Chapter 2

Chapter 2 is reminding us that as teachers, we cannot have any kind of prejudice, biased or racial views of students because the classrooms will be full of diverse cultures. Children of all races and cultures will grace your classroom and we must accomodate them accordingly. This chapter has excellent ideas on how to design your classroom to make all children feel welcome. I think having different objects around your classroom labeled in the language of all your students is an excellent practice (pg. 27). Figure 2.1 on pg. 26 is also offering several good ideas on helping ELL students. I like this chapter; it offers many good, helpful tips that would make any classroom culturally ready. Here are some pretty cool websites I have come across in researching an author. Children’s literature author profile: http://www.carolhurst.com/authors/authors.html--awesome website for reading aloud book titles for the first day of school; excellent way to let your students know you enjoy reading and much reading will be done in class. Provides titles of books for each grade level pk-12th . http://www.carolhurst.com/profsubjects/reading/readingaloud.html http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/humanities/literature/authors/children_s/ --site directing to you to author’s wesites http://www.patriciapolacco.com/author/bio/bio.html --http://www.patriciapolacco.com/books/in_house/index.html In our mothers’ house—book about same sex couples living together with children as a family http://www.patriciapolacco.com/books/petunia/index.html --comedy http://www.popupbooks.com/ neat, contemporary pop up books bugs and other subjects