Engaging in Culturally Responsive Literacy Practice: Reading and Writing Informational Texts in Rural Place Context

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Abstract

This paper reports on a collaborative action research study involving a school-district-university partnership. The research team included two university professors, two teacher researchers, and two preservice teachers. The focus of this research was to investigate responsive teaching and learning literacy practices as students engaged in reading and writing culturally relevant informational texts reflecting local place context and to examine the meaning-making processes that students used while interacting with these texts. Primary students used digital tools and technologies to make books reflecting their lived experiences and shared these with others in their community. This research is significant because it brings attention to culturally responsive literacy practices with diverse learners.

Author

• Deborah Toope, Acadia University