"This book is a gift to teachers who want to know how best to incorporate diverse literature into their classrooms. It translates rhetoric about diverse books into practical actions. Teachers will find it a valuable resource, full of examples of actual classroom practices and questions for reflecting, as well as suggestions of good books to share with students. It takes the study of diverse texts well beyond the "food, festivals and folklore" focus of the early days of attention to multicultural literature to a consideration of literature as a catalyst for social action. The thematic emphases for the chapters are broad enough to apply to texts that represent diverse cultures, but specific enough to work in diverse classrooms, from elementary school to the college level." - Rudine Sims Bishop, Professor Emerita of Education at The Ohio State University "In far too many schools, our effort to be more inclusive begins and ends with book selection. In Reading to Make a Difference, Lester and Katie teach us that this is not enough. This book is an urgent reminder that even the most powerfully diverse bookshelf cannot mask the damage done to children by practices and curriculum that fails to see them. Reading to Make a Difference shows us how to combine powerful books with purposeful, equitable practice." - Cornelius Minor Books as bridges enable readers to speak freely, think deeply, and take action. In Reading to Make a Difference, Lester and Katie build on the work of Rudine Sims Bishop, extending the notion of books as windows, mirrors, and doors. They offer a pathway that can lead students to take action for social justice causes. They show you how to move beyond exposing your students to diverse children's literature by offering an instructional framework that is applicable to any topic and can be adapted to your own classroom or community. Lester and Katie will show you how to: <ul>
<li>select and share text sets in a variety of reading experiences including read-aloud, small group, book clubs, and independent reading</li> <li>creating a scaffold for students to share their connections with a character, situation, issue, or topic</li> <li>invite students to pause and reflect</li> <li>provide opportunities for students to take action individually or collectively in a way that can make a difference. </li> </ul>
Each chapter highlights different classrooms in action and concludes with a wealth of suggested resources, both picture books and chapter books, along with helpful guidelines on how to choose text sets that reflect the needs, interests, and backgrounds of your students. The right book at the right time can open doors of possibility for a better world. Armed with an understanding of who your students are, where they come from, and what matters to them, you can cultivate children as thoughtful, caring citizens, and empower them to become lifelong agents of change.

Reading to Make a Difference: Using Literature to Help Students Speak Freely, Think Deeply, and Take Action

Education & Teaching

Laminack, Lester L.

Kelly, Katie

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

Improving Disabled Students' Learning: Experiences and Outcomes (Improving Learning)

How do disabled students feel about their time at university? What practices and policies work and what challenges do they encounter? How do they view staff and those providing learning support? This book sets out to show how disabled students experience university life today. The current generation of students is the first to move through university after the enactment of the Disability Discrimination Act, which placed responsibility on universities to create an inclusive environment for disabled students. The research on which the book is based focuses on a selected group of students with a variety of impairments, as they progress through their degree courses. On the way they encounter different styles of teaching and approaches to learning and assessment. The diversity of their views is reflected in the issues they raise: negotiating identities, dealing with transitions, encountering divergent and sometimes confusing teaching and assessment. Improving Disabled Students’ Learning goes on to ask university staff how they experience these new demands to widen participation and create more inclusive learning climates. It explores their perspectives on their roles in a changing university sector. Offering insights into the workings of universities, as seen by their central participants, its findings will be of great interest to all practitioners who teach and support disabled students, as well as campaigners for an end to discrimination. Crucially, it foregrounds the views of disabled students themselves, giving rise to a complex, contradictory and always fascinating picture of university life from students whose voices are not always heard.

Improving Disabled Students' Learning (Improving Learning)

Healey, Mick

HURST, Alan

Fuller, Mary

Riddell, Sheila

Georgeson, Jan

Roberts, Hazel

Weedon, Elisabet

Routledge

Recounts the author's year teaching English to Amerasian children in Saigon and describes their plight

A Year in Saigon: How I Gave Up My Glitzy Job in Television to Have the Time of My Life Teaching Amerasian Kids in Vietnam

Simon&Schuster

Book is used and has been withdrawn from service from a Library. Book has a Library Binding and the usual Library Stamps, Stickers, Card Holder, Library Markings. May or May Not have a Dust Jacket.

The wonderful world of Women's wear daily

Saturday Review Press

Garbage: The History and Future of Garbage in America

Review\nI so wish I could have read this book years ago when making my first (clumsy) attempts at helping my second and third graders think more critically about the endless stream of texts they consume each and every day. I could have been so much more effective. Katie Kelly, Lester Laminack, and Vivian Vasquez have provided a treasure trove of detailed lessons and resources designed to help justice-minded teachers not only understand the need for literacy learning rooted in efforts to address issues of injustice, but better understand what it might look like in their own classrooms. My hope now is that teachers are brave enough to do the work that needs to be done! -- Chris Hass, Author of Social Justice Talk Published On: 2023-01-12\nCritical Comprehension encourages educators to read critically, to take action, and to be part of a necessary global change. Katie Kelly, Lester Laminack, and Vivian Vasquez relate their personal story, which enhances the call to disrupt what they refer to as "the perpetuation of dominant narratives that privilege some people at the expense of others." They describe opportunities that will allow learners to construct a deeper meaning of texts through a critical literacy lens while moving forward to take social action. This book uses a leading-edge instructional framework to center children of all ages as agents of their own learning. I believe this book will leave you with an overwhelming desire, to work alongside young learners, and will give you the inspiration and knowledge required to "be the change." -- Carolyn Clarke, Assistant Professor, St. Francis Xavier University Published On: 2023-01-12\nWow. Katie Kelly, Lester Laminack, and Vivian Vasquez have created a blueprint for critical comprehension that needs truly to be in the hands of all educators, pre-service and veteran. It′s the book I want to share with my undergraduate students and the book I want my children′s teachers to have. It is rife with concrete examples and beautiful questions to springboard the critical thinkers we all aim to cultivate. -- Nawal Qarooni, Educator, Author, and Literacy Coach Published On: 2023-01-12\nKatie Kelly, Lester Laminack, and Vivian Vasquez wrote the book I wish I had when I was first studying critical literacy in grad school many years ago. Not only does this book define critical comprehension for teachers, but it masterfully supports teachers in putting the work of critical comprehension into practice in the classroom. This book is a great text for both teachers just starting on their journey of including critical comprehension throughout their school day and those who have been doing the work for years. The lessons are practical, meaningful, and highly engaging for students. This is a book I will turn to again and again in my work as a classroom teacher and writer. -- Christina Nosek, Author of Answers to Your Biggest Questions About Teaching Elementary Reading Published On: 2023-01-12\nCritical Comprehension: Lessons for Guiding Students to Deeper Meaning by Katie Kelly, Lester Laminack, and Vivian Vasquez offers teachers a powerful look at ways to support young readers to read with criticality. The book is full of tools, teaching resources, lessons, book lists and questions to help us, as educators, examine our classrooms and practices. The authors help us to understand our own positionality in the classroom and they give us many opportunities to reflect throughout the book. It was helpful for me to get a peek into so many different classrooms to see how some of this work played out with children. 
As an educator I feel fortunate to have this team thinking together and sharing their expertise. The combination of their personal stories and classroom anecdotes makes for very powerful learning as we all work to create inclusive classrooms. -- Franki Sibberson, Author of Beyond Leveled Books Published On: 2023-01-12\nBecause high-level comprehension cannot be divorced from wid

Critical Comprehension [Grades K-6]: Lessons for Guiding Students to Deeper Meaning (Corwin Literacy)

Vasquez, Vivian Maria

Laminack, Lester

Corwin

Can you sneak more writing into your already-jammed curriculum? Smuggling Writing shows how to integrate writing seamlessly into your lesson plans, with 32 written response activities that help students process information and ideas in short, powerful sessions. The authors invigorate time-tested tools and organize them into sections on Vocabulary and Concept Development, Comprehension, Discussion, and Research &amp; Inquiry. Each strategy: <ul>
<li>Takes students through before, during, and after reading/learning</li> <li>Provides engaging digital applications</li> <li>Includes sample lessons</li> <li>Details connections to Common Core State Standards</li> </ul>
Smuggling Writing shows how big gains will come from "writing small" day by day.

Smuggling Writing: Strategies That Get Students to Write Every Day, in Every Content Area, Grades 3-12 (Corwin Literacy)

Children's Books

Wood, Karen D.

Taylor, David Bruce

Education & Reference

A Year in Saigon/Catspaw/To the End of Time/Praying for Sheetrock (Reader's Dige

GREENE, Melissa Fay

Clurman, Richard M.

Nizer, Louis

Reader's Digest Association

Provocative and wickedly arousing photography, art and fiction in a very appealing format, chosen by a frequent contributor to The Erotic Review, Katie Kelly.

Katie Kelly's Pillow Book (Pilow Books)

Literature & Fiction

Erotica

Erotic Print Society

Restoration

Parenting & Relationships

Independently published

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