NEA Today
May 28th, 2015
By Anita Merina
Audience: librarians, educators, school board, students, parents, authors, publishers
Key Points: Students need to be offered books in classrooms that resemble their lives. This diverse selection of books should include (but not limited to): race, gender diversity, sexual identity, people with disabilities, and ethnic, cultural and religious minorities. Offering this type of selection empowers a wide range of readers and stirs up their interest toward reading.
Relevance: Shows how to get students from many diverse lives interested in reading. Students already come to class with their own understanding of the world around them. If the world they read in books is nothing like the world they live in there is no connection to the story. Diverse books not only reflect the lives and experiences of the students but teaches them about those of their peers as well.
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