exploring culturally relevant texts with kindergartners and their families

Both-Gragg Article Reviewed: Katie Schrodt, Jeanne Gilliam Fain and Michelle Hast, “Exploring Cultural Relevant Texts With Kindergartners and Their Families”, The Reading Teacher Volume 68, Issue 8, pages 589–598, May 2015 “Exploring Cultural Relevant Texts with Kindergartners and Their Families” in, The Reading Teacher volume by Katie Schrodt, Jeanne Gilliam Fain, and Michelle Hast captured my attention due to the nature of the using cultural literature as a tool to educate diversity within the family and school settings. The research is crucial as it plays a pivotal role in informing with an in-depth view of the relationships in the cultural settings relevance to the modalities that should be employed by teachers and families in enhancing the closing in the gap between home and school (Schrodt, Fain, & Hasty, 2015).The primary focus was, bridging the gap between family and school utilizing the tools of literature linked to subject matters of diversity. The contemporary socie...