Literary Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: A Collection of Articles and Commentaries - Softcover

Now, more than ever, educators face extraordinary challenges resulting from an increasingly diverse student population. "Literacy Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students" brings together articles from "The Reading Teacher," Journal of Reading," and "Language Arts" to help teachers meet these challenges. The compilation offers practical teaching strategies, highlights the values of diversity and ways to capitalize on differences to benefit all learners in the classroom, and shows how to use multicultural literature to enhance reading instruction. The articles are grouped into the following parts: Awareness and Attitudes Toward Literacy Principles of Instruction Enhancing Reading Comprehension Using Writing to Develop Reading Selecting and Using Multicultural Literature.

One of the many useful features of the book is that each part is introduced by a well-known professional in the literacy field. Also, an annotated bibliography of more than 100 recently published multicultural books for children in grades K-5 is included, plus a chart that shows the themes included in each book.

"Literacy Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students" will encourage both teachers and students to value the differences that each cultural group brings to the classroom and view these differences as springboards to learning.