Immigrant Students and Literacy: Reading, Writing, and Remembering

by Gerald Campano

Book Overview

This powerful book demonstrates how culturally responsive teaching can make learning come alive. Drawing on his experience as a fifth-grade teacher in a multiethnic school where children spoke over 14 different home languages, the author reveals how he created a language arts curriculum from the students' own rich cultural resources, narratives, and identities. Illustrating the challenges and possibilities of teaching and learning in a large urban...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807747327
• ISBN13: 9780807747322
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.4" x 9.0"