| Description |
viii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-321) and index. |
| Contents |
Awareness and attitudes toward literacy -- A good place to begin: examining our personal perspectives -- Johnny can't talk, either: the perpetuation of the deficit theory in classrooms -- Transforming deficit myths about learning, language, and culture -- Cultural attitudes toward reading: implications for teachers of ESL/bilingual readers -- Literacy learning from a multicultural perspective -- Acceptance and caring are at the heart of engaging classroom diversity -- |
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Seven strategies to support a culturally responsive pedagogy -- Discourse diversity: principles for authentic talk and literacy instruction -- Educating African American learners at risk: finding a better way -- Helping the nonnative English speaker with reading -- Getting meaning from print: four Navajo students -- Cross-cultural schemata and reading comprehension instruction -- Using the experience-text-relationship method with minority children -- Negotiating |
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interpretations of text: the role of student-led discussions in understanding literature -- Using an advance organizer to set the schema for a multicultural lesson -- Developing disadvantaged children's background knowledge interactively -- Improving multicultural awareness and story comprehension with folk tales -- Using wordless picture books to teach linguistically and culturally different students -- All the angles of idiom instruction -- Dialect barriers to reading |
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comprehension revisited -- Literacy scaffolds: strategies for first- and second-language readers and writers -- Expressing ethnic identity through brown-bag big books -- Integrating ESL reading and writing through authentic discourse -- Black history month resolutions: fifth graders construct their heritage -- Combining visual literacy, text understanding, and writing for culturally diverse students -- Issues in selecting multicultural children's literature -- |
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Multicultural learning through children's literature -- Beyond chopsticks and dragons: selecting Asian American literature for children -- Teaching multicultural literature in the reading curriculum -- A look at the Newbery medal books from a multicultural perspective -- Living The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush -- Enhancing reading instruction through Cinderella tales -- From Anansi to Zomo: trickster tales in the classroom -- An annotated bibliography of multicultural |
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children's literature -- An annotated bibliography of multicultural children's literature published in 1997. |
| Subject |
Linguistic minorities -- Education -- United States.
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Children of minorities -- Education -- United States.
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Reading -- United States.
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Literacy -- United States.
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Multicultural education -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Opitz, Michael F.
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International Reading Association.
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| ISBN |
0872071944 alkaline paper |
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