Teaching African American Learners to Read
Subtitle: Perspectives and Practices
Contributors: Bill Hammond (Editor); Mary Eleanor Rhodes Hoover (Editor); Irving Pressley Mcphail (Editor)
Publisher: International Reading Association
Published: January 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780872075405
Subjects: English language: reading skills; Teaching of a specific subject; Education; Education / Teaching; English; Language Experience Approach; Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading; African American children; Reading; United States
Description: Despite many education reform efforts, African American children remain the most miseducated students in the United States. To help you mend this critical problem, this collection of original, adapted, and previously published articles provides examples of research-based practices and programs that successfully teach African American students to read. Thoughtful commentary on historic and current issues, discussion of research-based best practices, and examples of culturally appropriate instruction help you examine the role of education, identify best practices, consider the significance of culture in the teaching-learning process, and investigate some difficult issues of assessment.