More Mirrors in the Classroom: Using Urban Children's Literature to Increase Literacy (Kids Like Us) - Hardcover

Fleming, Jane; Catapano, Susan; Thompson, Candace M.; Carrillo, Sandy Ruvalcaba

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1475802153 ISBN 13: 9781475802153

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Nearly 30% of all public school children attend school in large or mid-size cities, totaling more than 16 million students in 22,000 schools. For schools serving culturally and linguistically diverse populations and large numbers of children living in poverty, a significant achievement gap persists. Proponents of multicultural education often advocate for instruction with culturally relevant texts to promote inclusion, compassion, and understanding of our increasingly diverse society. Less discussion has focused on the significant body of research that suggests that culturally relevant texts have important effects on language and literacy development. By "connecting the dots" of existing research, More Mirrors in the Classroom raises awareness about the critical role that urban children's literature can play in helping children learn to read and write. In addition, it provides practical step-by-step advice for increasing the cultural relevance of school curricula in order to accelerate literacy learning.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Jane Fleming is a reading specialist with more than 20 years' experience working in urban public schools in Chicago, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C. She is co-founder of KIDS LIKE US, a nonprofit organization dedicated to research, professional development, and advocacy around teaching with culturally relevant texts.

Susan Catapano, EdD, is an elementary school librarian and retired teacher educator with more than 25 years of experience working with early childhood and elementary school teachers. She still teaches part-time for several universities.

Candace M. Thompson, PhD, is chair and associate professor in the Department of Instructional Technology, Foundations, and Secondary Education at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She focuses on critical multicultural and antiracist education in teacher education in her research.

Sandy Ruvalcaba Carrillo is a resource teacher of English learners in a school on the Southwest side of Chicago with 17 years of experience in education. She earned her undergraduate degree in bilingual/bicultural education from Western Illinois and completed a graduate degree in early childhood education at Erikson Institute.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1475802153
• ISBN 13: 9781475802153
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 252
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