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Teaching African American Learners to Read

Perspectives and Practices

 

Contributors

Introduction
Bill Hammond, Mary Eleanor Rhodes Hoover, Irving Pressley McPhail

Part I: Theoretical Foundations

Chapter 1
On Literacy and Liberation: The African American Experience
Irving Pressley McPhail

Chapter 2
Pedagogy in Ancient Kemet
Asa G. Hilliard III

Part II: Reading Methodologies

Chapter 3
Effective Schools for the Urban Poor
Ronald Edmonds

Chapter 4
Using a Black Learning Style
George O. Cureton

Chapter 5
Characteristics of Black Schools at Grade Level Revisited
Mary Eleanor Rhodes Hoover

Chapter 6
Bennett-Kew School: One School's Turnaround in Academic Achievement
Nancy Ichinaga

Chapter 7
A Critique of George Weber's Study: Inner-City Children Can Be Taught to Read: Four Successful Schools
Irving Pressley McPhail

Chapter 8
Using Multicultural Literature to Create Guided Reading Connections for African American Learners
Linda B. Akanbi

Chapter 9
Working Together for Literacy: Faces of Hope
Rudine Sims Bishop

Chapter 10
Improving the Reading Comprehension Skills of Urban Students: One High School's Success Story
E.R. Marnell, Sr., Bill Hammond

Chapter 11
Reading Comprehension Strategies for Struggling Middle School Learners
Charlotte Rose Sadler

Chapter 12
Educating African American Learners at Risk: Finding a Better Way
Dorothy S. Strickland

Part III: Cultural Considerations

Chapter 13
Ebonics and Culturally Responsive Instruction: What Should Teachers Do?
Lisa Delpit

Chapter 14
Building Blocks for Literacy Development: Oral Language
Kelli Harris-Wright

Chapter 15
Acknowledging the Language of African American Students: Instruction That Works
Sharroky Hollie

Chapter 16
Afro-American Cognitive Style: A Variable in School Success?
Barbara J. Shade

Chapter 17
Literacy Development in the Primary Grades: Promoting a Self-Sustaining Learning Community Among Teachers
Etta R. Hollins, Linda R. McIntyre, Charles E. DeBose, Kimberly S. Hollins, Arthurlene G. Towner

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Chapter 18
Reading Linguistic Features: Middle School Students' Response to the African American Literary Tradition
Wanda M. Brooks   FREE!

Chapter 19
A Culturally Based Cognitive Apprenticeship: Teaching African American High School Students Skills in Literary Interpretation
Carol D. Lee

Part IV: Assessment Issues

Chapter 20
Bias in Reading, Achievement, and Admission Tests for Black and Other Bidialectal Students: A Sociolinguistic, Cultural, and Political Perspective
Mary Eleanor Rhodes Hoover, Robert L. Politzer, Orlando Taylor

Chapter 21
Practice Guidelines for the Assessment of the African American Child
California Speech-Language-Hearing Association Task Force on the Assessment of the African American Child

Epilogue
Mary Eleanor Rhodes Hoover

Author Index

Subject Index

 

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