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Immigrant Students and Literacy: Reading, Writing, and Remembering
Contributor(s): Campano, Gerald (Author), Lytle, Susan L. (Editor), Cochran-Smith, Marilyn (Editor)
ISBN: 0807747327     ISBN-13: 9780807747322
Publisher: Teachers College Press
OUR PRICE:   $27.50  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2006
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Annotation: 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.
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Student Life & Student Affairs
- Social Science | Children's Studies
- Education | Multicultural Education
Dewey: 371.826
LCCN: 2006021629
Series: Practitioner Inquiry (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.34" H x 6.39" W x 8.96" (0.49 lbs) 160 pages
 
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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:

  • Documents how a culturally engaged pedagogy improved student achievement and increased standardized test scores.
  • Examines the literacy practices of children from immigrant, migrant, and refugee backgrounds, and includes powerful examples of their voices and writing.
  • Provides an invaluable model of reflective practice, including a wide array of student-centered strategies, to generate powerful learning experiences
  • Demonstrates a way for teachers to tap into the various forms of literacy students practice beyond the borders of the classroom.