Girls, Social Class, and Literacy What Teachers Can Do to Make a Difference

Name: Girls, Social Class, and Literacy What Teachers Can Do to Make a Difference
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ISBN: 9780325008400

ISBN-10: 032500840X

ISBN-13: 9780325008400

Edition: 2006

Authors: Stephanie R. Jones, Randy Bomer

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Using stories from her own life as a girl in a working - poor family and illuminating narratives from students living in a high - poverty neighborhood, Stephanie introduces readers to critical literacy and equips them with the tools to begin tearing apart stereotypes and creating new understandings about students, families, ourselves, and one another. This remarkable book is at once powerful and poetic, provocative and informative. Lucy Calkins Be prepared to have your heart examined, perhaps bruised, and ultimately strengthened for the social action that is the reason Stephanie teaches and writesand the reason every educator must read this book. - Jo Beth Allen, author of Sociocultural… Playgrounds: Teacher Research in the Writing Classroom A must-read for teacher study groups preparing to tackle the impact of poverty on elementary education. - Barbara Comber, Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures University of South Australia Girls, Social Class, and Literacy is a compelling and provocative look at the debilitating effects of classism on young girls, as well as a pragmatic and powerful examination of the transformative effects of sensitive, smart teaching on children whose lives and education are too often a reflection of their economic status. Stephanie Jones shares the insights of a five-year study that followed eight working-poor girls, offering you unusually sharp insight into what it's like to be underprivileged in America. With critical literacy as her tool, Jones then helps you peel back your ideas of the poorand of your own studentsto see them, and your role in their lives, more clearly. Just as important, using reading and writing workshop as an instructional framework, she describes how to validate and honor all students' realities while cultivating crucial critical literacy skills. You'll find out why giving children the option to find and talk openly about disconnections with children's literature (as well as connections) and to write on topics of their choosing (even difficult ones) can have a large, positive impact on students as they speak and write about their reality without shame or fear of judgment. As the gap between rich and poor widens in America, more and more children from working-poor families enter schools. You can make a difference in their lives by rethinking how you look at social class and extending to all children the same opportunities to share their experiences through reading, speaking, and writing. Read Girls, Social Class, and Literacy and ensure that in your classroom the education every student receives is not proportionate to their financial worth, but rather to their human worth.

Book details

List price: $37.35
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 8/25/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 7.40" wide x 9.20" long x 0.42" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

A former elementary school teacher and staff developer, Stephanie Jones is Assistant Professor of Literacy at Teachers College, Columbia University. She consults with schools in New York City and the Midwest on reading and writing instruction, critical literacy, and home-school connections. Her work has been published in Language Arts, Feminist Teacher, and Ohio Journal of English Language Arts. Stephanie lives in New York City with her husband, Casey, and their four-year-old daughter, Hayden.



Introduction to Lives, Class, Literacy



Where Are We From? A Look into Ourselves



Where Are Our Students From? A Look into St. Francis



Poverty: Living Lives on the Margins



Taboo No More: Validating Lives on the Margins



Silence Louder Than Drums: Personal and Public Consequences



Breaking the Silence: Critical Literacy



Critical Literacy: A Frame for Thinking, Planning, and Enacting



Relationships Outside School: Mothers, Daughters, and Critical Classroom Conversations



Relationships Inside School: Teacher as Potential Threat



Critical Literacy in the Reading Workshop: Decoding/Reconstructing Henry and Mudge



Critical Literacy in the Writing Workshop: Reconstruction and Social Action



Windows of Opportunity: Critical Work in Schools and Society


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