Going Global with Literature

This vignette shares the efforts taken to provide global literature to Forest Hills Global Elementary, which serves students from supportive families, students from traumatic backgrounds, English Language Learners, Deaf and Hard of Hearing students, and students with academic and behavioral challeng...

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Main Author: Andi Webb
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Worlds of Words: Center of Global Literacies and Literatures 2022-01-01
Series:WOW Stories
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Online Access:https://wowlit.org/on-line-publications/stories/volume-x-issue-1/8/
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Summary:This vignette shares the efforts taken to provide global literature to Forest Hills Global Elementary, which serves students from supportive families, students from traumatic backgrounds, English Language Learners, Deaf and Hard of Hearing students, and students with academic and behavioral challenges. By providing books in other languages and about other cultures, students and teachers became more engaged with literature that reflected themselves and the people around them.
ISSN:2577-0551