If I were writing the headline for the next newspaper story on the SATs, here’s what you’d see: “Seniors and Their SAT Scores Sabotaged by Low-Level Textbooks.” The literacy level of our secondary students is languishing because the kids are not reading what they need to be reading.
Centering Language and Student Voice in Multilingual Literacy Instruction [PDF] by C. Patrick Proctor, Rebecca D. Silverman, and Renata Love Jones
In this article, the authors draw from 3 years of intensive work with multilingual students and their teachers to describe four principles to guide multilingual literacy instruction.