Teaching Writing for Academic Purposes to Multilingual Students

Pushing past the typical genre and elements approach, this text explains how to integrate children¿s literature into and across the curriculum in effective, purposeful ways. The materials and practical strategies focus on issues that impact children¿s lives, building from students` personal experiences and cultural knowledge to using language to question the everyday world, analyze popular culture and media, understand how power relationships are socially constructed, and consider actions to take that promote social justice.