As you’re working to diversify your library, you might consider exploring the linguistic diversity of the students in your classroom and in American society at large. Linguistically diverse children’s books can help accomplish this! Read below to learn a bit more about dialects of English and speakers of English as a new language, then find… Read more »
Tag: Early Literacy
Diversifying Your Library
As you choose books for your classroom library, be sure that all children are represented in your selections. Include books with characters, authors, and illustrators representative of different ethnicities, races, cultures, abilities, and family structures. Buying books is not the only way to expand your library’s inventory. Consider visiting your local library and borrowing books… Read more »
Early Literacy
Welcome to the Early Childhood Center’s blog on early literacy! We work to promote research-to-practice in early childhood and K-3 classrooms, focusing especially on encouraging inclusion and culturally responsive pedagogy. Teaching early literacy well, in keeping with the best evidence AND differentiated to meet all students’ needs, is hard work! We’d like to help. Use… Read more »