A review of daily conversations and practices at home: Exploring practices that promote early literacy in Spanish-speaking homes and home-school interactions [PDF]
, 2020 Coming from a low-income heritage language family, like 17% of Latino families, entails important academic risk factors related to lower scores on reading tests. Considering that it is estimated that Latino students will represent 50% of the U.S.
Valdes, Maria Cecilia
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Literacy Access through Storytime: An Ethnographic Study of Public Library Storytellers in a Low-Income Neighborhood [PDF]
, 2019 While early literacy achievement continues to be stratified by social class in the United States, public libraries often offer programs such as “storytime” in order to bolster the literacy development of youth in their communities.
Babchuk, Wayne A. +2 more
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Introduction of Volume X Issue 1
WOW Stories, 2022 This issue of WOW Stories features vignettes from six global literacy communities. Two of the communities are cross-cultural collaborations between educators in the U.S. and in China and Guatemala. The other four vignettes come from U.S.
Kathy G. Short
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Bedding down the embedding : IL reality in a teacher education programme [PDF]
, 2003 Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is one of Australia's largest universities,enrolling 30,000 students. Our Information Literacy Framework and Syllabus wasendorsed as university policy in Feb 2001.
Aspland, Tania L., Hobbs, Helen F.
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Young Children’s Cross-Cultural Studies with Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns
WOW Stories, 2021 Using global literature and methods of art integration in elementary schools, this vignette discusses how teaching through global picturebooks is an important way to support students in embracing diversity through teaching them about the histories ...
Chika Hayashi-Willis
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The Role of Cultural Competency on Treatment Adherence and Health Literacy for Persons of Color Living with HIV/AIDS [PDF]
, 2020 The Role of Cultural Competency on Treatment Adherence and Health Literacy for Persons of Color Living with HIV/AIDS Rohan Arora, Depts. of Psychology, Medical Humanities, & Chemistry, with Dr. Faye Pritchard, VCU Honors College For decades, the American
Arora, Rohan
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Navigating Research Waters: The Research Mentor Program at the University of New Hampshire at Manchester [PDF]
, 2006 This essay uses a journal format to describe the research mentor program at the University of New Hampshire at Manchester (UNHM). Librarians, Learning Center staff, and writing instructors at UNHM have collaborated to train class-linked tutors to present
Fensom, Gail +4 more
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LITERACY FOR LEARNING IN FURTHER EDUCATION IN THE UK: A SYMPOSIUM [PDF]
, 2005 The Literacies for Learning in Further Education (LfLFE) project, a collaboration between two universities – Stirling and Lancaster – and four further education colleges – Anniesland, Perth, Lancaster and Morecambe, and Preston, funded for three years ...
Edwards, Richard +2 more
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Building Connections through Exploring Stories of Migration
WOW StoriesThis article reflects upon using global literature that reflects students experiences in the classroom. Agnes Zapata created a unit with the essential questions: (1) “How do we resist systems of oppression?” (2) “How can we build hope when the world ...
Agnes Zapata
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Frameworks for Literacy Education Reform [PDF]
, 2016 Research is the differentiator between the reliable and the uncertain, the element that provides an unimpeachable credential of practical validation. When advocating for literacy education reforms, stakeholders should settle for nothing less, avoiding ...
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