Using Multicultural Literature
to Teach Reading Processes

 

Jill Kerper Mora
San Diego State University

2/21/99

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Table of Contents

Using Multicultural Literature to Teach Reading Processes

How Cultural Values Are Formed

How Personal Values Are Formed

Multicultural Literature

Reading Processes in Literature

Description

Description in Multicultural Literature

Literary Discrimination

Literary Discrimination in Multicultural Literature

Relation

Relation in Multicultural Literature

Interpretation

Interpretation in Multicultural Literature

Generalization

Generalization in Multicultural Literature

Evaluation

Evaluation in Multicultural Literature

Valuing

Valuing in Multicultural Literature

Creation

Creation in Multicultural Literature

Author: Jill Kerper Mora
Copyright 1999
 


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Sources:

Ada. A.F. (1988). Creative reading: A relevant methodology for language minority children. In L. M. Malave (Ed.). NABE '87. Theory, research and application:  Selected papers (pp. 97-111). Buffalo, NY: State University of New York.

Roe, B.D., Stoodt, B.B., & Burns, P.C. (1987). Secondary School Reading Instruction: The Content Areas. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

Collie, J. & Slater, S. (1987). Literature in the language classroom. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Crawford, L. W. (1993). Language and literacy learning in multicultural classrooms. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

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Literacy Instruction and Multicultural Literature

Click here to go to an instructional module on cultural diversity in the classroom.

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