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What is Latino/a Immigrant Children

Chapter 27
Handbook of Research on Teacher Education and Professional Development
Latino/a children born in Latin American countries but raised in the U.S. and/or children born in the U.S. to one or more Latino/a immigrant parents.
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What Can I Do?: Using Critical Literacy and Multimodal Text Types to Enhance Students Meaning Making and Talk
Eliza G. Braden (The University of South Carolina, USA)
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1067-3.ch027
Abstract
This chapter offers preservice candidates and inservice teachers a portrait into a classroom context where one teacher: 1. Identified the experiences and backgrounds of 20 culturally and linguistically diverse students; 2. Used critical literacy as a theory to purposefully select literature grounded in the lives and experiences of her culturally and linguistically diverse third graders; and 3. Used critical literacy and multimodal text types to enhance students meaning making and talk. Implications for practice and research are provided.
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