Literacy Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

Acknowledgments

Commentary Authors

Introduction
Michael F. Opitz

Part One:

Awareness and Attitudes Toward Literacy: Commentary
Patrick Shannon

A Good Place to Begin: Examining Our Personal Perspectives
Dawn Abt-Perkins, Mary Louise Gomez

Johnny Can't Talk, Either: The Perpetuation of the Deficit Theory in Classrooms
Rebecca G. Powell (Eller)

Transforming Deficit Myths About Learning, Language, and Culture
Barbara Flores, Patricia Tefft Cousin, Esteban Díaz

Cultural Attitudes Toward Reading: Implications for Teachers of ESL/Bilingual Readers
Mary Lee Field, Jo Ann Aebersold

Literacy Learning From a Multicultural Perspective
Jim Anderson, Lee Gunderson

Part Two:

Principles of Instruction: Commentary
Dorothy S. Strickland

Acceptance and Caring Are at the Heart of Engaging Classroom Diversity
Lindy L. Twiss

Seven Strategies to Support a Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Francesina R. Jackson

Discourse Diversity: Principles for Authentic Talk and Literacy Instruction
John G. Barnitz

Educating African American Learners At Risk: Finding a Better Way
Dorothy S. Strickland

Helping the Nonnative English Speaker With Reading
Christine Sutton

Getting Meaning From Print: Four Navajo Students
Diane M. DuBois

Part Three:

Enhancing Reading Comprehension: Commentary
John G. Barnitz

Cross-Cultural Schemata and Reading Comprehension Instruction
Billie V. Andersson, John G. Barnitz

Using the Experience-Text-Relationship Method With Minority Children
Kathryn H. Au

Negotiating Interpretations of Text: The Role of Student-Led Discussions in Understanding Literature
Christian P. Knoeller

Using an Advance Organizer to Set the Schema for a Multicultural Lesson
Sandra J. LeSourd

Developing Disadvantaged Children's Background Knowledge Interactively
Katherine Maria

Improving Multicultural Awareness and Story Comprehension With Folk Tales
Betsy H. Santino

Using Wordless Picture Books to Teach Linguistically and Culturally Different Students
Joannis Kelly Flatley, Adele Ducharme Rutland

All the Angles of Idiom Instruction
Ann Baldwin May

Dialect Barriers to Reading Comprehension Revisited
Kenneth S. Goodman, Catherine Buck

Part Four:

Using Writing to Develop Reading: Commentary
Mary Anne Doyle

Literacy Scaffolds: Strategies for First- and Second-Language Readers and Writers
Owen F. Boyle, Suzanne F. Peregoy

Expressing Ethnic Identity Through Brown-Bag Big Books
JoAnn M. Carter, Sigrid M. Renner

Integrating ESL Reading and Writing Through Authentic Discourse
Martha R. Dolly

Black History Month Resolutions: Fifth Graders Construct Their Heritage
Timothy Shanahan, Bonita Robinson, Mary Schneider

Combining Visual Literacy, Text Understanding, and Writing for Culturally Diverse Students
Richard Sinatra, Jeffrey S. Beaudry, Josephine Stahl-Gemake, E. Francine Guastello

Part Five:

Selecting and Using Multicultural Literature: Commentary
Timothy V. Rasinski, Nancy D. Padak

Issues in Selecting Multicultural Children's Literature
Junko Yokota

Multicultural Learning Through Children's Literature
Timothy V. Rasinski, Nancy D. Padak

Beyond Chopsticks and Dragons: Selecting Asian American Literature for Children
Valerie Ooka Pang, Carolyn Colvin, MyLuong Tran, Robertta H. Barba

Teaching Multicultural Literature in the Reading Curriculum
Donna E. Norton

A Look at Newbery Medal Books From a Multicultural Perspective
Cindy S. Gillespie, Janet L. Powell, Nancy E. Clements, Rebecca A. Swearingen

Living The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush
Matthew J. Glover, Julie M. Pfeiffer

Enhancing Reading Instruction Through Cinderella Tales
Jo Worthy, Janet W. Bloodgood

From Anansi to Zomo: Trickster Tales in the Classroom
Terrell A. Young, Phyllis M. Ferguson

Part Six:

An Annotated Bibliography of Multicultural Children's Literature: Commentary
Lee Galda

An Annotated Bibliography of Multicultural Children's Literature Published in 1997
Michael F. Opitz

For Further Reading

Subject Index