I Can Fly: Teaching Narratives and Reading Comprehension to African American and Other Ethnic Minority Students - Hardcover

Angela Marshall Rickford

 
9780761812791: I Can Fly: Teaching Narratives and Reading Comprehension to African American and Other Ethnic Minority Students
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0761812792 ISBN 13: 9780761812791
Publisher: University Press of America (UK), 1998

Synopsis

I Can Fly highlights the critical importance of narrative structural analysis in teaching reading comprehension, while providing a system for constructing comprehension questions that are grounded conceptually in the structure of the stories that the students read, from both a practical, and theoretical, orientation. The author presents the idea that folk tales and ethnic literature provide excellent material for the teaching of reading, particularly to multicultural or minority populations, by increasing the cultural congruence and motivation for multicultural students through their inclusion of language, illustrations, situations, and perspectives in which they see themselves reflected. These conclusions arise from a two year study in a middle school classroom in California with low income, at risk students, most of them African American, but including Latinos and Pacific Islanders.

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About the Author

Angela Marshall Rickford is Assistant Professor in the College of Education at San Jose State University.

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Publisher
University Press of America (UK)
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0761812792
ISBN 13 
9780761812791
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
324