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Feeling Our Way: Teaching, Writing, and Reading with Belief (JAEPL Winter 2008-2009)

Editor(s): Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Linda T. Calendrillo

This featured issue celebrates the importance of feelings—emotional, physical, and spiritual—as key to the transformative possibilities of teaching, writing, and reading.

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Inside City Schools: Investigating Literacy in Multicultural Classrooms

Editor(s): Sarah Warshauer Freedman, Elizabeth Radin Simons, Julie Shalhope Kalnin, Alex Casareno

This is one of the first books to synthesize and coordinate the work of a national team of teacher researchers who, together, address the difficult issues of race and ethnicity in the classroom. With courage and honesty, experienced English and social studies teachers from four multicultural settings--Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, and San Francisco--grapple with the issues of how best to meet the literacy learning needs of an increasingly diverse school population.

Level(s): Middle, Secondary

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"It's Our World Too": Socially Responsive Learners in Middle School Language Arts

Author(s): Beverly Busching, Betty Ann Slesinger

This book is a valuable resource for middle school teachers who want to use significant social issues such as race, class, and poverty to invigorate their teaching of literacy and communication skills through student inquiry and collaborative learning.

Level(s): Middle

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Judith Ortiz Cofer in the Classroom: A Woman in Front of the Sun

Author(s): Carol Jago

Carol Jago offers ways to teach the works of Judith Ortiz Cofer in the high school English classroom.

Level(s): Secondary

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Kaleidoscope: A Multicultural Booklist for Grades K–8, Second Edition

Editor(s): Rosalinda B. Barrera, Verlinda D. Thompson, Mark Dressman

Includes annotations of almost 600 nonfiction and fiction texts published between 1993 and 1995 that focus particularly on African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos/Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans.

Level(s): Elementary, Middle

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Kaleidoscope: A Multicultural Booklist for Grades K–8, Third Edition

Editor(s): Junko Yokota

The third edition of Kaleidoscope offers students, teachers, and librarians a helpful guide to the best multicultural literature for elementary and middle school readers.

Level(s): Elementary, Middle

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Langston Hughes in the Classroom: "Do Nothin' till You Hear from Me"

Author(s): Carmaletta M. Williams

Carmaletta M. Williams provides high school teachers with background on Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance as well as help in teaching Hughes's poetry, short stories, novels, and autobiography.

Level(s): Secondary

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Language Diversity in the Classroom: From Intention to Practice

Editor(s): Geneva Smitherman, Victor Villanueva

The contributors address the major issures inherent in linguistically diverse classrooms: language and racism, language and nationalism, and the challenges in teaching writing while respecting and celebrating students' own languages.

Level(s): College

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Language Ideologies: Critical Perspectives on the Official English Movement, Volume 1

Editor(s): Roseann Dueñas González, Ildikó Melis

The contributors to this first of two volumes come from varying backgrounds and together explore the political, legislative, social, and educational implications of language ideologies.

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Language Ideologies: Critical Perspectives on the Official English Movement, Volume 2

Editor(s): Roseann Dueñas González, Ildikó Melis

Volume 2: History, Theory, and Policy explores the political, legislative, and social implications of language ideologies, focusing in particular on the implications for policymakers and language-program administrators.

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