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Incorporating Decodable Books into an Early Grades Literacy Curriculum: Tensions and New Learnings from One Teacher
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Kerry Elson; Ashley Pennell; Rebecca Payne Jordan; Kindel Turner Nash; Woodrow Trathen – Reading Teacher, 2024
In this article, one teacher shares her journey using decodable books with her culturally and linguistically diverse students, documenting new understandings and tensions that she has encountered. Four literacy teacher educators augment the teacher's story by connecting it with the current literature on literacy and decodable books. After reading…
Descriptors: Books, Decoding (Reading), Reading Instruction, Literacy Education
Supporting Multilingual Black Children: Building on Black Language Genius
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Frieson, Brittany L.; Presiado, Vivian E. – Reading Teacher, 2022
Negative societal beliefs and language ideologies about Black Language speakers continue to shape how Black Language is perceived from deficit perspectives in schools. However, educators must challenge these negative ideologies by amplifying the rich linguistic features that Black Language speakers already have by positioning these language…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, African Americans, Blacks, African American Students
Learning from the Past: What ESSA Has the Chance to Get Right
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Dennis, Danielle V. – Reading Teacher, 2017
Signed into law by President Barack Obama in December 2015, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) replaces No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the 2001 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. NCLB and its Reading First mandate brought punitive accountability models and scripted core curricula into schools. Based on the language of…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Programs
Meeting Characters in Caldecotts: What Does This Mean for Today's Readers?
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Koss, Melanie D.; Martinez, Miriam; Johnson, Nancy J. – Reading Teacher, 2016
We examined representations of main characters in Caldecott Award winner and honor books over the past 25 years. Each book containing a human main character was coded for the following features: culture/ethnicity, gender, age, place where character lives, time period in which the character lives, disability, religion, socioeconomic status, and…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Awards, Childrens Literature, Disproportionate Representation