<p>This powerful book demonstrates how culturally responsive teaching can make learning come alive. Drawing on his experience as a fifth-grade teacher in a multiethnic school where children spoke over 14 different home languages, the author reveals how he created a language arts curriculum from the students’ own rich cultural resources, narratives, and identities. Illustrating the challenges and possibilities of teaching and learning in a large urban school, this book:</p> <ul>
<li>Documents how a culturally engaged pedagogy improved student achievement and increased standardized test scores.</li> <li>Examines the literacy practices of children from immigrant, migrant, and refugee backgrounds, and includes powerful examples of their voices and writing.</li> <li>Provides an invaluable model of reflective practice, including a wide array of student-centered strategies, to generate powerful learning experiences</li> <li>Demonstrates a way for teachers to tap into the various forms of literacy students practice beyond the borders of the classroom.</li>
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Immigrant Students and Literacy: Reading, Writing, and Remembering (Practitioner Inquiry Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Gerald Campano

Social Sciences

Teachers' College Press

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