literacy

When Tina asks her mother for help in first-grade reading, she discovers to her shock that her mother can't read. A concerned teacher helps them to find tutors and they both learn to read together.

Harry sits on the porch with Mr. George Baker, an African American who is one hundred years old but can still dance and play the drums, waiting for the school bus that will take them both to the class where they are learning to read.

Discusses how to enable students to make sense of what they read through prior knowledge of events, etc.

Sitting opposite Tina while she does her homework, her younger brother Tim learns to read right along with her, only he does it upside down.

In 1851 in South Carolina, Miles, a twelve-year-old slave, is sent to a "breaking ground" to have his spirit broken but endures the experience by secretly taking reading lessons from another slave.

The author describes her experiences, as well as those of other educators, attempting to create spaces for critical literacy in kindergarten through sixth grade classrooms through the use of children's books, and includes practical classroom strategies and lists of children's literature.

Suggests activities for teachers in second- through sixth-grade classrooms that support differentiating comprehension instruction, including small groups, independent student practice, and game-based activities to improve student abilities in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and more.

After his son helps him learn to write his name, Samuel T. Blow goes to the courthouse in his Southern town to cast his ballot on the first election day ever on which African-Americans were allowed to vote.

Offers practical strategies and standards-based lessons for secondary teachers to use graphic novels in the classrooms to encourage literacy and reading, and provides examples from graphic novels.