I Can Fly: Teaching Narratives and Reading Comprehension to African American and other Ethnic Minority Students
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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I Can Fly: Teaching Narratives and Reading Comprehension to African American and other Ethnic Minority Students
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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I Can Fly: Teaching Narratives and Reading Comprehension to African American and other Ethnic Minority Students

I Can Fly: Teaching Narratives and Reading Comprehension to African American and other Ethnic Minority Students

by Angela Marshall Rickford
I Can Fly: Teaching Narratives and Reading Comprehension to African American and other Ethnic Minority Students

I Can Fly: Teaching Narratives and Reading Comprehension to African American and other Ethnic Minority Students

by Angela Marshall Rickford

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780761812807
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 02/18/1999
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 328
Product dimensions: 6.46(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

chapter 1 Foreword
chapter 2 Preface
chapter 3 Acknowledgments
chapter 4 Introduction
chapter 5 Conceptual Framework and Literature Review
chapter 6 The Research Site: Community, Classroom, Students
chapter 7 Culture-Based Classroom Discipline and Organization
chapter 8 Structural Analysis of the Six Study Narratives
chapter 9 Research Design and Methods
chapter 10 Quantitative Results: An Overview
chapter 11 Narrative Genre and Literal Meaning Questions
chapter 12 Interpretive Reading and Critical Evaluation Questions
chapter 13 Effect of Story Length in Higher Order Questions
chapter 14 Creative Reading Questions
chapter 15 Creative Reading Questions, and Effect of Ethnicity and Gender
chapter 16 Summary, Implications, and Conclusions
chapter 17 Appendix A: Stories and Comprehension Questions
chapter 18 Appendix B: Teacher Interview Protocol
chapter 19 Notes
chapter 20 References
chapter 21 Index
chapter 22 About the Author
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