KVS: Selecting Supportive Materials

Chapter 5

Invite students to use their:

• social
• cultural
• linguistic resources to...

1. construct
2. negotiate
3. interrogate meaning

Select texts that:

• reflect cultural and linguistic diversity
• represent diverse perspectives, purposes, authorial positions in a range of genres
• encourage students to become readers of visual images, music, intonation, etc...

also consider CL approach - texts that encourage

• disrupt the commonplace
• consider multiple viewpoints
• focus on sociopolitical
• Take Action

See the checklist on page 80 for selecting diverse texts