Addressing Diversity in Literacy Instruction

Evan Ortlieb, Earl H. Cheek Jr, Evan Ortlieb, Earl H. Cheek Jr, Evan T. Ortlieb, Earl H. Cheek Jr.

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781787140493
• eBook ISBN: 9781787149083
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Curricula

This book presents recent research related to how issues of diversity are addressed within literacy instruction for K-12 learners. Over the last decade, issues of diversity have promulgated within the field of literacy. Recent revisions to teacher education standards call for new approaches to professional development to ensure that educators are positioned to view and utilize diversity as an advantage within their classrooms and notions of what constitutes diversity are expanding. 

As the population of learners continues to diversify, literacy teachers must be equipped with knowledge of who their learners are and how to effectively build upon their individual experiences, lifestyles, and ways of seeing the world. A systematic change is needed and this volume is directed at advancing research within the intersectionality between literacy and diversity to contribute towards this important mission. 

This volume features prominent literacy researchers sharing their evidence-based successes that are founded upon longstanding and newfound theoretical frameworks. It is suitable for both educators in K-12 and university classroom contexts for teachers, administrators, graduate students, and professors alike.

INDEX

academic language, 79–80, 81

academic vocabulary journal, 82–83

ACCESS. See Assessing Comprehension and Communication in English State to State for English Language Learners (ACCESS)

access to complex texts, 10–13. See also Complex text, access to text; Opportunities to learn (OTL); Reading

accurate literacy learning information, 6

adolescent classrooms, ELL educators and, 57, 60–70

bias and validity, 65

findings, 65–70

Latina/o teenagers, 66–68

participant observation, 61–63

research design, 60–63

state’s lack of awareness, 69

status of education, 69–70

teaching profession, 69–70

agentive emergent bilinguals, 185–187

Alarcon, Francisco, 176

alien poem, 182, 185

“All about Purple and Red,” 181

alphabetic principle, 78

alternative grammars, in written assignments, 49

Amanti, C., 137

Americans with Disabilities Act, 231, 232

Anti-bias Framework (Teaching Tolerance website), 150

Assessing Comprehension and Communication in English State to State for English Language Learners (ACCESS), 177

assistive technology, 242–243

audio-assisted reading, 245–246

authentic audience, 175–176

autism, UDL for, 239–241

autonomous reading, 13

Averbeck, Jim, 218

Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills (BICS), 79–80

Bauer, E., 175

Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights that Changed America (Freedman), 221–222

Beck, I. L., 81

Benchmark Assessment System (BAS), 24, 2...

Table of contents

• Foreword
• Towa rd Equity Through Oportunities to Learn Literacy
• More Than One Voice: Utilizing Students’ Home Languages and Cultural Experiences in Reading Recovery
• Teaching Gramar While Valuing Language Diversity: Urban Teachers Navigating Linguistic Ideological Dilemmas
• Multicultural Ell Educators’ Perspectives of Sociocultural Dynamics in the Adolescent Classroom
• Scenarios and Suggestions: Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners
• Rad Dad: A Chicano Man (Re) Constructing Masculinity and Fatherhood Through Zines
• A Qualitative Inquiry Expanding Novice Teachers’ Definitions of Student Diversity to Include Economic Disparities and Lifestyle Differences
• Reading Towa rd Equity: Creating LGBTQ+ Inclusive Classrooms Through Literary and Literacy Practices
• Accentuating Social and Cultural Connections to Revitalize Literacy Achievement
• Building on Emergent Bilinguals’ Funds of Knowledge Using Digital Tools for Literacy
• Teaching for Global Readiness: A Model for Localy Situated and Globally Connected Literacy Instruction
• Utilizing a Rubric to Identify Diversity in Children’s Literature
• Addressing Diversity Through the Universal Design for Learning Lens
• The Fierce Urgency of Now: CDF Freedom Schools and Culturaly Relevant Pedagogy
• Index