Teaching African American learners to read : perspectives and practices / Bill Hammond, Mary Eleanor Rhodes Hoover, Irving Pressley McPhail, editors.

Format Book
Publication InfoNewark, DE : International Reading Association, ©2005.
Descriptionviii, 357 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
African American children--Education.
Reading--United States.

Other author/creatorHammond, Bill, 1945-
Other author/creatorHoover, Mary Rhodes.
Other author/creatorMcPhail, Irving Pressley.
Other author/creatorInternational Reading Association.
Contents Introduction / Bill Hammond, Mary Eleanor Rhodes Hoover, and Irving Pressley McPhail -- On literacy and liberation : the African American experience / Irving Pressley McPhail -- Pedagogy in ancient Kemet / Asa G. Hilliard III -- Effective schools for the urban poor / Ronald Edmonds -- Using a Black learning style / George Cureton -- Characteristics of Black schools at grade level revisited / Mary Eleanor Rhodes Hoover -- Bennett-Kew School : one school's turnaround in academic achievement / Nancy Ichinaga -- A critique of George Weber's study : inner-city children can be taught to read : four successful schools / Irving Pressley McPhail -- Using multicultural literature to create guided reading connections for African American learners / Linda B. Akanbi -- Working together for literacy : faces of hope / Rudine Sims Bishop -- Improving the reading comprehension skills of urban students : one high school's success story / E.R. Marnell Sr. and Bill Hammond -- Reading comprehension strategies for struggling middle school learners / Charlotte Rose Sadler -- Educating African American learners at risk : finding a better way / Dorothy S. Strickland -- Ebonics and culturally responsive instruction : what should teachers do? / Lisa Delpit -- Building blocks for literacy development : oral language / Kelli Harris-Wright -- Acknowledging the language of African American students : instruction that works / Sharroky Hollie -- Afro-American cognitive style : a variable in school success? / Barbara J. Shade -- Literacy development in the primary grades : promoting a self-sustaining learning community among teachers / Etta R. Hollins ... [et al.] -- Reading linguistic features : middle schools students' response to the African American literary tradition / Wanda M. Brooks -- A culturally based cognitive apprenticeship : teaching African American high school students skills in literary interpretation / Carol D. Lee -- Bias in reading, achievement, and admission tests for Black and other bidialectal students : a sociolinguistic, cultural, and political perspective / Mary Eleanor Rhodes Hoover, Robert L. Politzer, and Orlando Taylor -- Practice guidelines for the assessment of the African American child / California Speech-Language-Hearing Association Task Force on the Assessment of the African American Child -- Epilogue / Mary Eleanor Rhodes Hoover.
Local noteLittle-348786--305131055459+
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 2004024967
ISBN0872075400

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