Presented by Dr. Brandy Gatlin-Nash, Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine; and Maya Goodall, Chief Marketing Officer, CORE Learning
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Everyone in the United States speaks a dialect—not a different language, but a variation of American English. Yet when children come to school, the expectation is that they will automatically understand that they need to read, write, and speak in the academic English of the classroom.
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How can educators draw on research into dialect variation and weave it into a reader’s or writer’s workshop? In this webinar, hear about sound strategies and creative lessons designed by a linguist with classroom experience that proved to be highly effective.