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Literacy Teaching

What are culturally responsive ways of teaching English and second language literacy in preK-12 schools?

• Toy Stories as Opportunities for Reflection in an Elementary Writers' Workshop: In collaboration with first-grade teacher Joanne Fitch, Professor Debbie Rowe developed the "toy story strategy"and several others that encouraged children to use drama and dramatic play as an entry point to story writing.
• Two Year Olds' Literacy Learning in a Developmentally Appropriate Preschool Curriculum: Debbie Rowe worked with classroom teachers to create a research-based literacy curriculum appropriate for 2-year-olds, then tracked their reading and writing response across the school year.
• The Digital Storytelling and Narrative Writing Project: Professor Kevin Leander is developing a new pedagogy for teaching narrative writing through the construction and analysis of digital stories. As they examine and produce both traditional narratives and digital stories, writers learn broad "dimensions" of composition (e.g., "voice," "transition," "scene") as well as the affordances of these dimensions in diverse media.
• Teaching and Learning about Writing through an Emerging Cultural Model: At a local urban high school, Professor Rich Milner is studying how teachers develop culturally responsive writing lessons among struggling students. An emerging model is used as a pedagogical and an epistemological tool to push the boundaries of difference among students and teachers.