Books can provide an entry point to civic engagement at all levels. The picture books and chapter books included in this guide provide a way for today’s elementary school students to learn about democracy and become an engaged citizen.
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Translanguaging is a communicative practice of bilinguals and multilinguals, that is, it is a practice whereby bilinguals and multilinguals use their entire linguistic repertoire to communicate and make meaning (GarcÃa, 2009; GarcÃa, Ibarra Johnson, & Seltzer, 2017) It is through that lens that we have partnered with teacher educators and bilingual education experts, Drs.
Read moreWritten by Bridget Wilson The only sounds anyone can hear for the first fifteen minutes of class are fifth graders turning the pages of their self-selected books as they anticipate what will happen next. As soon as the timer goes off, sighs of disappointment echo through the room, followed by students’ desperate pleas: “Can we
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A few weeks ago Penguin Random House Education ventured out to Brooklyn, New York to hand deliver our new Classroom Libraries directly to P.S. 273 Wortman. The Brooklyn school reached out to us to help support their students’ literacy growth with Classroom Libraries earlier this summer. When we learned they had no way to move
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