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Literacy Achievement and Diversity Keys to Success for Students, Teachers and Schools

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ISBN-10: 0807752061

ISBN-13: 9780807752067

Edition: 2011

Authors: Kathryn Au, James A. Banks, Robert Swarz, James A. Banks

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Description:

What can educators do to improve the literacy learning of students of diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds? This book highlights four keys to success that educators can use. It shows that it can be done-the literacy achievement gap can be closed, and culturally responsive instruction is an important part of the solution. Students of diverse backgrounds can achieve high levels of literacy, in classrooms where learning can be joyful, and in schools where educators have a strong sense of community and purpose.
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publication date: 4/8/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Series Foreword
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Schooling, Literacy, and Cultural Diversity in Research and Personal Experience
Schooling and Family History
Culture and Language
Literacy
Becoming a Teacher and Researcher
Reflections
Follow-up Activity
Social Constructivism and the School Literacy Learning of Students of Diverse Backgrounds
Social Constructivism
Explanations for the Achievement Gap
Cummins's Theoretical Framework
Proposed Conceptual Framework
Conclusion
Follow-up Activity
Culturally Responsive Instruction: Application to Multiethnic Classrooms
Rising Standards for Literacy
Students of Diverse Backgrounds and the Literacy Achievement Gap
Explanations for the Gap
Culturally Responsive Instruction
Application to Multiethnic Classrooms
Defining Good Teaching
Using a Variety of Groupings
Conclusion
Follow-up Activity
If Can, Can: Hawai'i Creole Creole English and Reading Achievement
Language, Literacy, and Power in Hawai'i
HC and Learning to Read
Resistance to Literacy Learning in School
Sustained School Change
Conclusion
Follow-up Activity
Ownership, Literacy Achievement, and Students Diverse Cultural Backgrounds
A Visit to a KEEP Classroom
Anthropological Perspectives
Findings from Research with Native Hawaiian Students
Conclusion
Follow-up Activity
Balanced Literacy Instruction: Implications Students of Diverse Backgrounds
Balanced Literacy Instruction
Research with Hawaiian Children
Definition of Terms
Findings from Research
Conclusion
Follow-up Activity
Negotiating the Slippery Slope: School Change and Literacy Achievement
Beginning the Work in School Change
Spread of the School Change Process in Hawai'i
Scaling Up the SBC Process
Four Levels of Implementation
Preliminary Results for Students
Conclusion
Follow-up Activity
References
Index
About the Author