Language Arts - Volume 101, Issue 5, 2024

Three Asian American teachers/teacher educators apply AsianCrit and culturally sustaining pedagogy to honor the history and vision of Asian American studies from the classroom.

Applying critical content analysis to analyze three Caldecott Award-winning books, this study suggested identifying inaccuracies, unauthenticity, and misrepresentation in books as resources to develop critical literacy.

Using critical content analysis and the lens of AsianCrit, this study explores Asian American children’s racial trauma and counter-stories of healing in Finding Junie Kim.

Although most Americans know about haiku, another East Asian form of poetry is less widely shared in American classrooms: Korea’s sijo. Sijo poems are longer than haiku (with 44-46 syllables) and by incorporating sijo into the curriculum, teachers can expose students to a new form of poetry and expand their knowledge of East Asian culture. This article provides teachers with the tools and resources needed to teach sijo.

Grounded in counter-storytelling and AsianCrit, this essay describes the authors’ experience hosting a teacher workshop on facilitating critical literature circles with elementary students.

As states across the US begin to mandate the teaching of Asian American histories, the authors offer guidance for teaching this content alongside children’s literature.

The 2023 Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts are of enduring quality, inviting readers to deeply engage with language in expansive and varied ways.

Teaching within a Vietnamese Two-Way Dual Language Program, the author draws upon her Asian-American background as a reader and writer to inform her pedagogy, emphasizing the promotion of students’ identities as readers, writers, and individuals.