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Welcoming Their Worlds: Rethinking Literacy Instruction through Community Mapping
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Dunsmore, KaiLonnie; Ordoñez-Jasis, Rosario; Herrera, George – Language Arts, 2013
In this article we look at how a community of practice in one midsize urban K-12 school district engaged in a community mapping process to discover, gather, and analyze a rich array of community and home resources in order to create classroom practices and curriculum that integrated the literacies of home and school and led to transformed student…
Descriptors: Literacy, Communities of Practice, Elementary School Teachers, Urban Schools