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Preface
Purpose
This resource guide provides information on how teachers from preschool through high school can use personal, family, and community stories to:
- Bring students' narrative voice into the classroom
- Enrich teaching and learning by tapping into students' knowledge, lives, families, culture, and community
- Engage and motivate students to write
- Reinforce reading, writing, speaking, listening, and thinking connections and competencies
This guide is divided into two main parts: a literature review and practitioner examples. The research and literature reviewed explore the topics of writing instruction and the importance of personal, family, and community stories. The practitioner examples describe projects teachers have implemented that use personal, family, and community stories. The examples draw on the insights and practices of teachers to show how schools in the messy, real world of the classroom are creating innovative and effective strategies to meet the needs of our increasingly diverse student population.
