Your Rising Voices Library was curated in conjunction with David C. Banks to help fill this gap. This collection provides empowering and engaging fiction and informational texts that highlight the most underrepresented literary protagonists: black and Latino boys (Elizabeth Bird, 2017). While the focus of this library is specific, it is a tool to support all learners. By fostering a classroom community that supports more positive representation and equity, children of all backgrounds will benefit as they build empathy, respect, and understanding. Rising Voices. . . • provides 50 books per grade (25 titles, two copies of each) selected by librarians and educators after reviewing more than 800 texts—to ensure that each grade-level collection validates the multifaceted identities of black and Latino boys. • celebrates the talents of many African American and Latin authors and illustrators — because understanding that the perspectives that authors and illustrators bring to the texts they create are also important windows and mirrors. • includes informational texts, biographies of accomplished people who have contributed to society in a variety of ways, poetry, contemporary realistic fiction, historical fiction, humor, fantasy, and science fiction so that children see black and Latino protagonists as the stars in all kinds of texts. • is organized around five essential literary themes (see pages 10–11) that children and teachers can use to make cross-text and cross-cultural connections within and beyond this library.
• uses five anchor texts per grade, each supported by a robust Teaching Card , to highlight each of the five themes, prompt comprehension, and scaffold higher-level thinking skills and deep discussion, as well as social and emotional learning. • offers Rising Voices stickers and bins that can be used to identify each book as part of this special collection.
• supplies resources for culturally relevant and responsive teaching.
Teacher’s Guide • 7
Teacher’s Guide Sampler 3
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