Backgrounds and Perspectives: A Text Set for Elementary and Middle School Science 99
Bridget K. Mulvey
10. Using Text Sets to Teach STEM in the K-5 Classroom 107
William P. Bintz, Sara D. Moore and Mila Rosa Librea-Carden
11. To Infinity and Beyond with Texts: A Text Set for High School Astronomy 117
Alexandria Twichell
Part 4: Historical Perspectives
12. Using Biographical Multicultural and International Literature across Content Areas 129
Gumiko Monobe and Sharyn Turner
13. Trinidad Is a Paradise 149
Joanne Kilgour Dowdy
14. Understanding Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Test Set for High School American History 161
Joe Lendak
15. Beyond Names and Dates in World War II: A Text Set for High School History 167
Matthew Porter
Part 5: Exploring Cultural Connections
16. Día de Muertos - Day of the Dead: A Multicultural Tradition 177
Mariana Romero-Gonzalez
17. Everyone Has a Story: What Is Yours? 185
Shen Wen Tan
18. What Are You? A Text Set about Biracial Identity 193
Shana M. Lee
19. The Way of My People: Addressing Students' Heritage through Blackfoot Culture 201
Lorianna Clarke-Alexander
Part 6: Communication through Language and Culture
20. Experiential Exercises in Lingo-Cultural Diversity 213
Irina Anokhin
21. Communication between the Deaf, the Culturally Deaf, Their Families, and the Hearing 221
Laura Beth Benner
22. Finding Peace through War 229
Fitim Krasniqi
Part 7: Musical Journeys
23. Jazzin' It up in the Elementary Music Classroom with Text Sets 239
Rachael Fleischaker
24. The Blues: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Using Text Sets 251
Karl Martin
Part 8: Visual Art and What It Represents
25. Colors and Emotions 263
Kaitlyn Culp
26. Aesthetics: It's Not Always Black and White 269
Katheryn Werner
27. Women Artists and Women in Art 277
Sue Kelewae
About the Contributors 287
Index 293
