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Title: Children of Promise: Literate Activity in Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Classrooms (Nea School Restructuring Series) by Shirley Brice Heath ISBN: 0-8106-1844-3 Publisher: National Education Association Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Summary: Meaningful Literacy for Diverse Students
Comment: Heath's Ways With Words and Children of Promise have shaped my views on teaching literacy. I recommend starting with Children of Promise because it is succinct and powerful. If you are a busy teacher looking for something short that will get you thinking, this is for you. In this monograph the authors chronicle the efforts of schools to make literacy lessons engaging and meaningful for culturally and linguistically diverse students. The programs described give students an opportunity to engage in adult forms of literacy. A middle school class tutors kindergarteners. They videotape and examine sessions discussing their strategies. At the end they collectively draft a pamphlet giving kindergarten parents advice on reading to their children. This program and the others described encourage students to examine their use of language and to use language for real purposes. These types of lessons are especially helpful for students who are non-native speakers of English or who speak non-standard forms of English. If you enjoy this you must also look at Heath's Ways With Words which describes her early work with African-American children in the Southeast.
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Title: Ways with Words : Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms (Cambridge Paperback Library) by Shirley Brice Heath ISBN: 0521273196 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 07 July, 1983 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom by Lisa Delpit ISBN: 1565841808 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Making Stories: Law, Literature, Life by Jerome Bruner ISBN: 0374200246 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 17 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Cultural Nature of Human Development by Barbara Rogoff ISBN: 0195131339 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes by L. S. Vygotsky ISBN: 0674576292 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1980 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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