THE PRACTICE: Creating Responsive Classrooms
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Resources related to this practice:

• Digital library and archives, formerly the scholarly communications project. The ALAN Review
  http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/fall95/Ericson.html

  Recommended multicultural adolescent literature featuring memorable homes. Homes are an important part of the lives shared by adolescents of all cultures. Promoting the reading of books that look at homes in the lives of teenagers from many cultures can encourage reading and discussion around cross-cultural issues in the classroom.

• ESL Teacher as a Cultural Broker
  http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/crosscultural.php

  "Web page that deals with the role of the ESL/bilingual professionals as teachers of strategies which help their colleagues and other mainstream staff members understand the role that culture plays in the behavior and reactions of second language learners and their parents. The page contains links to downloadable activities that explore myths in second language acquisition and biases and stereotypes. "

• Multicultural Book Reviews
  http://www.isomedia.com/homes/jmele/joe.html

  Site where you can submit your own book reviews. This site is intended to be a place where educators share information.

• Revaluing: Coming to Know Who We Are and What We Can Do
  http://www.ncte.org/library/files/Free/Journals/vm/VM0101Revaluing.pdf

  Article from the September 2002 issue of Voices in the Middle in which the authors describe a project involving six eighth graders in a bilingual Reading Detective Club with the goal of helping them revalue themselves and what they were able to do as readers. As a result of their participation in the program, students' understanding of reading strategies improved a great deal, and they began to see bilingualism as a resource rather than a source of confusion. The authors make the case that when students believe their thinking and ideas are valued beyond getting a correct answer, their self-efficacy and engagement with reading are likely to increase. The article concludes with recommendations for classroom practice.

• Strategic Literacy Initiative
  http://www.wested.org/stratlit/

  General information about the research-based literacy-focused professional development initiative that has demonstrated results with high school students.

• Young Adult Literature: Middle & Secondary English-Language Arts
  http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/yalit.htm

  This site lists resources to support the curriculum in English and Language Arts for K-12 Education. It includes sections on African-American, Asian-American, Native American, and Hispanic literature

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