Grade ToEighth Grade
SynopsisMuhammad's Historically Responsive Literacy Framework is essential for all students, especially youth of colour, who traditionally have been marginalized in learning standards, school policies, and classroom practices. The framework promotes four learning goals-or pursuits: identity development, skill development, intellectual development, criticality. It is a work of considerable strength and raises significant questions for all white practitioners to ask themselves about their unconscious biases. Rachel Clarke, Independent Reading Consultant, The four-layered framework-- identity, skill development, intellectualism and criticality-- is essential for all youth in classrooms, especially youth of color, who traditionally have been marginalized in learning standards, policies, and school practices. Readers will learn how to redesign their learning goals, lesson plans, and the texts they use to teach. The framework offers a unique and breakthrough blend of multiple pedagogical approaches including cognitive, sociocultural, and critical and sociohistorical theories., Muhammad's Historically Responsive Literacy Framework is essentialfor all students, especially youth of colour, who traditionallyhave been marginalized in learning standards, school policies, andclassroom practices.The framework promotes four learning goals-or pursuits., In this book, award-winning researcher Dr. Gholdy Muhammad presents a teaching and learning model that brings the history of illustrious African American literary societies to bear on the way we teach today. The four-layered framework-identity, skills development, intellect, and criticality-is essential for all young students, especially students of color, who traditionally have been marginalized by learning standards, government policies, and school practices. Dr. Muhammad offers a blend of pedagogical approaches that revolutionize teaching and learning across grade levels and content areas. You'll learn how to design historically responsive learning goals and lesson plans that put this groundbreaking research into practice. Book jacket.