Community Literacy in Elementary Classrooms: Creating Inclusive Literacy Learning Environments

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Community Literacy in Elementary Classrooms: Creating Inclusive Literacy-Learning Environments builds on the foundations of culturally relevant and responsive pedagogy by examining the role of a schools community in creating meaningful and empowering literacy learning opportunities for elementary students. Practicing teachers and graduate students will gain new insights into the application of culturally responsive pedagogy by focusing on their students families and communities. Undergraduate preservice teachers who read this book will learn about the importance of creating literacy lessons that immerse their future students in cultural competence and critical consciousness (Ladson-Billings, 1995) so that they will enter the profession ready to connect to their students families and communities and create authentic, meaningful literacy lessons. This text will greatly enhance literacy methods courses, as well as culturally responsive teaching methods.

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Professor Jacqueline Easley received her Ed.D. in Reading Education from Northern Illinois University, her M.A. in Reading, with her certificate as a K-12 Reading Specialist, from Concordia University-Chicago, and her B.A. in Elementary Education with minors in Math and Art from Concordia College. She joined the Carthage faculty in 2006.