Product Description: Using a multiliteracies theoretical framework highlighting social diversity and multimodality as central in the process of meaning making, this book examines literacy teaching and learning as embedded in cultural, linguistic, racial, sexual, and gendered contexts and explores ways to foster learning and achievement for diverse students in various settings...read more

Product Description: This text uses positioning theory as a guiding framework to examine teaching and learning in literacy-related contexts. These contexts include a range of literacy practices, participants, and settings. Authors examine how teachers respond to multicultural texts, how adults guide children to appropriate academic discourse, how children engage in meaningfultalk about texts-or avoid that talk, and how researchers write up and position themselves and their participants...read more

Product Description: Within a clear conceptual framework, this book explores ways that teachers, reading specialists, administrators, and teacher educators can provide more effective literacy instruction to K-9 students from diverse ethnic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds...read more