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Book Report Assignment
Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching
and Learning
The book “Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning” helped me as a first-year teacher see different classroom practices that will lead not only me to be a successful teacher but my ELL students to be successful in their studies. The author, Sharroky Hollie, does a great job engaging the reader using acronyms like VABB to help the reader remember the keys to responsive teaching. The book was a long read but if used correctly the Anticipation Guides really help the reader focus on what they learned as well as what they thought they knew. I know for me it opened my
eyes to a lot of falsehoods I believed to be true. In Chapter 1 the author gives the meaning of the acronym VABB and it’s a great strategy that is easy to implement and will make a huge impact. Validation, Affirmation, Building and Bridging make up VABB (pg27-29) and in my opinion the hardest part is the building and bridging part of VABB. I think naturally I VABB very well and didn’t even know I was doing it. One thing I did find that I was mistaken on was the rings of culture naturally I believed race appeared on that and it mattered but in fact it does not. Race and ethnicity are completely different things and we sometimes like to make them synonymous. In summary Chapter 1 did a great job introducing CLR, defining it and helping me understand VABBing. I realize now who the “underserved” children are and how VABBing can help me serve them appropriately. In Chapter 2 the author explains how pedagogy plays a role in CLR. The most interesting message I found in this chapter is that if you use many activities with frequency, fidelity and technical precision and know when to use the particular activity and for what purpose that equals CLR (pg 69). One of the hardest things I have had to understand as a first-year teacher is movement is necessary, students moving around in the room keeps them focused and engaged. In my class we play this game called Quiz Quiz trade before every story we read and it basically is a vocabulary game where kids hold up a card and go around the room getting one another to guess the meaning with hints. It’s fun and it works, at the end I Quiz the students and they always know the word meanings. The cards have graphics showing the meaning in picture so it helps ELL students relate a word to graphic as well. I
was hesitant the first time I played this as having 30 students roam around class I was pessimistic on their ability to stay focused but they loved it and still do. Furthermore, this chapter proved pedagogy play a big role in CLR.
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