50 Literacy Strategies for Culturally Responsive Teaching, K-8
Offeringa wealth of field-tested literacy strategies, this book helps K-8 teachers make their instruction more culturally inclusive and responsive.
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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 developmentInquiry 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!
Foreword by Lee GundersonPreface1. Classroom Community: Getting to Know Me, Myself, and Us2. Home, Community, and Nation: Making Contributions to Literacy Learning3. Multicultural Literature Events: Motivating Literacy Learning in Content Areas4. Critical Media Literacy: Exploring Values5. Global Perspectives and Literacy Development: Understanding the World View6. Inquiry Learning and Literacy Learning: Beginning to Know ResearchConclusionEpilogueResource A: Standards for the English Language ArtsResource B: List of Cited Youth LiteratureReferencesIndex
\ Alfred W. Tatum"The authors of Culturally Responsive Teaching: 50 Literacy Strategies 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."\ \ \ \ \ Donald J. Leu"The authors make an important point: Developing greater awareness of our diversity can be used in powerful ways to engage students and increase achievement. Moreover, they show you how to do this with very simple strategies. This is a wonderful book for all of us committed to developing culturally responsive classrooms."\ \ \ Patricia A. Edwards"While there are many books on culturally responsive teaching, this one provides a fresh view from a different perspective and I recommend it for all who want to broaden their knowledge of working with culturally diverse families and children."\ \
