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Exploring Culturally Relevant Texts With Kindergartners and Their Families
- Source :
- The Reading Teacher. 68:589-598
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2015.
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Abstract
- This article shares a monthly curricular model that can help teachers and families bridge the gap between home and school by using literature and response inspired from the cultures in the classroom. Integrating culturally responsive texts and family response journals into the classroom and the home can help children, their families, and peers make critical connections to the literature as well as understand diversity as a productive resource. This yearlong curriculum model took place in a diverse kindergarten classroom that included children and families representing a wide range of socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. This article focuses on three months of the curricular structure where families engaged in literature focused on adoption. Findings demonstrated that families’ responses led to expanded views of family structures and cultures and provided space for critical conversations around texts in the home and school. Authentic family and child responses are included in the article.
- Subjects :
- Pharmacology
Linguistics and Language
Teaching method
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education
Space (commercial competition)
Language and Linguistics
Family literacy
Pedagogy
Culturally responsive
Mathematics education
Pharmacology (medical)
Early childhood
Psychology
Curriculum
Socioeconomic status
Diversity (politics)
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Details
- ISSN :
- 00340561
- Volume :
- 68
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Reading Teacher
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........f5d3b781840949ed441a88ec7ad64364