This book supports teachers to affirm student identities through inclusive pedagogy, offering practical strategies and examples for engaging middle years students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds.

By Janet Dutton, Jacqueline D’warte, Joanne Rossbridge and Kathy Rushton

Tell Me Your Story: Confirming Identity and engaging writers in the middle years provides a valuable resource for teachers who want to negotiate and confirm the identities which their students bring to learning in middle-years classrooms. In education, it is seen as increasingly important for teachers to understand and acknowledge the language and literacy practices of student communities and home backgrounds, especially the languages and registers that students speak both inside and outside the school.

This book provides practical examples of how teachers in the middle years of schooling can build on their existing programs by incorporating inclusive strategies and perspectives that will support all students to engage with subject English and develop language and literacy.

Every chapter offers rich EAL/D strategies and classroom exemplars, providing a range of suggestions for working with students in the middle years and many examples of how different approaches can be implemented in classrooms.

Oral language, reading and writing with culturally and linguistically diverse students are all explored in details, using the latest research and work in schools to inform the pedagogical approaches outlined.

Intended Audience

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