Describes how a reading teacher helped an English class understand a novel set in a different culture using an article from the "Journal of Reading." (AEA)

Posits several reasons why the majority of Greek children learn to read well in spite of problems faced by the Greek educational system. (AEA)

Develops a rationale for using traditional folklore as a resource for educating children about other people's cultural heritage and presents a case study of a unit that uses the Spider stories from the Ashanti people of West Africa. (HOD)

Discusses how content area reading strategies are particularly well-suited to developing cross-cultural understanding in both minority and mainstream culture students. Presents and compares strategies devised by secondary school teachers in rural Alaska to demonstrate how some teachers are already promoting cross-cultural understanding in their…

Describes seven strategies that teachers of all grade levels and disciplines can use to improve their effectiveness in teaching students of diverse cultural backgrounds. (SR)

Teachers share learning activities and experiences that involve the writing of letters of famous people, the value of American literature in Nigeria, and the manipulation of expository prose through writing exercises. (HOD)

Examines how cross-cultural schemata influence reading comprehension and offers some guidelines for developing comprehension of culturally different students. (HOD)