This page contains an annotated list of relevant readings to support teachers who may use H.E.L.P. resources in their classrooms.

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• Understanding Culture
  This reading explores issues around culture and teaching. It highlights ways classrooms are enriched by the assets that children and their families bring with them from their homes and communities.
• Cultural Proficiency
  This site provides information for educators to help identify their own cultural proficiency as well as the cultural proficiency of the institutions in which they work.
• Developing Cross-Cultural Competence: A Guide for Working with Young Children and their Families
  This handbook illustrates the ways to assess one's culture as well as discusses how culture affects individuals' thoughts and behaviors.
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
  This personal account breaks down the various "privileges" the author identifies as afforded to certain people in society, regardless of merit.
• To Meet your Students where they are, first you have to find them: Working with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse At-Risk Students
  This article explores different approaches to working with at-risk ESL students including the need to create culturally sensitive classrooms.
• The Fourth R: Responsibility
  This reading focuses on engaging education stakeholders in substantive dialogue about the integral relevance of equity, multicultural education, and the concept of equal access.
• Key Components of Educational Equity
  This on-line resource lists the six components of educational equity as well as strategies for teachers and schools to employ to insure student accessibility.
• Steps Toward Multicultural Curriculum Transformation
  This guide identifies the various steps of curricular reform that lead toward multicultural awareness and social action.

• Why Children Succeed or Fail at Reading
  This resource outlines various causes of reading impairments in children and provides treatments for overcoming these disabilities.
• The Fifteen Key Elements of Effective Adolescent Literacy Programs
  This on-line report consolidates research and professional opinion to identify the elements in comprehensive literacy programs for adolescents.
• Listening to Inner City Teachers of English Language Learners: Differentiating Literacy Instruction
  This article provides guidelines to best serve the literacy and instructional needs of poor, inner-city, second language learners.
• Teaching Readers who Struggle: A Pragmatic Middle School Framework
  This on-line guide offers suggestions to develop a framework for reading instruction that helps meet the needs of struggling learners ages 11 to 14.
• Contexts for Engagement and Motivation in Reading
  This article explores various methods teachers can create classroom contexts that foster student engagement and motivation in reading.

• Tiered Instruction: Beginning the Process
  This resource provides a practical framework and relevant examples of tiered assignments for educators who wish to incorporate this method of differentiation into their classrooms.
• Instructional Strategies that Support Differentiation
  This site offers a teacher-friendly list of instructional strategies and techniques to differentiate instruction in a mixed-ability class to meet all students' needs.
• Flexible Grouping
  This article defines flexible grouping and provides multiple options and activities to assist teachers who plan to incorporate flexible grouping into their classrooms.
• Multiple Intelligences: A Theory for Everyone
  This resource explains Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences and offers practical ways for teachers to implement this theory into lesson planning, instruction, and assessment.

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