Literacy for Diverse Learners: Finding Common Ground in Today's Classrooms

Meet the diverse needs of the learners in your classroom - while ensuring excellence in acquiring literacy for all children! Here you get firsthand knowledge, research, and numerous examples from parents, classroom teachers, teacher educators and administrators to help you use effective strategies and techniques for supporting the literacy development of all learners. The chapters in the first section exemplify and personify diversity for various learners, children who are not from the mainstream majority because they are at risk for reading and/or writing failure. The six chapters in the second section focus on classroom practices that support diverse learners. The last section is a call to action.