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The ABC's Model: Teachers Connect Home and School

Examines how seven European-American teachers implemented a model called the ABC's of Cultural Understanding and Communication (a literacy process to help develop cultural understanding and communication). Describes how teachers and students investigated cultural and ethnic differences through literacy activities that promoted classroom community and home/school connections, an appreciation of diversity, and reading, writing, listening, and speaking across the curriculum. (SR)

• Author/Creator: Schmidt, Patricia Ruggiano
• Journal/Secondary Title: National Reading Conference Yearbook
• Volume: 47
• Year: 1998

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Diversity Practices
• Subject: Cultural Awareness
• Subject: Cultural Pluralism
• Subject: Elementary Secondary Education
• Subject: Family School Relationship
• Subject: Literacy
• Subject: Multicultural Education

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