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Integrating Multicultural Literature And The Arts Across The Curriculum, Phyllis Mae Davis Dragun
Integrating Multicultural Literature And The Arts Across The Curriculum, Phyllis Mae Davis Dragun
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With the current emphasis on improving reading and comprehension in the school system, many teachers find it difficult to meet this challenge to providing increased reading time for students and still maintain the required classroom instruction in other areas of curriculum. Additionally, present teacher education classes stress the importance of recognizing the diversity in our classroom, school, community, and the world. The use of multicultural literature to create lessons across the curriculum is a good way to address literacy and diversity concerns. While we do live in a diverse world, I feel that one group of cultures that has been …