
Reading, Writing, and Talk
Teaching for Equity and Justice in the Early Grades
Teachers' College Press
2nd Edition
Published on 24. December 2024
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-8077-8631-4 (ISBN)
Description
This new edition of the bestseller, Reading, Writing, and Talk, responds to the urgent need for creating language and literacy pathways that are inclusive, intentional, and center wholeness and belonging. The authors explain, show, and offer critical reflections on the development, teaching, and learning of reading, writing, and talk in early childhood and the early grades--across language practices, dis/abilities, and contexts. This second edition troubles whose reading, writing, and talk belongs in schools, offering insights into and examples of fostering belonging in the classroom. It elucidates the racialization of academic language and analyzes school-sponsored language and literacy curricula to demonstrate the power of expansive literacies and linguistic justice in practice. Readers will enter classrooms where teachers learn from and alongside children, families, and communities about identities, practices, values, funds of knowledge, and more. This update of the popular text offers a wealth of knowledge and examples to help educators truly and fully teach reading, writing, and talk for equity and justice.
Book Features:
Offers a warm invitation to shift mindsets and consider possibilities for furthering language and literacy development with young children.
Brings to light powerful concepts like linguistic justice and communicative belonging through powerful classroom scenarios.
Centers Black, Indigenous, and other children, teachers, families, and communities of color.
Explains how oral language, reading, and writing develop and can be taught in the early grades across languages (bilingual, multilingual), abilities, and contexts.
Focuses on constructing classrooms that foster belonging and on teaching for equity and justice.
Book Features:
Offers a warm invitation to shift mindsets and consider possibilities for furthering language and literacy development with young children.
Brings to light powerful concepts like linguistic justice and communicative belonging through powerful classroom scenarios.
Centers Black, Indigenous, and other children, teachers, families, and communities of color.
Explains how oral language, reading, and writing develop and can be taught in the early grades across languages (bilingual, multilingual), abilities, and contexts.
Focuses on constructing classrooms that foster belonging and on teaching for equity and justice.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for the First Edition:"This book is an important read for current and future primary grade teachers who want to help children achieve their full potential through culturally-relevant and inclusive instruction." - Teachers College Record
"In Reading, Writing, and Talk, Souto-Manning and Martell succeed in honoring their commitment to 'reading words, but also reading worlds--and rewriting them transformatively, in just and inclusive ways.'" - Journal of Education
More details
Series
Edition
Second Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8077-8631-4 (9780807786314)
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Persons
Mariana Souto-Manning is president of the Erikson Institute.
Jessica Martell and Benelly Alvarez are educators in New York City's public schools.
Jessica Martell and Benelly Alvarez are educators in New York City's public schools.