Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2011

Abstract

This article describes the classroom interactions surrounding teacher read-alouds of nonfiction texts in the classroom of a teacher who strived for cultural relevancy. Participants in this study were one European American teacher and her upper- elementary students who lived in the surrounding working-class neighborhood; all but two students identified as Latino or African American. Data were collected for two consecutive school years using ethnographic and discourse analytic methods. Analyses showed that the teacher took up three social positions (i.e., cultural advocate, facilitator of classroom interactions, and teacher of reading) by animating texts and students.

Comments

This article was originally published in the Journal of Literacy Research. Copyright © 2011 Laura A. May. Published by Sage Publications.

The post-print (post peer-reviewed) version is posted here with the permission of the author.

Share

COinS