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Teaching and Reaching Diverse Learners

April 20, 2023 • Shannon Betts and Mary Saghafi • Season 5 • Episode 16

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Shannon and Mary chat with Khadijah Abdullah, a public school teacher in their area, about how she balances the wide variety of reading abilities in her classroom. Khadijah shares about her trauma-informed teaching practices and how she uses visual literacy to provide learning scaffolds for her students.

Episode Links for Resources mentioned:

Teaching With Multiple Modalities
10 Visual Literacy Strategies
Media Literacy
Visual Learning
Tips for Viewing Images in Picture Books
Trauma Informed Teaching
Teaching Visual Literacy: Using Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Anime, Cartoons, and More to Develop Comprehension and Thinking Skills *Amazon affiliate link*
Teaching Visual Literacy in the Primary Classroom: Comic Books, Film, Television and Picture Narratives (David Fulton Books) *Amazon affiliate link*
Visual Approaches to Teaching Writing: Multimodal Literacy 5 - 11 (Published in association with the UKLA)
Journey (Aaron Becker's Wordless Triology, 1) *Amazon affiliate link*
Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad by Henry Cole *Amazon affiliate link*
Connect with Khadijah on Instagram @the_whole_heart_teacher

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