RISING VOICES: CELEBRATING GIRLS OF COLOR EXTENSION COLLECTION
This collection is intended to expand the reach of your Rising Voices: Empowering Girls in STEAM collection with more books that feature girls of color building confidence and displaying a variety of skills. Although the focus of this library is specific, it is a tool to support all learners. All young readers need to have access to affirming stories that mirror their own lives, as well as stories that are windows into the lives of others. When children read a book that serves as a mirror, they see aspects of their own experiences and cultures reflected in the text. When children read a book that serves as a window, they gain insights into the world beyond their own personal experiences. This library allows readers to look in and look out, making text-to-self and text-to-world connections. The Rising Voices: Celebrating Girls of Color Extension Collection provides students with high-interest, culturally relevant texts that celebrate the stories of people historically underrepresented in children’s literature. These books, paired with innovative teaching materials that support literacy skill development and the CASEL Framework for social-emotional learning, build a classroom community that broadens the world for students from all backgrounds and enables deep discussions about identity, inclusivity, and empathy for others. The books in this extension collection and related teaching supports explore two themes: Someone Like Me/Memorable Characters and Heroes and Role Models. These themes provide a lens for reading that guides readers to consider concepts and ideas that affirm, celebrate, and foster pride and confidence in their identities. In addition, you and your students can use these themes to make connections between Rising Voices books and other texts you have been reading in your classroom.
AVAILABLE FOR GRADES K–5, each grade-level library includes 20 books: two copies of each theme’s anchor text, plus two copies each of the four additional titles for each theme.
Scholastic Rising Voices: Celebrating Girls of Color Extension Collection: Grade 4 Books | Back to Top | 2 *Denotes an author or illustrator of color. † Comparable substitutes will be provided for titles no longer available.
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