{"product_id":"text-sets-multimodal-learning-for-multicultural-students-9789004368316","title":"Text Sets: Multimodal Learning for Multicultural Students","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eText Sets: Multimodal Learning for Multicultural Students integrates a multicultural approach to teaching with standards-based instruction and multimodal learning opportunities in a variety of content areas. This unique combination allows teachers to meet the demands of their curriculum while recognizing and honoring the diverse students in their classroom. Each chapter provides an annotated text set with a specific theme, curricular goals, and instructional activities that suggest ways for students to interact with the texts. In addition to providing ready-made text sets, it models a framework for teachers to build their own text sets based on the individual needs of their schools and communities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface xi \t Introduction xiii \tLisa Ciecierski  Part 1: Literacy and Language Arts  1. Using Literature to Teach Inference in the English\/Language Arts Classroom 3 \tWilliam P. Bintz  2. Understanding Those Who Are Different: A Text Set for Middle School Language Arts Curriculum 13 \tBethany Scullin  3. ‘Good Hair’: Exploring Race within Multicultural Preschool Curriculum 25 \tBrianna Foraker  4. Recognizing African Influences in Children’s Literature 33 \tTaylor Hair and Rachael Fleischaker  Part 2: Mathematics  5. Using Texts to See the Universality of Mathematics 45 \tJulie Nurnberger-Haag, Anita Alexander and Janis S. Mcteer  6. Using Literature as a Lens into the Standards for Mathematical Practice 59 \tCourtney Nagle  7. Counting Our Way through Kindergarten Using Text Sets 73 \tMolly Young  Part 3: Science and the Nature World  8. A Text Set Guided Tour of Biological Evolution 85 \tLisa Borgerding  9. Science as a Human Enterprise: The Power of Varied Backgrounds and Perspectives: A Text Set for Elementary and Middle School Science 99 \tBridget K. Mulvey  10. Using Text Sets to Teach STEM in the K-5 Classroom 107 \tWilliam P. Bintz, Sara D. Moore and Mila Rosa Librea-Carden  11. To Infinity and Beyond with Texts: A Text Set for High School Astronomy 117 \tAlexandria Twichell  Part 4: Historical Perspectives  12. Using Biographical Multicultural and International Literature across Content Areas 129 \tGumiko Monobe and Sharyn Turner  13. Trinidad Is a Paradise 149 \tJoanne Kilgour Dowdy  14. Understanding Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Test Set for High School American History 161 \tJoe Lendak  15. Beyond Names and Dates in World War II: A Text Set for High School History 167 \tMatthew Porter  Part 5: Exploring Cultural Connections  16. Día de Muertos – Day of the Dead: A Multicultural Tradition 177 \tMariana Romero-Gonzalez  17. Everyone Has a Story: What Is Yours? 185 \tShen Wen Tan  18. What Are You? A Text Set about Biracial Identity 193 \tShana M. Lee  19. The Way of My People: Addressing Students’ Heritage through Blackfoot Culture 201 \tLorianna Clarke-Alexander  Part 6: Communication through Language and Culture  20. Experiential Exercises in Lingo-Cultural Diversity 213 \tIrina Anokhin  21. Communication between the Deaf, the Culturally Deaf, Their Families, and the Hearing 221 \tLaura Beth Benner  22. Finding Peace through War 229 \tFitim Krasniqi  Part 7: Musical Journeys  23. Jazzin’ It up in the Elementary Music Classroom with Text Sets 239 \tRachael Fleischaker  24. The Blues: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Using Text Sets 251 \tKarl Martin  Part 8: Visual Art and What It Represents  25. Colors and Emotions 263 \tKaitlyn Culp  26. Aesthetics: It’s Not Always Black and White 269 \tKatheryn Werner  27. Women Artists and Women in Art 277 \tSue Kelewae  About the Contributors 287  Index 293","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210751992151,"sku":"9789004368316","price":47.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/text-sets-multimodal-learning-for-multicultural-students-9789004368316","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}