Christopher J. Wagner – författare

Centered around the idea that literacy teaching is more than the transmission of strategies and skills, this volume serves as a foundation for approaching literacy from an identity perspective. Through incisive and accessible chapters from top scholars, it introduces readers to the concept of literate identities, examining them across ages and grade levels to present an overview of how scholars and educators can use this concept in their research and teaching. Organized by developmental level with sections on early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, and cross-age research, contributors reveal how literacy can be framed as an identity practice to engage students and support their development. Applying a range of theoretical perspectives and frameworks, each chapter identifies the identity theory used, explains the relevant methodology and research questions, covers implications for practice, and includes questions or prompts for discussion. The volume reveals how understanding literate identities is at the heart of effective and inclusive literacy instruction by addressing key topics, including culturally relevant pedagogy, intersectionality, and transnationalism, among others. Illuminating multiple pathways to understanding students as readers and writers, this book is essential for teachers, scholars, and researchers in literacy education, research methods, and multicultural education.

Centered around the idea that literacy teaching is more than the transmission of strategies and skills, this volume serves as a foundation for approaching literacy from an identity perspective. Through incisive and accessible chapters from top scholars, it introduces readers to the concept of literate identities, examining them across ages and grade levels to present an overview of how scholars and educators can use this concept in their research and teaching. Organized by developmental level with sections on early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, and cross-age research, contributors reveal how literacy can be framed as an identity practice to engage students and support their development. Applying a range of theoretical perspectives and frameworks, each chapter identifies the identity theory used, explains the relevant methodology and research questions, covers implications for practice, and includes questions or prompts for discussion. The volume reveals how understanding literate identities is at the heart of effective and inclusive literacy instruction by addressing key topics, including culturally relevant pedagogy, intersectionality, and transnationalism, among others. Illuminating multiple pathways to understanding students as readers and writers, this book is essential for teachers, scholars, and researchers in literacy education, research methods, and multicultural education.

An essential text in literacy and teaching methods, this book introduces the concept of identity in literacy learning and provides guidance toward designing identity-based literacy instruction in early childhood and elementary classrooms. An identity approach to literacy learning asks teachers to see and engage with the ways that children make and remake ideas about who they are as readers and writers as they learn about language and literacy.This book explores what literacy teaching can look like when literacy is reframed as an identity practice, and it prepares readers to design literacy instruction using an identity-based instruction framework that focuses on four strands of teaching and learning: community, skills, membership, and reflection and narrative-making. Each chapter draws on examples of units and lessons developed by teachers using the four strands of the identity-based instruction framework, including instructional activities and resources.This is a foundational book for pre-service and in-service teachers to learn and develop the necessary tools to implement literacy instruction that recognizes and responds to the many possibilities of who children are becoming as readers and writers.