Literacy Matters - Vol 21 - Winter 2021

Paris, D., & Alim, H. S. (Eds.). (2017). Culturally sustaining pedagogies: Teaching and learning for justice in a changing world . Teachers College Press.

Tsai, M. L. (2017). Narrative characteristics of kindergarten children from three areas in Taiwan.

Rodríguez, A. D. (2009). Culturally relevant books: Connecting Hispanic students to the curriculum. Gist: Education and Learning Research Journal , (3), 11-29.

In S. Garvis & N. Pramling (Eds.), Narratives in early childhood education: Communication, sense making and lived experience (pp. 29–44). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.

Souto-Manning, M., & Rabadi-Raol, A. (2018). (Re) Centering quality in early childhood education: Toward intersectional justice for minoritized children. Review of Research in Education , 42 (1), 203-225. Strekalova-Hughes, E., &Wang, X. C. (2019). Perspectives of children from refugee backgrounds on their family storytelling as a culturally sustaining practice. Journal of Research in Childhood Education , 33 (1), 6-21.

Watanabe Kganetso, L. M. (2017). Creating and using culturally sustaining informational texts. Reading Teacher , 70 (4), 445–455.

Ylvisaker, M. (2006). Self-coaching: A context-sensitive, person-centered approach to social communication after traumatic brain injury. Brain Impairment , 7 (3) 246-258.

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Taylor, S. K. (2011). Identity texts as decolonized writing: Beyond the cowboys and Indians meta-narrative. Writing & Pedagogy , 3 (1), 289-304.

Yopp, R.H., & Yopp, H.K. (2006). Informational text as read-alouds at school and home. Journal of Literacy Research, 38 (1), 37–51.

 Dr. Crystal P. Glover is an Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at Winthrop University. She also serves as a Winthrop Faculty in Residence at Ebinport Elementary School in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Crystal’s research interests include culturally responsive and sustaining literacy practices in early childhood teacher education, preparing teachers to work with traditionally marginalized student populations, and the retention of preservice and practicing teachers of color. She recently co-edited the book Toward Culturally Sustaining Teaching: Early Childhood Educators Honor Children with Practices for Equity and Change along with Dr. Kindel Turner Nash and Dr. Bilal Polson. Dr. Glover may be contacted at crystalpglover@gmail.com .

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