Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : bienvenidos / Berta Rosa Berriz, Amanda Claudia Wager and Vivian Maria Poey -- Echoing the importance of heritage languages as a valuable asset for multilingual children in US schools and beyond : we can't afford to lose them / Shabaash Kemeh -- Preparing ideologically clear bilingual teachers to recognize "linguistic geniuses" / Cristina Alfaro and Lilia Bartolomé -- Inclusive teaching for bilingual and multilingual learners : collage as ornithology / Mariana Souto-Manning and Jessica Martell -- Family art backpacks : building family-school connections through art and story / Dorea Kleker and Mika Phinney -- Seen from within / Mary Beth Meehan and Julie Nora -- Meeting the needs of and giving voice to linguistically diverse children through multimodal and arts-based assessments / Whitney J. Lawrence and Janelle Mathis -- Picturebook illustrations : powerful pathways for literacy learning and language acquisition / Katherine Cunningham and Grace Enriquez -- Constructing stories using language and digital art : voices of multilingual learners / Sally Brown -- "Qué caja? What box? : inclusivity, assessment and the political possibilities of preschool drama / Elizabeth Murray and Gustave Weltsek -- Telling stories of challenge and triumph : emergent bilinguals claim the curriculum through spoken-word poetry, hip hop and video / Debi Khasnabis, Catherine H. Reischl, Coert Ambrosino, Jamall Bufford, and Alysha Schlundt-Bodien -- Storier warriors : new waves of indigenous survivance and language revitalization / Laura Cranmer, Jocelyn Difiore, and Jeffrey Paul Ansloos -- Youth voices from in and out of the classroom : emergent bilingual learners, graphic novels, and critical multiliteracies / Jie Park and Lori Simpson.

This book features effective artistic practices to improve literacy and language skills for emergent bilinguals in PreK-12 schools. Including insights from key voices from the field, this book highlights how artistic practices can increase proficiency in emergent language learners and students with limited access to academic English. Challenging current prescriptions for teaching English to language learners, the arts-integrated framework in this book is grounded in a sense of student and teacher agency and offers key pedagogical tools to build upon students' sociocultural knowledge and improve language competence and confidence. Offering rich and diverse examples of using the arts as a way of talking, this volume invites teacher educators, teachers, artists, and researchers to reconsider how to fully engage students in their own learning and best use the resources within their own multilingual educational settings and communities.

College of Education Bachelor of Secondary Education major in English

In English