Dream Wakers
eBook - ePub

Dream Wakers

Mentor Texts That Celebrate Latino Culture

  1. 162 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Dream Wakers

Mentor Texts That Celebrate Latino Culture

Book details
Table of contents
Citations

About This Book

There is power that resides in outstanding culturally diverse literature'sa power that has the potential to engage students in reading and teach them about the art and craft of writing.

In Dream Wakers: Mentor Texts That Celebrate Latino Culture, Ruth Culham focuses her love of children's literature'sand her decades of work developing the traits of writing'son books that celebrate Latino life and culture. She provides a wide variety of ideas to teach writing using some of the richest and most beautiful children's books available.

Dream Wakers gives you:

  • An annotated list of more than 120 books with do-it-today lesson ideas for teaching the traits of writing'sIdeas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, and Conventions. More than half of the books listed are bilingual or offer English and/or Spanish editions.
  • Eleven original, insightful essays by renowned children's authors of some of the featured books
  • A handy reference chart that helps teachers locate books quickly by trait, genre, language, and author/publisher information.

Ruth encourages all of us to make sure students of all backgrounds have access to high-quality, culturally diverse texts and recognize the difference those texts will make in their reading lives, as well as in their perception of themselves as a thinkers, learners, and citizens.

Frequently asked questions

Simply head over to the account section in settings and click on “Cancel Subscription” - it’s as simple as that. After you cancel, your membership will stay active for the remainder of the time you’ve paid for. Learn more here.
At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.
Both plans give you full access to the library and all of Perlego’s features. The only differences are the price and subscription period: With the annual plan you’ll save around 30% compared to 12 months on the monthly plan.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Yes, you can access Dream Wakers by Ruth Culham in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Education & Professional Development. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
ISBN
9781003841913
Edition
1
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Professional Development

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chapter 1 Words to Awaken Dreams: The Importance of Mentor Texts that Celebrate Latino Culture
  9. Chapter 2 The Center of Attention: Ideas
  10. Chapter 3 The Meticulous Planner: Organization
  11. Chapter 4 The Energizer: Voice
  12. Chapter 5 The Nitpicker: Word Choice
  13. Chapter 6 The Conversationalist: Sentence Fluency
  14. Chapter 7 The Curmudgeon: Conventions
  15. Epilogue Dream Wakers: Final Thoughts
  16. Appendix A: The Book Selection Process
  17. Appendix B: Books and Traits at a Glance
  18. Professional References Cited