Accelerating and Extending Literacy for Diverse Students

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Dorothy Sisk
Rowman & Littlefield, Aug 13, 2015 - Education - 250 pages
Accelerating and Extending the Literacy of Diverse Students keeps alive the conviction that the growing diverse student body can become successful learners. By creating a culturally relevant classroom that is validating and affirming as it acknowledges the strengths of diverse students, culturally relevant teaching can empower students, motivating them to excel in the classroom and beyond. Each chapter provides sound strategies that can be used to transform teaching of diverse students, using technology, visual literacy, picture books, bibliotherapy, and explorations of where words come from leading to a deeper appreciation and use of words as students read and write. Realizing that teaching can be wearing and stressful, one chapter provides suggestions on how teachers can recharge and nurture their inner lives to be the happy teachers that can change the world.
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Using Culturally Responsive Teaching to Differentiate and Accelerate Literacy for Diverse Learners
1
A Model for Identifying and Nurturing Strengths in Creative Problem Solving across Diverse Domains of Ability
18
Chapter 3 Motivating Gifted Readers
38
Nurturing the Inner Life of Teachers
51
Chapter 5 Engaging and Effective Strategies for English Language Learners
66
Chapter 6 The Use of Response to Intervention RtI to Provide Instruction for TwiceExceptional Students
84
The Archaeology of Thought
105
Chapter 8 Academic Language across the Genre
122
Chapter 9 Using Technology to Accelerate Literacy for Diverse Learners
133
Chapter 10 Picture Book Essentials and the English Language Arts Common Core Standards
144
Chapter 11 Using Visual Literacy and Images as a Gateway to Expand Diverse Students Critical Thinking and Literacy Development
165
Chapter 12 Using Bibliotherapy to Support the Social and Emotional Needs of Diverse Students
179
Storytelling as a Bridge to StudentTeacher Connection
195
Accelerating and Extending the Literacy of Diverse Students
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Dorothy A. Sisk is Conn Chair and Professor at Lamar University. Dr. Dorothy Sisk’s professional career has spanned more than 40 years. She has been published in a variety of textbooks, academic journals, and in the SAGE reference volumes. Dorothy is the author and co-author of eleven books, including: The Growing Person, Intuition: An Inner Way of Knowing, and Leadership Making Things Happen with Doris Shallcross; Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom and Spiritual Intelligence: Developing Higher Consciousness with E. Paul Torrance; A Futures Primer with Charles Whaley; Leadership: A special type of Giftedness with Hilda Roselli; Enhancing the gift of Leadership with Hava Vidergor; Collective Literacy: Using Gifted Strategies to Enrich Learning for Every Student with Susan Israel and Cathy Block; and Creative Teaching of the Gifted and Making Great Kids Greater as a sole author. Her articles appear in the major journals of gifted education including: Understanding Our Gifted, Roeper Review, Gifted and Talented International, Gifted Education International, and Tempo.

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