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| support students as they develop the literacy appropriate to their ages and abilities. |
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| Cultural sensitivity-reshaped curriculum |
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| mediated for culturally valued knowledge connect with standards based curriculum as well as individual students' backgrounds |
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| involve students in a variety of reading, writing, listening, speaking, and viewing behaviors throughout the lesson plan |
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| completeing assignments individually, but usually in small groups or pairs with the same time to share ideas and think critically about the work. |
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| Positive relations with families and communities |
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| will demonstrate clear connections with student families and communities in terms of curriculum content and relationships |
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| Multicultural and international literature |
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| is defined in various ways within the educational community |
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| Multicultural literature is narrowly defined as |
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| Literature about groups in this country that have been overshadowed and to various degrees disregarded by the dominant Euro-American culture |
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| Examples of multicultural literature |
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| racial, religious, and language groups |
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| Childrens multicultural literature |
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| addresses contemporary issues of race, religion, poverty, living with exceptionalities, and sexual orientation from the perspective of members of those groups. |
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| Evaluation and selection of multicultuaral literature should involve |
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| Authentic depiction of the cultural experience, Accuracy of cultural details in text and illustrations, positive images of minority characters, balance between historic and contemporary views of groups |
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| this award founded in 1969 is the annual award given to the African-American author and illustrator whose books published in the proceeding year are judged to be most outstanding inspirational and educational literature for children. |
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| This award founded in 1996 honors oustanding Latino Authors and illustrators of children's books |
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| So that students dont continue to chose books about characters like themselves |
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| The Voyages of Dr Dolittle |
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| Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats |
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| the first Caldecott Medal-winning book to have an African American as the protagonist |
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| There is still a shortage of multicultural literature |
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| even though the last several decades have seen a positive change in status |
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| of all the multicultural groups living in the United States this group has produced the largest and most rapidly growing childrens literature. Every genre is represented especially poetry. |
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| Asian American Literature |
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| is represented by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean because these groups have lived as microculutres longer than Vietnamese. |
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| Even though they make up more than 13 percent of the population and are the fastest growing population very few childrens books are published by |
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| Write books about Puerto Ricans and Mexican Americans |
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| Alma Flor Ada, George Anconda, Lulu Delacre, and Gary Soto |
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| From the Native American Prospective |
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| oppression by the white population is a pervasive theme. Appreciation, celebration, and protection of nature |
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| The children's literature that is by far the largest produced by the nonmainstream religious cultures in this country |
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| which are those having text in two languages, are appealing in the United States with greater frequency each year |
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| Children in ESOL/ELL programs and teachers of these programs |
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| Bilingual books are helpful for |
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| in the United States refers to those books originally written and published in countries other than the United States for children of those other countries and then published in this country |
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| a fluent style that retains some flavor of the country of origin |
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| Much of the childrens literature that was available during 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th century came from |
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| Other countries have become overshadowed |
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| With the rapid growth in the US childrens book field in the twentieth century |
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| Australia, Great Britian, and Canada |
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| Most international childrens books in the United States come from these English Speaking countries |
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| The largest number of translated books come from Western Europe |
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