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Designing a Community Translanguaging Space within a Family Literacy Project
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Kim, Sujin; Song, Kim H. – Reading Teacher, 2019
This article features a multilingual family literacy project to enhance family engagement in children's literacy development. First, the authors expand the emerging framework of translanguaging beyond the individual competency toward a collaborative practice across family/community members and diverse sign systems. Then, the authors describe how a…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Community Programs, Multilingualism, Literacy Education
Walk a Day in My Shoes: Cultivating Cross-Cultural Understanding through Digital Literacy
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Clarke, Lane W. – Reading Teacher, 2020
Walk a Day in My Shoes is a curricular project designed to provide a starting point for teachers to cultivate cross-cultural understanding among elementary-age students. In this curricular project, students created their own digital stories about a day spent in their shoes. Through photography, writing, and digital storytelling, each student…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Story Telling
MODEL2TALK: An Intervention to Promote Productive Classroom Talk
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van der Veen, Chiel; van der Wilt, Femke; van Kruistum, Claudia; van Oers, Bert; Michaels, Sarah – Reading Teacher, 2017
This article describes the MODEL2TALK intervention, which aims to promote young children's oral communicative competence through productive classroom talk. Productive classroom talk provides children in early childhood education with many opportunities to talk and think together. Results from a large-scale study show that productive classroom talk…
Descriptors: Intervention, Classroom Communication, Oral Language, Early Childhood Education