Introduction of Volume X Issue 3

Abstract

This issue of WOW Stories: Connections from the Classroom includes vignettes from three global literacy communities in Arizona and Tennessee, including a private school in a rural community and public schools in urban areas of the South and Southwest. Educators in these communities are committed to the use of global literature with children to explore language and culture across global contexts. The communities are connected by their focus on carefully selecting global books for their classrooms and on spending time as teachers exploring and discussing these books together as a study group before bringing them into classrooms.

Keywords

• teaching
• education
• literacy community