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What is Mixed–Status Families

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Handbook of Research on Teacher Education and Professional Development
Families with at least one parent born in another country and not a U.S. citizen. However, the children are U.S. citizens by virtue of being born in this country, thus, affording the child and not the parent with the rights associated with being a citizen (Brabeck & Xu, 2010; Landale, Thomas, Van Hook, 2011).
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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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