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In a period of increasing economic and social uncertainty, how do immigrant communities come together to advocate for educational access and their rights? This book is based on a five-year university partnership with members from Indonesian, Vietnamese, Latino, Filipino, African American, and Irish American communities. Sharing rich examples, the authors examine how these diverse groups use language and literacy practices to advocate for greater opportunities. This unique partnership demonstrates how to draw on the knowledge and interests of a multilingual community to inform literacy teaching and learning, both in and out of school. It also provides guidelines for reimagining university/community collaborations and the practice of ethical partnering.

In a period of increasing economic and social uncertainty, how do immigrant communities come together to advocate for educational access and their rights? This book is based on a five-year university partnership with members from Indonesian, Vietnamese, Latino, Filipino, African American, and Irish American communities. Sharing rich examples, the authors examine how these diverse groups use language and literacy practices to advocate for greater opportunities. This unique partnership demonstrates how to draw on the knowledge and interests of a multilingual community to inform literacy teaching and learning, both in and out of school. It also provides guidelines for reimagining university/community collaborations and the practice of ethical partnering.

This is both a comprehensive overview of major theoretical developments in literacy AND a teaching guide with in-depth classroom examples of how literacy can be used in daily classroom practice.In this expanded and completely updated second edition, Handsfield introduces the most influential theories and models of reading and literacy—from cognitive and information-processing theories that underpin foundational skills to social constructionist and critical theories that support socially just instructional practices in today’s post-digital landscape. Focusing on how these theories connect with different curricular approaches (K–12), the book shows how they both shape and are shaped by everyday literacy practices in classrooms.Readers will find detailed vignettes of classroom practice explored from various theoretical standpoints, illuminating how theory is brought to life in the classroom. Substantial attention is devoted to multilingual classrooms and communities, engaging with current sociopolitical issues in literacy curricula, and literacy teaching in the post-digital age. Chapters contain key questions for further exploration and user-friendly inset discussions that explore complex terminology and connect literacy theory to current debates and world events.New for the Second Edition!Examination of theories and practices related to the Science of Reading movement.Addition of the Active View of Reading and Positioning Theory.New and revised vignettes focused on translanguaging practices and student and teacher uses of generative AI in literacy teaching and learning across the disciplines.New and revised inset discussions highlighting recent insights from neuroscience, knowledge-building, and intersections between literacy instruction and social–emotional learning.

This is both a comprehensive overview of major theoretical developments in literacy AND a teaching guide with in-depth classroom examples of how literacy can be used in daily classroom practice.In this expanded and completely updated second edition, Handsfield introduces the most influential theories and models of reading and literacy—from cognitive and information-processing theories that underpin foundational skills to social constructionist and critical theories that support socially just instructional practices in today’s post-digital landscape. Focusing on how these theories connect with different curricular approaches (K–12), the book shows how they both shape and are shaped by everyday literacy practices in classrooms.Readers will find detailed vignettes of classroom practice explored from various theoretical standpoints, illuminating how theory is brought to life in the classroom. Substantial attention is devoted to multilingual classrooms and communities, engaging with current sociopolitical issues in literacy curricula, and literacy teaching in the post-digital age. Chapters contain key questions for further exploration and user-friendly inset discussions that explore complex terminology and connect literacy theory to current debates and world events.New for the Second Edition!Examination of theories and practices related to the Science of Reading movement.Addition of the Active View of Reading and Positioning Theory.New and revised vignettes focused on translanguaging practices and student and teacher uses of generative AI in literacy teaching and learning across the disciplines.New and revised inset discussions highlighting recent insights from neuroscience, knowledge-building, and intersections between literacy instruction and social–emotional learning.

Learn how to harness artificial intelligence to create inclusive learning environments where multilingual learners thrive (K–12).This book invites educators to reimagine literacy instruction at the intersection of language, culture, and technology. Through vivid classroom stories, practical frameworks, and adaptable lesson designs, the authors demonstrate how AI can serve as a thinking partner to help students translate, analyze, and express ideas across languages and modes. Rather than viewing multilingualism as a challenge, this book positions it as brilliance—a source of creativity, insight, and connection. From multimodal micropaths and strategic text sets to AI-powered feedback and assessment, readers will find tools that honor students’ full linguistic and cultural repertoires while deepening critical and creative thinking. AI-Supported Teaching for Multilingual Learners offers a hopeful vision for how teachers can combine human artistry and technological innovation to make literacy instruction more inclusive, dynamic, and human.Book Features: Brings together insights from multiliteracies pedagogy and emerging research on AI in education, offering practice-based models for how these fields can inform each other in meaningful, student-centered ways.Positions multilingual students as designers of meaning and knowledge, highlighting their full linguistic and cultural repertoires as assets in every classroom.Shows how AI can serve as a creative and critical partner that supports translation, feedback, and design, yet keeps human relationships and judgment at the center of teaching and learning.

Learn how to harness artificial intelligence to create inclusive learning environments where multilingual learners thrive (K–12).This book invites educators to reimagine literacy instruction at the intersection of language, culture, and technology. Through vivid classroom stories, practical frameworks, and adaptable lesson designs, the authors demonstrate how AI can serve as a thinking partner to help students translate, analyze, and express ideas across languages and modes. Rather than viewing multilingualism as a challenge, this book positions it as brilliance—a source of creativity, insight, and connection. From multimodal micropaths and strategic text sets to AI-powered feedback and assessment, readers will find tools that honor students’ full linguistic and cultural repertoires while deepening critical and creative thinking. AI-Supported Teaching for Multilingual Learners offers a hopeful vision for how teachers can combine human artistry and technological innovation to make literacy instruction more inclusive, dynamic, and human.Book Features: Brings together insights from multiliteracies pedagogy and emerging research on AI in education, offering practice-based models for how these fields can inform each other in meaningful, student-centered ways.Positions multilingual students as designers of meaning and knowledge, highlighting their full linguistic and cultural repertoires as assets in every classroom.Shows how AI can serve as a creative and critical partner that supports translation, feedback, and design, yet keeps human relationships and judgment at the center of teaching and learning.

Methods for Community-Based Research describes how Community-Based Research (CBR) is particularly suited to understand and take action on issues of educational justice.The book shifts assumptions about who is considered a researcher, drawing attention to issues of power and the ethics of collaborations, and foregrounding how those who have often been positioned as the objects of educational interventions can—and have the rights to—play an active role in creating educational arrangements more conducive to their own flourishing.The authors draw on a decade-long partnership across the boundaries of race, language, immigration status, and institutional affiliation to provide examples that illustrate the complexities and possibilities of this work. They distill principles, practices, and ongoing inquiries for researchers to consider across all aspects of the research process.The book supports researchers in creating the conditions for collaborative inquiry into issues of educational (in)justice that are salient to community partners. It will be of interest to advanced undergraduate, graduate students and scholars in education, and other disciplines that utilize a CBR method such as healthcare research and anthropology, as well as scholars interested in qualitative methods and issues of social justice in research.