Language and literacy series

". . . reviews core elements of [English Language Arts] instruction--response to literature, classroom discussion, research, and digital literacy--and demonstrates how to adapt these activities to foster critical thinking and empathetic perspectives among students. Chapters depict teachers and students engaging in this transformative learning, offer strategies for the classroom, and pose questions to guide school communities in collaborative reflection"--Provided by publisher.

"'Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies' raises fundamental questions about the purpose of schooling in changing societies. Bringing together an intergenerational group of prominent educators and researchers, this volume engages and extends the concept of culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP)--teaching that perpetuates and fosters linguistic, literate, and cultural pluralism as part of schooling for positive social transformation "--Back cover.

"Rooted in examples from their own and others' classrooms, the authors offer discipline-specific practices for implementing antiracist literature instruction in White-dominant schools. Each chapter explores a key dimension of antiracist literature teaching and learning, including designing literature-based units that emphasize racial literacy, selecting literature that highlights voices of color, analyzing Whiteness in canonical literature, examining texts through a critical race lens, managing challenges of race talk, and designing formative assessments for racial literacy and identity growth"--Provided by publisher.

"Strategies to help teachers examine their own educational spaces, start the school year in culturally relevent ways, build reciprocal relationships with families and communities, and teach within standards and testing mandates while challenging unjust systems"--Amazon.

Describes the work of a New York City language arts teacher and the Power Writers, an after-school group consisting of African-American and Latino students, and presents guidance on the use of spoken word poetry in literacy learning.

A guide for secondary school teachers on how to incorporate graphic novels into content area instruction.

Examines the schooling of African American children, discussing the fight for access to literacy, supports and roadblocks to success, best practices, theories, and perspectives on teaching African American students, and the role of African American families in the literacy lives of their children.