Teaching Literacy in Urban Schools (eBook, ePUB)

Lessons from the Field
Redaktion: Purdum-Cassidy, Barbara; Scott, Lakia M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Today's public schools represent greater student diversity than ever before in the history of the United States, yet pedagogical approaches as mandated by state education agencies and school districts superimpose mainstream curricula and instructional practices which ultimately disadvantage the academic outcomes of the majority minority: African American and Hispanic/Latino(a) students. Unfortunately, national report findings also heighten the educational crisis that exists for Black and Brown children with regard to reading and writing achievement. As a result, there is need to deeply explore the relationship between Black and Brown student literacy achievement and educational policy, teacher education program, curriculum, and assessment. This book seeks to provide some practical insights guided by conceptual and contextual knowledge by understanding how to teach urban African American and Hispanic/Latino(a) students by discussing culturally appropriate instructional strategies that have demonstrated success among African American and Hispanic/Latino(a) students. This book will showcase successful models for teaching literacy to urban student through a discussion of topics that include: (1) increasing literacy achievement and motivation, (2) multicultural literacy practices, and (3) early and elementary literacy instruction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475839340
• Artikelnr.: 51232003

Autorenporträt

Barbara Purdum-Cassidy, Ed.D., is clinical assistant professor in the School of Education at Baylor University. She currently teaches elementary languages methods and advanced methods of teaching writing courses to pre-service teachers and graduate students. Lakia M. Scott, Ph.D.,is assistant professor of Urban Education and Literacy in the School of Education at Baylor University. Under her research framework of increasing educational access and opportunity for traditionally minoritized students, she currently teaches courses in social and cultural foundations, literacy, and research methods.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Classroom as Community: Academic, Social, and Cultural Needs
for Urban Learners
Chapter 1: Still Keepers of the Dream: Lessons Learned from Elementary
Literacy Educators
Meredith Dana and Lakia M. Scott
Chapter 2: Not So Elementary: Preservice Teachers Reflect on Teaching Urban
Middle School Struggling Readers
Lakia M. Scott and Randy Wood
Chapter 3: The Power of the Pen: Writing with Spoken Word Poetry
Lauren Bagwell, Karon LeCompte, and Brooke Blevins
Chapter 4: Lovin the Skin I'm In: Advocating for "stories" via Young Adult
Literature
Mona Choucair
Part II: Strategies, Approaches, and Models for Increasing Literacy
Motivation and Achievement
Chapter 5: Aesthetic Approaches for Teaching Writing to Upper Elementary
Students
Amanda Gardner and Evan Ditmore
Chapter 6: The 3CO Approach to Writing Instruction
Nancy P. Gallavan and Gloria L. Loring
Chapter 7: Supporting Emergent Learners in Their Beginning Steps Toward
Literacy
Margaret Thomson
Chapter 8: Using Picture Books to Engage Beginning Readers and Writers in
Visual Literacy
Jacqueline Easley
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Index