I found this article on transnational and community literacies very interesting. Prior to reading the article, I did not have a lot of knowledge on how to implement transnational and community literacies into the everyday literacy instruction. I particularly enjoyed how the article gave examples of how you could relate these practices to the state standards. I believe that it is very important to be able to link our teaching instruction to the state standards because our educational system focuses greatly on these.
One part of the article that kind of upset me was when the authors were talking about reasons that teachers may not want to implement transnational and community was due to the fact that they may not feel comfortable going into the community to gather materials. That statement really struck a cord with me because I feel like in a situation like that, the teacher is completely disregarding how the student feels when they enter an ELL classroom for the first time.
Overall, I really enjoyed this article.
I really agree with you about the part of the article with the teachers feeling uncomfortable. I think that no one has any idea how these kids are feeling in a place where his or peers may not even speak the same language. I think that this is so important for teachers to get over and think from their students' perspectives!
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