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MULTICULTURAL LITERATURE IMPORTANCE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Helps students find themselves
      - Students need to be able to make connections between literature and their everyday lives
        
        Receive affirmation of themselves and their culture
- - - - Many had not considered the dilemma that children had to face
        
        Lack of apropriate literature that aknowledges diversity in the classroom
      - "I didn't realize that there are children that feel like they had nothing to read and relate to"
      - Students began to empathize with children from underrepresented cultures in children's literature
    - - Build an understanding of respect for people from different cultures
      - We should be subjected to books by authors of every race and culture
      - The first key is abolish ignorance that one has of others
        
        Empowering students with cultural diversity and tolerance
    - - "I started reading a book and i could relate to some of what the girls were going through... Over the years i felt like i grew up with them"
      - "I use to feel like i was made wrong because i rarely saw any character in wheelchairs"
      - "When i did hear about my culture it always went back to the slave years"
      - Children are less engaged in the reading process, when tey cannot find themselves in the classroom literature
        
        It spread a message that school is for someone else
      - Students are often asked to make connections while reading
      - Opportunity to celebrate who they are while learning about others
    - - Need to extend the article's focus
    - - They saw the importance of seeing yourself in the books you read
        
        A literature for all the children in their classes
    - - Need to examine their materials and challenge their own cultural perspectives
      - Learn how to use the literature to better serve all children