Living Poverty and Literacy Learning: Sanctioning Topics of Students' Lives
By: Richard Meyer, Stephanie Jones
Published: 12/2004
Uploaded: 08/18/2006
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Pockets: Teachers College Faculty, Curriculum & Teaching (Department), Curriculum and Teaching (Program), Teachers College Program Collections, Stephanie Jones Collection
Tags: Academic achievement, Elementary school students, literacy, Poverty

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Description/Abstract: Teachers' response to stories of poverty can either calm or confirm children's experiences. Here, Jones talks about her experience talking to Cadence, a young white girl who attends a K-8 elementary school in a predominantly white, high-poverty urban neighborhood. Jones admits that in conversing with Cadence, she realized that children would reveal their lives - lives that are lived in class - through their stories and their connections to literature.

Source: Language Arts
Volume: 81
Issue: 6
Pages: 461-469
ISSN: 03609170