Martin Luther College

Filled with day-to-day literacy practices, this book will help elementary school teachers understand their role in dismantling the imbalance of privilege in literacy education. Chapters take readers into classrooms where they will see, hear, and feel decolonizing and humanizing culturally relevant pedagogies as students learn literacy and a critical stance through musical literacies, oral histories, heritage lessons, and building a critical consciousness....

In response to the emphasis placed on nonfiction and informational texts by the Common Core State Standards, the Third Edition of this book provides an integrated approach to incorporating nonfiction and informational texts into the secondary literature classroom. This new edition shows teachers how to adapt practices that have always defined good pedagogy to the new generation of standards for literature instruction.

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...

Here, Anne Dyson traces the influence of a wide-ranging set of "textual toys" from children's lives - church and hip-hop songs, rap music, movies, TV, traditional jump-rope rhymes, the words of professional sports announcers and radio deejays - upon school learning and writing.

"Help adolescents learn and use the academic words that will assist them in school and beyond. Townsend outlines a metalinguistic approach to help students learn words by using them in ways that are meaningful to their identity, language background, and individual interests. The text includes classroom anecdotes, real-world examples, and templates for teachers"--