The Great Big Book of Families is a colorful book that describes different families across the world. Texts that portray different family structures, young children that live in different places, and families that have different norms are affirming for students, especially those whose lives are not typically reflected during learning experiences.įor example, Dear Primo is a popular children’s book about two cousins, one in Mexico and the other in the U.S., who write to each other about their daily lives. Share various perspectives: It’s important to share books from diverse perspectives.
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Bena Hefflin developed guidelines for selecting quality multicultural children’s literature, and Eliza Braden and Sanjuana Rodriguez provide questions for teachers to examine texts with Latino families and stories of immigration that reflect real experiences. There are many websites that list books that represent a diverse society, such as What Do We Do All Day?, Lee and Low Books, and Cooperative Children’s Book Center.īe mindful: Many texts represent diverse people and contexts, but have negative or deficit stereotypes. Do they mirror your students’ lives? Do they reflect a diverse society?īeing intentional about text selection is key to honoring the lives and experiences of students. The goals are to validate students’ identities through providing mirrors, to develop their understanding through providing windows, and to show them how they can be changed by literature through providing sliding glass doors.Įxamine texts: Consider the texts in your classroom library and the books you use as mentor texts for teaching English language arts standards or content area topics. When bringing the concept of literature as windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors into the classroom, it’s imperative that you truly value the lives and experiences of all students.
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He smiled back.” Through such sliding glass door experiences, changes can happen in the minds and hearts of students, teachers, and thus the world. I looked the man right in the eye and smiled. I looked away and then I thought of Auggie.
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Ideas of representation and cultural awareness are central to the concept of windows and mirrors, but critical reflection and thoughtful action are central to the idea of literature as a sliding glass door, a concept similar to windows in that both present different experiences, but sliding glass doors also can represent a change in perspective about the possibilities in the real world that a particular text helps the reader to consider.įor example, Nancy Johnson, Melanie Koss, and Miriam Martinez discuss a student who read Wonder, a young adult novel about a boy with unsettling facial abnormalities, and wrote in his journal, “Yesterday when I was at the grocery store with my mom I saw a man with no arm.