Diversity in Literacy
Section I: Growing up, I don't remember there being much diversity in the classrooms. For example, books did not talk about cultures or different ethnicities. I remember books being fun and more so like storybook types of books. The books that included people of different races where only about monumental people in history like Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. People of color were not included in the storybooks we had. Now being back in an elementary school classroom, I have been able to observe how much classrooms have evolved. While observing a second grade classroom, the teacher had a reading corner in her room. The books were organized by genre but her books were inclusive. She had books that had characters with different ethnicities and books with characters that were of color. She also had books to represent each of her students so that they all felt represented, respected and included. One other thing she did was each week she displayed different books that focused on diffe...
