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| Title | Engaging Multilingual and Multicultural Students in Reading Vol. 57 (3), |
| Body | From: OELA Engaging Multilingual and Multicultural Students in Reading Vol. 57 (3), pp. 242-252 Terry Meier explains in The Reading Teacher that it can be difficult engaging some children in reading. She gives examples of preschoolers from very different cultural and linguistic communities who "use language in powerful ways to negotiate relationships with other people and to accomplish his or her own social purposes," yet may not become engaged in book reading or literacy activities in preschool or kindergarten because of an upbringing that does not place significance on books. The cultural environment a child grows up in, particularly the significance reading plays in that child's life, affects his/her relationship with books. Thus, a child could be have sophisticated speaking abilities, yet find little engaging about the written word. Meier offers three suggestions to enhance the preschoolers' and kindergartners' experiences with books. These are: (1) "Choose books that relate to children's lives"; (2) "Teach book reading behaviors explicitly"; and (3) "Make books come alive." To liven up books, she says teachers should engage the children in meaningful conversations about them, create puppet characters the students can interview or create new stories about or just dramatize the story, use teacher-made audiotapes for students to listen to. Meier also gives a list of children's books that are particularly effective at developing an attachment between children and the text. The Reading Teacher is published by: International Reading Association 800 Barksdale Road Box 8139 Newark, DE 19714-8139 http://www.reading.org |
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