Literacy for All Students: An Instructional Framework for Closing the Gap

by RebeccaPowell (Editor), ElizabethRightmyer (Editor)

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  2011

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  The Culturally Responsive Instruction Observation Protocol (CRIOP) is a framework for implementing culturally relevant literacy instruction and classroom observation. Drawing on research and theory reflecting a range of perspectives multicultural instruction, literacy theory, equity pedagogy, language and discourse models, sheltered instruction, critical pedagogy it provides a means for assessing the many variables of classroom literacy instruction and for guiding practitioners in their development as multicultural educators.

  Literacy for All Students

  • Discusses issues in multicultural literacy instruction within the context of various essential instructional components (such as assessment, curriculum, parent collaboration)
  • Provides a protocol for observing features of literacy instruction for culturally and linguistically diverse students
  • Presents vignettes from real classrooms, written by elementary and middle school teachers, showing their victories and struggles as they attempt to implement a pedagogy that is culturally responsive within a climate of high stakes testing

  A highly effective instrument for assessing culturally responsive literacy instruction in schools, the CRIOP serves as a model for realizing a literacy that is both relevant and transformative.