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Anna Jennerjohn – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2024
Lack of representation of children from nondominant cultural and linguistic backgrounds continues to be problematic in children's literature, and especially within early literacy texts for beginning readers. One remedy is for children to tell their own stories through the language experience approach, which can then be printed into culturally…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Suburban Schools, Culturally Relevant Education
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Dernikos, Bessie P. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2020
Within this article, I attend to the slippages among sound, silence, noise, voice and ir/rationality to map out the ways in which white supremacist forces subtly moved with/in a primary classroom (NYC), through a host of bodies and sounds, to reinforce processes of affective assimilation -- or demands for first graders to 'feel white'.…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Racial Bias, Whites
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Ranker, Jason – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2009
In this article, I explore the role of semiotic import (Van Leeuwen, 2005) in the composing processes of three bilingual students (six to seven years old) emerging as writers of English. Using social semiotic (Van Leeuwen, 2005) and design (New London Group, 2000) frameworks, I trace a qualitative "micro-history" of how the students imported…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Writing Processes, Bilingual Students, Comparative Analysis