AERA Annual Meeting: Prioritizing Culture and Community in Literacy Learning (Table 20)

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Sat, April 13, 11:25am to 12:55pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B

Session Type: Roundtable Session

“Because Words Are All Around Us”: Kindergarten Students’ Reflections on Learning to Read - Nicole A. Mancevice, University of California - Los Angeles
Literacy Learning Is a Community Commitment: Partnerships and Possibilities - Heather Kenyon Casey, Rider University
Preservice Teachers’ Centering or Marginalization of Diversity in Their Selection and Description of Multicultural Texts - Ambyr R. Rios, Kansas State University; Michelle Nguyen Kwok, Texas A&M University; Sydney F. Zentell, Texas A&M University
Sociopolitical Comprehension Instruction: Using Multicultural Children's Literature to Engage Experiential Knowledge as Intellectual Meaning-Making - Saba Khan Vlach, University of Iowa; María G. Leija, University of Texas - San Antonio; Wintre Foxworth Johnson, University of Virginia
Transaction and Transformation: Revisioning Reader Response Criticism for Cultural Inclusion - Laurie Shirley Esposito, Independent Contractor; Lindsay Metzker-Epstein, Temple University; Desiree W. Cueto, University of Arizona