Rooted in Strength - Softcover

Ascenzi-Moreno, Laura; Espinosa, Cecilia M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1338753878 ISBN 13: 9781338753875

Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2021

Synopsis

Espinosa and Ascenzi-Moreno demonstrate how our emergent bilingual students who speak two or more languages in their daily lives― thrive when they are able to use “translanguaging” to tap the power of their entire linguistic and sociocultural repertoires.

Additionally, the authors present rich and thoughtful literacy practices that propel emergent bilinguals into reading and writing success. The core of this approach is honoring and leveraging the language and cultural resources emergent bilinguals bring to school― and rooting instruction in their strengths. Knowing more than one language is, indeed, a gift to the classroom! Includes a foreword by Ofelia Garcia.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Rooted in Strength is the book many of us have been waiting to read. Espinosa and Ascenzi-Moreno demonstrate the importance of using childrens' multilingualism as a strength in reading and writing instruction. This is a must-read for all educators who work with emergent bilinguals. Whether you are multilingual or not, you are sure to get ideas on how to support your students.

- Dr. Sandra Lucia Osorio, Associate Professor, Illinois State UniversityIn this book, children are at the center of literacy instruction - their langauge and history, and their interests and current lived experience. Using a frame of translanguaging theory and practice, the authors highlight the strengths and creativity of emergent bilingual students and demonstrate how to engage them in meaningful reading and writing, within a multilingual, multimodal community.

- Dr. Danling Fu, Professor, University of Florida, author of Writing Between Languages and Translanguaging for Emergent Bilinguals

With the mindset of strength-based learning, teachers can use the practical tools in this book to regain the joy and love of teaching and learning for all students. This is the evolutionary work that is needed to foster the next generation of multilingual readers and writers.

- Dr. Maria Armstrong, Executive Director, Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS)

Rooted in Strength beautifully weaves the understanding of bilingual children's complex, dynamic language practices into literacy instructin. It is a must-read for teachers who are starting their journey, as well as those in curriculum, leadership, and teacher-education roles.

- Dr. Carla Espana and Dr. Luz Yadira Herrera, authors of En Comunidad: Lessons for Centering the Voices and Experiences of Bilingual Latinx Students.

From the Inside Flap

To describe translangauging and literacy in ways that are rooted in the strengths of emergent bilingual children requires sophisticated understandings of theory. It requires theory to be not only understood in the head, but also felt in the gut and performed in the body. Espinosa and Ascenzi-Moreno engage the readers not just in thinking about translanguaging and literacy, but envisioning it in the classroom, feeling what it provides, and performing it with their actions.

- Dr. Ofelia Garcia, Professor Emerita in the Ph.D. programs in Urban Education and Latino Cultures of the City University of New York

This is the book my students have been waiting for. Espinosa and Ascenzi-Moreno make sense of translanguaging and bilingual and monolingual teachers in the elementary literacy classroom. I look forward to bringing this book into my university classroom for preservice and inservice teachers.

- Dr. Deborah Palmer, Professor of Equity, Bilingualism, and Biliteracy, University of Colorado, Boulder

Like its title suggests, this book is rooted in strength. It is rooted in what we know about effective literacy instruction and emergent bilingualism. And, out of that strength, the authors show us how to cultivate a linguistic landscape where translanguaging is valued and where our learners flourish.

- Dr. Tasha Tropp Laman, Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education, Western Washington University

While reading Rooted in Strength, I kept doing two things: arguing with the authors and agreeing with them. My argument is that the title is too narrow - this book is not only for teachers of multilingual students; it's for every teacher dedicated to helping students learn to think about texts. And my agreement is with every chapter, in which the authors remind us about the power of a language-centered classroom, especially the classroom that celebrates multiple languages.

-Dr. Kylene Beers

As our population of emergent bilinguals grows, we need resources that provide a foundation for understanding them in a manner that is respectful and informative. Espinosa and Ascenzi-Moreno provide solid research-based foundation in an accessible format that speaks to the linguistic richness of our emergent bilinguals.

- Dr. Julia Lopez-Robertson, Professor of Language and Literacy, University of South Carolina

Edition details

• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1338753878
• ISBN 13: 9781338753875
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224