Bishop coined the phrase windows mirrors and sliding glass doors to explain how children see themselves in books and how they can also learn about the lives of others through.
Mirrors windows and doors book.
It has been twenty nine years since rudine sims bishop s seminal essay mirrors windows and sliding glass doors was published.
For books to provide an opening onto worlds beyond their own experience worlds real or imagined because children need to see children that look different in the books they read.
Developing this background knowledge will prepare you to create a windows and mirrors learning experience for your students.
Windows and mirrors and sliding glass doors.
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Choosing and using books for the classroom.
Mirrors windows doors welcome to mwd celebrating both diversity and our shared humanity through a whole world of children s and ya books.
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And for reading to provide a conduit for children to journey into the world and experience all it has to offer.
Rudine sims bishop published an essay about the importance of providing young readers with diverse books that reflect the multicultural nature of the world in which we live.
Mirrors windows and sliding glass doors author.
Read the curriculum as window and mirror article linked in the resource section below to build your understanding of the concept of windows and mirrors.
When lighting conditions are just right however a window can also be a mirror.
Ensuring students see themselves and others in literature.
These windows are also sliding glass doors and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created and recreated by the author.
Using a google images search identify 3 5 images that serve as a mirror for you and select 1 2 of those images.