Culturally Responsive Teaching

For literacy teaching and learning to be culturally relevant and responsive, educators must begin by aligning curriculum and instruction with students’ backgrounds, life experiences, and cultures. The following resources offer perspectives on everything from diverse children’s and young adult literature to creating equitable student-centered classrooms.

Additional Resources on Culturally Responsive Literacy Instruction

• Instruction That Works With Emergent Bilingual Students
  Amanda P. Goodwin and Robert Jimeñez
  INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE (member resource)
• Disrupting Instructional Paradigms by Embracing Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
  Glendaliz Martinez Almonte
  WEBINAR
• Journey to a Student-Centered Classroom: Equitable Practices That Make a Difference
  Towanda Harris
  WEBINAR
• Supporting Multilingual Learners With Translanguaging Strategies
  ILA Intensive featuring Ofelia García, Kate Seltzer, Carla España, Luz Yadira Herrera, Mark B. Pacheco, Shakina Rajendram, and Heather H. Woodley. Hosted by Rabia Hos.
  WEBINAR
• Teaching Vulnerable Youth How to Read and Write: Lessons About Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Meaning
  David E. Kirkland
  VIDEO
• Opportunity-Centered Teaching in the “New” Focus on Race
  H. Richard Milner
  VIDEO
• Engaging Middle School Students in Disciplinary Literacy Through Culturally Relevant Historical Inquiry
  Linda Kucan, Emily Rainey, and Byeong-Young Cho
  ARTICLE | Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (subscription required)
• Using Culturally Relevant Pedagogy to Influence Literacy Achievement for Middle School Black Males
  Shontoria Walker and Laveria Hutchison
  ARTICLE | Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (subscription required)
• What Does Culturally Informed Literacy Instruction Look Like?
  Laura Beth Kelly and Cara Djonko-Moore
  ARTICLE | The Reading Teacher (subscription required)
• Strategies for Multilingual Learners
  Curated by Rabia Hos
  RESOURCE COLLECTION
• Diversity and Family Literacy
  Catherine Compton-Lilly and Jennifer D. Turner
  INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE (member resource)
• Children's Rights to Excellent Literacy Instruction
  POSITION STATEMENT
• Right to Policies That Ensure Equitable Literacy Instruction
  James V. Hoffman, Brittany L. Frieson, and Scott Walter
  BRIEF