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Perspectives on Practice: Counter-Storytelling with Front Desk: Critical Literature Circles in the Elementary Classroom
Grounded in counter-storytelling and AsianCrit this essay describes the authors’ experience hosting a teacher workshop on facilitating critical literature circles with elementary students.
Identifying Inaccuracies, Unauthenticity, and Misrepresentation in Multicultural Picturebooks as the Bridge to Critical Literacy
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.
Awards: The 2023 Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts
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.
Finding Junie Kim: Asian American Children’s Racial Trauma and Counter-Stories of Healing within a Transnational Context
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.
Perspectives on Practice: Sijo, a Korean Poetry Form, Fosters Connections and Amplifies Student Voices
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.
Journeys of Three Asian American Teachers: Uplifting Asian American Experiences in the Classroom
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.
Perspectives on Practice: Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month Is Not Enough: A Guide to Centering Asian American Histories and Narratives
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.
Writing Matters: Honoring Identities and Inviting Translanguaging in a Dual-Language Elementary Classroom
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.
From Language Arts to Learning Communities: Seeing the Bigger Picture with Multimodal Texts
Exploring the intersections of critical literacies and visual literacies to increase opportunities for deepening comprehension across multimodal texts.
Multimodal Reading and Design: Preservice and Practicing Teachers’ Graphic Narratives for Students
Preservice and practicing teachers analyzed and then designed innovative graphic narratives to understand and model the format for curricular inclusion in young adolescents’ learning.
Writing Matters: Somos Escritoras: Writing and Remembering During the COVID-19 Pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic Latina adolescent girls found community through writing art and storytelling in the Somos Escritoras online writing workshop.