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LITERACY TODAY
May/June 2021
Volume 38, Issue 6
Culturally
Responsive
Literature
• Cynthia Leitich Smith on
integrating works by Native authors
throughout the curriculum
• Why simply having diverse books
in your classroom isn’t enough
• Books that affirm who
readers are and who they
are becoming
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Denise Dávila: “As critical guides, teachers need
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BEING, BELONGING, BECOMING Children’s literature
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of years at the secondary level. They began using
might have previously asked for or had easier acc
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Including Latinx literature in a diverse
determine how to use these books with their stude
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I read the book, I proudly asked them, “What do y
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to be made to the way students accessed books, ho
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