Identity-Based Literacy Instruction for Early Childhood and Elementary Classrooms: Learning to Be Readers...

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Christopher J. Wagner (Queens College, City University of New York, USA.)

Identity-Based Literacy Instruction for Early Childhood and Elementary Classrooms

Learning to Be Readers and Writers

Christopher J. Wagner (Queens College, City University of New York, USA.)

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Routledge
23 May 2025

Multicultural education; Curriculum planning & development; Pre-school & kindergarten; Primary & middle schools; Teaching skills & techniques

An essential text in literacy and teaching methods, this book introduces the concept of identity in literacy learning and provides guidance toward designing identity-based literacy instruction in early childhood and elementary classrooms. An identity approach to literacy learning asks teachers to see and engage with the ways that children make and remake ideas about who they are as readers and writers as they learn about language and literacy.

This book explores what literacy teaching can look like when literacy is reframed as an identity practice, and it prepares readers to design literacy instruction using an identity-based instruction framework that focuses on four strands of teaching and learning: community, skills, membership, and reflection and narrative-making. Each chapter draws on examples of units and lessons developed by teachers using the four strands of the identity-based instruction framework, including instructional activities and resources.

This is a foundational book for pre-service and in-service teachers to learn and develop the necessary tools to implement literacy instruction that recognizes and responds to the many possibilities of who children are becoming as readers and writers.

By: Christopher J. Wagner (Queens College City University of New York USA.)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032713717
ISBN 10: 1032713712
Pages: 146
Publication Date: 23 May 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

1. Introduction: Literacy Learning as Becoming 2. Looking to Identity to Guide Literacy Instruction 3. Strand 1: Community 4. Strand 2: Skills 5. Strand 3: Membership 6. Strand 4: Reflection and Narrative-Making 7. Designing Identity-Based Literacy Instruction 8. Conclusion: Classrooms as Spaces of Possibility Appendix A: Identity-Based Literacy Instruction Unit Plan Template Appendix B: Identity-Based Literacy Instruction Lesson Plan Template

Christopher J. Wagner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education at Queens College, City University of New York, USA.