ELA Practice #10

This resource from Dr.  Zwiers provides strategies to move students from simply choosing answers to posing questions, exploring different points of view, and building meanings with others. Here is a visual showing what students do as they co-construct ideas.

This NCTE Position Statement outlines and expands eight basic beliefs "supporting learners whose cultures and language fall outside the boundaries of mainstream power codes." This resource includes activities, assignments, research questions, and relevant references.

A crucial resource for educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students in language and literacy education, writing studies, sociology of education, sociolinguistics, and critical pedagogy, this book features a range of multimodal examples and practices through instructional maps, charts, artwork, and stories that reflect the urgent need for antiracist language pedagogies in our current social and political climate.

This 33-minute video focuses on a Penn State introductory sociology classroom conversation on code-switching, featuring students and the instructor discussing how and why people adapt their language, tone, and vocabulary depending on context, audience, and cultural expectations.

The purpose of this white paper is to define current local and national instructional issues regarding word study, by sharing local survey results and summarizing key fndings from the current evidence-based research. The paper also outlines in broad strokes the essential practices that move the needle on word study instruction, including practices named by the Essential Practices documents

This short article from ThoughtCo provides a general definition and description of the term "metadiscourse."