Decolonizing Middle Level Literacy Instruction

Author : Michael Domínguez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000904822
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decolonizing Middle Level Literacy Instruction written by Michael Domínguez and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text offers pre-service and in-service teachers pragmatic strategies for teaching middle-grades literacy in culturally proactive and sustaining ways. By demystifying big ideas and complex concepts, Domínguez and Seglem provide clear pathways and lessons for illuminating and engaging with race, ethnicity, culture, and identity in the middle-grade English Language Arts classroom. While addressing social justice, equity, diversity, and liberation can seem intimidating or unrelated to classroom practice, the authors demonstrate how weaving such questions into instruction benefits students’ development. The guidance, strategies, and lessons in this book provide an answer to the question: What does decolonial literacy teaching look like? Concrete but not prescriptive, the authors encourage us to reconsider accepted logics of schooling, so that we can better support adolescents as they navigate complex identity landscapes. Bringing together disparate conversations around reading, writing, identity, and decolonial thinking, and specifically tailored to the middle grades, this book serves as a comprehensive toolkit for praxis and covers such topics as cultural change, community connections, and racial literacy. Each chapter features tips on reading and writing instruction, Teacher Spotlights, Planning Questions, and Additional Resources to make it easy for educators to apply the strategies to their own contexts. An accessible entry to addressing challenging questions around identity in the classroom, this book is essential reading in courses and professional development on ELA and literacy methods as well as teaching culturally and linguistically diverse students. For teachers looking to push toward equity and reshape literacy education so that it serves all middle-grade students, Domínguez and Seglem offer plenty of accessible and motivating places to start.

Author : Lesley Mandel Morrow
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462552269
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Practices in Literacy Instruction written by Lesley Mandel Morrow and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative text and PreK–12 teacher resource is now in a substantially revised seventh edition with 80% new material, foregrounding advances in inclusive, equitable instruction. Teachers are guided through every major component of reading, as well as assessment, motivation, teaching bilingual learners, strengthening connections with families and communities, and more. The book presents principles and strategies for teaching literature and nonfiction texts, organizing and differentiating instruction, supporting struggling readers, and promoting digital literacy. Pedagogical features include chapter-opening bulleted previews of key points; reviews of the research evidence; recommendations for best practices in action, with examples from exemplary classrooms; and end-of-chapter engagement activities. New to This Edition *Chapter on culturally responsive teaching, plus more attention to social justice and equity throughout. *Chapter on supporting students in the “invisible middle.” *Important new focus on social and emotional learning (SEL). *All chapters thoroughly revised or rewritten to reflect current research, theory, and instructional practices.

Author : KWESI KWAA. PRAH
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781920294236
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book CHALLENGE OF DECOLONIZING EDUCATION. written by KWESI KWAA. PRAH and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Victoria F. Trinder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000038149
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Toward a Decolonizing Pedagogy written by Victoria F. Trinder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention-2021 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Teaching Toward a Decolonizing Pedagogy outlines educational practitioner development toward decolonizing practices and pedagogies for anti-racist, justice-based urban classrooms. Through rich personal narratives of one teacher’s critical reflections on her teaching, urban education scholarship and critical praxis are merged to provide an example of anti-racist urban schooling. Steeped in theoretical practice, this book offers a narrative of one teacher’s efforts to decolonize her urban classroom, and to position it as a vehicle for racial and economic justice for marginalized and minoritized students. At once a model for deconstructing the white institutional space of US schooling and a personal account of obstacles to these efforts, Teaching Toward a Decolonizing Pedagogy presents a research-based ‘pueblo pedagogy’ that reconsiders teacher identity and teachers’ capacities for resilience, resistance, and community-based instruction. From this personal exploration, emergent and practicing teachers can extract curricula, practices, and dispositions toward advocacy for students most underserved and marginalized by public education. As an exemplar of decolonizing work both in classroom practices and in methodologies for educational research, this book presents tensions and complexities in school-based theorizing and praxis, and in teacher implementations of anti-racist pedagogies in and against the current US model of colonial schooling.

Author : Kathryn Au
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135464456
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multicultural Issues and Literacy Achievement written by Kathryn Au and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a sequel to the author's earlier volume entitled, Literacy Instruction in Multicultural Settings. In addition to extensive updating of earlier material, this book extends the content coverage to include issues of power, attitudes, and systemic change through the application of discourse theory and critical theory. In doing so, however, the author has tried to maintain the brevity, stylistic clarity, and classroom focus of the earlier volume. Key features of this important new book include: *Teaching Flexibility. Although written with the classroom needs of pre-service teachers in mind, theory and research are treated in sufficient depth to make the book suitable for graduate courses and for teacher study groups. *Issues Organization. Each chapter is organized around familiar issues that characterize schools and classrooms with diverse student populations and explores these issues through new lenses that most teachers have not previously encountered. *Social Constructivist Perspective. Critical theory, discourse theory, and historical perspective are introduced in order to sensitize readers to the need to recognize negative, socially sustained patterns that hamper literacy achievement and replace them with positive patterns. To this end each chapter asks students to maintain a running list of negative patterns along with alternative positive patterns.

Author : Kathleen A. Hinchman
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462548261
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Practices in Adolescent Literacy Instruction written by Kathleen A. Hinchman and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With 50% new material reflecting current research and pedagogical perspectives, this indispensable course text and teacher resource is now in a thoroughly revised third edition. Leading educators provide a comprehensive picture of reading, writing, and oral language instruction in grades 5-12. Chapters present effective practices for motivating adolescent learners, fostering comprehension of multiple types of texts, developing disciplinary literacies, engaging and celebrating students' sociocultural assets, and supporting English learners and struggling readers. Case examples, lesson-planning ideas, and end-of-chapter discussion questions and activities enhance the utility of the volume. Key Words/Subject Areas: disciplinary literacies, secondary English language arts, anti-racist teaching strategies, reading comprehension, writing, struggling older readers, learners, textbooks, graduate courses, high school students, middle, content areas, academic vocabulary, equity, diversity, multiculturalism, teacher resources Audience: Teacher educators and students; classroom teachers, coaches, and administrators in grades 5-12. Serves as a text in advanced undergraduate- or graduate-level courses such as Adolescent Literacy, Disciplinary Literacy, and Reading Instruction with Adolescents"--

Author : Margaret J. Finders
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literacy Lessons written by Margaret J. Finders and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2003 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Language Arts, English, and Middle School methods courses; graduate-level literacy courses. With its sights clearly set on middle school teachers and the middle school teaching experience, this new text expands the definition of literacy to encompass today's popular electronic and audiovisual media. Research-driven coverage offers a thorough presentation of the theory of middle school teaching, plus a wealth of real stories from real classrooms that demonstrate strategies in actual practice. The authors address the current emphasis on standards, discussing their advantages and disadvantages and integrating them throughout. They also embrace the notion of inclusion by offering numerous suggestions for teaching special-needs students in the regular classroom and explore the social and cultural complexities and the joys and challenges of teaching today's adolescents.

Author : Julie L. Pennington
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820469256
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Colonization of Literacy Education written by Julie L. Pennington and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literacy and justice for all? What happens when teachers are faced with educational policies ostensibly focused on ensuring that all children will be reading by third grade? This book focuses on how eight educators in one Texas elementary school navigated the policies of the Texas Reading Initiative, a precursor to the No Child Left Behind Act. Exploring how an educational policy that supported a monolithic, simply defined view of literacy education actually decreased expectations for all students, teachers share their views and provide a basis for understanding how «leaving no child behind» has the potential to lower the bar for many children. The Colonization of Literacy Education reveals how teachers' instructional practices were subject to educational policy constructions of the literacy capabilities of children of color.

Author : Rebecca Powell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136879692
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literacy for All Students written by Rebecca Powell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Culturally Responsive Instruction Observation Protocol (CRIOP) is a framework for implementing culturally relevant literacy instruction and classroom observation. Drawing on research and theory reflecting a range of perspectives ─ multicultural instruction, literacy theory, equity pedagogy, language and discourse models, sheltered instruction, critical pedagogy ─ it provides a means for assessing the many variables of classroom literacy instruction and for guiding practitioners in their development as multicultural educators. Literacy for All Students Discusses issues in multicultural literacy instruction within the context of various essential instructional components (such as assessment, curriculum, parent collaboration) Provides a protocol for observing features of literacy instruction for culturally and linguistically diverse students Presents vignettes from real classrooms, written by elementary and middle school teachers, showing their victories and struggles as they attempt to implement a pedagogy that is culturally responsive within a climate of high stakes testing A highly effective instrument for assessing culturally responsive literacy instruction in schools, the CRIOP serves as a model for realizing a literacy that is both relevant and transformative.

Author : Karen D. Wood
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781593851491
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Literacy in Sixth Grade written by Karen D. Wood and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2005-05-13 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixth grade marks the transition to middle school and, for many students, the transition to early adolescence. The sixth-grade classroom is a place where problem-solving and abstract thinking skills can flourish as teachers devise creative ways to integrate language arts with effective content-area instruction. This book walks the reader through everyday life in a successful sixth-grade language arts/social studies classroom and provides foundational knowledge and hands-on strategies for working with diverse learners.