Girls, Social Class, and Literacy is a compelling and provocative look at the debilitating effects of classism on young girls, as well as a pragmatic and powerful examination of the transformative effects of sensitive, smart teaching on children whose lives and education are too often a reflection of their economic status. Stephanie Jones shares the insights of a five-year study that followed eight working-poor girls, offering you unusually sharp insight into what it's like to be underprivileged in America. With critical literacy as her tool, Jones then helps you peel back your ideas of the poorand of your own studentsto see them, and your role in their lives, more clearly. Just as important, using reading and writing workshop as an instructional framework, she describes how to validate and honor all students' realities while cultivating crucial critical literacy skills. You'll find out why giving children the option to find and talk openly about disconnections with children's literature (as well as connections) and to write on topics of their choosing (even difficult ones) can have a large, positive impact on students as they speak and write about their reality without shame or fear of judgment.
As the gap between rich and poor widens in America, more and more children from working-poor families enter schools. You can make a difference in their lives by rethinking how you look at social class and extending to all children the same opportunities to share their experiences through reading, speaking, and writing. Read Girls, Social Class, and Literacy and ensure that in your classroom the education every student receives is not proportionate to their financial worth, but rather to their human worth.
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"Be prepared to have your heart examined, perhaps bruised, and ultimately strengthened for the social action that is the reason Stephanie teaches and writes - and the reason every educator must read this book."
- Jo Beth Allen, University of Georgia
"A must-read for teacher study groups preparing to tackle the impact of poverty on elementary education."
-Barbara Comber, University of South Australia
A former elementary school teacher and staff developer, Stephanie Jones is Assistant Professor of Literacy at Teachers College, Columbia University. She consults with schools in New York City and the Midwest on reading and writing instruction, critical literacy, and home-school connections. Her work has been published in Language Arts, Feminist Teacher, and Ohio Journal of English Language Arts. Stephanie lives in New York City with her husband, Casey, and their four-year-old daughter, Hayden.
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