Literacy Resources For Educators:
Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century
This site lists books titles, authors, publishers and main themes. The jury selected books fit into three main categories: (1) Literature for children, (2) Creative writing, and (3) Scholarship/non-fiction.
details African Information for K-12 Education
This is a great link for K-12 educator who is looking for resources of African.
details Amazon.com
There are more than ten books about multicultural education on Amazon.com. These books are particularly for K-12 educators. For example, titles include Black Teachers on Teaching, The Dreamkeepers, and Other People's Children and more. Every book listed has a brief description.
details American Literature Resources
This section includes the resources for use in the classroom as well as other items of interest to teachers:
details Books on Anti-racist and Multicultural Education
This site offers a book list for both teachers and students. The site has more than twenty titles on the multicultural education list. All books are recommended for K-12 grade children. This site which includes pictures of book covers and very clear descriptions of each book.
details CAMBIOS
The site offers book titles about multiculturalism for educators and children. The site contents include Bibliographies, Teacher Guides and other links, it will be helpful for visitors to look at the site map and check all the links.
details Crossing Borders: Multicultural Literature in the Classroom
This page discusses the need for multicultural literature and methods for its utilization from the Journal of Educational Issue of Language Minority Students. The article discusses how teachers use multicultural literature and computer tools to help children learn. The site also provides links to Children's Literature Illustrated Books for K-12 children.
details Early American Literature
Welcome to the Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC) American Literature page. The ISLMC is a meta-site at which teachers, librarians, parents and students can preview curriculum related materials.
details Education Place
Pre-K–8 resources for teachers, students, and parents. Includes Reading/Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Intervention, Professional Development, activities, games, and textbook support.
details Educational Portals and Starting Point
Have you ever felt like you just go from one "links site" to another and never reach any quality information? If so, you need to locate a quality education portal that will take you directly to good informational and instructional materials.
details How to Choose the Best Multicultural Books
In this article you'll find links to fifty great books, plus advice from top educators, writers, and illustrators on how to spot literature that transcends stereotypes.
details Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
This is an excellent website about Native American Resources on the Internet.
details Latino American Literature in the Classroom
Latino American Literature in the classroom is an original look at how ethnic literature enters the U.S. classroom and the literary canon. Delia Poey compares the risks faced by teachers and interpreters of well-known Latino/a or Latin American texts.
details Learner.org: Reactions in Chemistry
Available in 2003, Reactions in Chemistry is an eight-part workshop for the professional development of high school chemistry and physical science teachers.
details Multicultural Book Review Homepage
This site is dedicated to reviews of multicultural books, with an emphasis on books for use in the K-12 classroom. However, the archive of past reviews contains a number of books useful for all age and reading levels.
details Multicultural Book Reviews for K-12 Educators
Educators can go to the section he/she wish to look at by choosing the main theme on the list such as African American Literary, Titles in English from other countries and share their personal resources.
details Multicultural Children's Literature
This website is from Michigan State University Libraries. The MSU Libraries are continuously updating their collection of materials which offer suggestions for maintaining a welcoming classroom for all children and showcase best practices in presenting different cultures to children. This page both highlights the Libraries' Resources and provides links to some of the best sites on the Web.
details Native Americans and Literature
This is an excellent resources for educator to teach Native American. The page lists many useful Native American books which talk about Native American's culture and traditional.
details Research & Instruction Guides Diversity & Ethnic Studies
This site provides a book title list about White culture studies. Resources include books, video and film related to the following categories: Fiction/Memoirs/Autobiographies, Historical and critical studies, Essays and Articles, and Film/Video/Documentaries.
details Rewriting Literacy: Culture and the Discourse of the Other (Critical Studies in Education & Culture)
This book is the first of its kind to link such fields as linguistics, anthropology, sociolinguistics, and education to illustrate how the problem of literacy is embedded in a social and cultural context.
details Scholastic: Book Finder
Scholastic's Multicultural Book Finder enables you to search by cultures and types of communities to get a short summary of each book. You can also use the BookFinder locate other genres of books.
details Smart Mobs: The Next social Revolution (by Howard Rheingold)
In his new book, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, Rheingold explains how the coming wave will be the result of super-efficient mobile communications-cellular phones, personal digital assistants, and wireless-paging and Internet-access devices that will allow us to connect with anyone, anywhere, anytime.
details Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children
This list was compiled from a survey that ran at this web site during the spring of 1999. Parents and teachers alike will find it extremely useful in selecting quality literature for children.
details Tech Integration: Publishers
These are information and links to many publishers of educational information and technology. They are mostly Internet-based source and producing computer-based instructional materials.
details The American Immigration Home Page
The American Immigration Home Page was started as a part of a school project for a 10th grade American History Class. The project was meant to give information as to how immigrants not only were treated, but also why they decided to come to America. Feel free to explore the rest of the site.
details The Multicultural Review
The Multicultural Review is a quarterly journal for teachers at all grade levels, college professors, librarians, administrators, and anyone else who is interested in learning about new developments and trends in the field of cultural diversity. The journal features reviews of new print and non-print resources on multicultural topics, and articles that explore current issues.
details UNESCO: Education-Literacy Portal
Literacy is an indispensable means for effective social and economic participation, contributing to human development and poverty reduction.
The Literacy Portal aims to provide a platform for information-sharing on literacy projects and activities undertaken around the world and enhance UNESCO’s capacity in coordinating the United Nation Literacy Decade (UNLD) in building partnership at all level.
details Using Multicultural Literature to Teach Reading Processes
This is a great site for educator. The site provides an online slide show by Dr. Jill Kerper Mora from San Diego State University.
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