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To build sociocultural competence in students is to build an awareness in them that although not all cultures are the same they all hold equal importance. This can be done in all settings and with all students. The most common way to build sociocultural competence is through haveing multicultual books in the classroom.
"Translanguaging pedagogy serves three primary instructional purposes: content development, linguistic development and sociocultural intergration" Axelrod & Cole, 2018, p.133).
Multicultural Books in my Classroom
Most of my students are Brazilian however I also have students from El Salvador and the Dominican. I also have students whose families are Hatian, Indian, and Pakastani. I want my students to feel represetned by the books in my classroom but also see that their are cultures other than theirs. I would like to get some more books that are bilingual in Portuguese along with books that represent my Indian students. I think that having these books and providing read aloud with them is important for developing my students sociocultural competence as multicultural students themselves.
Culture unit for Fifth Grade
for the pull out ELL classroom based off of classroom curriculum
for 2024-2025 there will be one bilingual English and Portuguese speaker who is not literate in Portuguese, one Portuguese speaker with low English proficiency who is literate in Portuguese, and one Spanish speaker with increasing English proficiency who is literate in Spanish.
For the second part of the culture unit students are given the task of comparing and contrasting two cultures.
Content Objective: SWBAT Compare and contrast two cultural groups.
Language: SWBAT create a Venn Diagram and conclude what two cultural groups have in common and what differences make them unique.
Students have the choice between using the culture they are learning about in class (The Nez Perce), their own culture, a culture of a classmate, or any other culture that they want.
ASSESSMENT
Students will be given a variety of choices on how to compare and contrast their cultures. After completing a compare and contrast organizer students can then present their final product through a book, powerpoint, poster, or essay in a bilingual or translanguaging format.
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