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ERIC Number: EJ1331022
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 11
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0034-0561
EISSN: N/A
Co-Creating Multilingual Books with Children to Foster Their Literacies
Harris, Pauline; Camaitoga, Ufemia; Brock, Cynthia H.; Diamond, Alexandra; McInnes, Elspeth; Neill, Bec
Reading Teacher, v75 n5 p555-565 Mar-Apr 2022
This article describes how young children and their families and community members came together with researchers to co-create books in children's languages about their worlds in Fiji, to foster children's multilingual literacies. The co-creation of these books in children's and families' Fijian homes and community settings connected with their voices, languages, and literacies, to ensure both the books and the processes for co-creating them would be culturally sustaining and effective for children's multilingual literacy growth. Among the research team here, two were based in Fiji and the rest were based in Australia. We learned many lessons in our journey from preschools and classrooms in Australia to children's homes and communities in Fiji, which we bring back to share with teachers internationally through "The Reading Teacher."
Wiley. Available from: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Tel: 800-835-6770; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2191/en-us
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Fiji; Australia
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A