Written by educators from diverse experiences, Text Sets: Multimodal Learning for Multicultural Students provides ready-to-use multicultural text sets complete with annotations, instructional activities, and multimedia tools, as well as a framework for building and using new sets.

Preface xi Introduction xiii Lisa Ciecierski Part 1: Literacy and Language Arts 1. Using Literature to Teach Inference in the English/Language Arts Classroom 3 William P. Bintz 2. Understanding Those Who Are Different: A Text Set for Middle School Language Arts Curriculum 13 Bethany Scullin 3. ‘Good Hair’: Exploring Race within Multicultural Preschool Curriculum 25 Brianna Foraker 4. Recognizing African Influences in Children’s Literature 33 Taylor Hair and Rachael Fleischaker Part 2: Mathematics 5. Using Texts to See the Universality of Mathematics 45 Julie Nurnberger-Haag, Anita Alexander and Janis S. Mcteer 6. Using Literature as a Lens into the Standards for Mathematical Practice 59 Courtney Nagle 7. Counting Our Way through Kindergarten Using Text Sets 73 Molly Young Part 3: Science and the Nature World 8. A Text Set Guided Tour of Biological Evolution 85 Lisa Borgerding 9. Science as a Human Enterprise: The Power of Varied Backgrounds and Perspectives: A Text Set for Elementary and Middle School Science 99 Bridget K. Mulvey 10. Using Text Sets to Teach STEM in the K-5 Classroom 107 William P. Bintz, Sara D. Moore and Mila Rosa Librea-Carden 11. To Infinity and Beyond with Texts: A Text Set for High School Astronomy 117 Alexandria Twichell Part 4: Historical Perspectives 12. Using Biographical Multicultural and International Literature across Content Areas 129 Gumiko Monobe and Sharyn Turner 13. Trinidad Is a Paradise 149 Joanne Kilgour Dowdy 14. Understanding Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Test Set for High School American History 161 Joe Lendak 15. Beyond Names and Dates in World War II: A Text Set for High School History 167 Matthew Porter Part 5: Exploring Cultural Connections 16. Día de Muertos – Day of the Dead: A Multicultural Tradition 177 Mariana Romero-Gonzalez 17. Everyone Has a Story: What Is Yours? 185 Shen Wen Tan 18. What Are You? A Text Set about Biracial Identity 193 Shana M. Lee 19. The Way of My People: Addressing Students’ Heritage through Blackfoot Culture 201 Lorianna Clarke-Alexander Part 6: Communication through Language and Culture 20. Experiential Exercises in Lingo-Cultural Diversity 213 Irina Anokhin 21. Communication between the Deaf, the Culturally Deaf, Their Families, and the Hearing 221 Laura Beth Benner 22. Finding Peace through War 229 Fitim Krasniqi Part 7: Musical Journeys 23. Jazzin’ It up in the Elementary Music Classroom with Text Sets 239 Rachael Fleischaker 24. The Blues: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Using Text Sets 251 Karl Martin Part 8: Visual Art and What It Represents 25. Colors and Emotions 263 Kaitlyn Culp 26. Aesthetics: It’s Not Always Black and White 269 Katheryn Werner 27. Women Artists and Women in Art 277 Sue Kelewae About the Contributors 287 Index 293