CHILDREN’S MULTICULTURAL BOOK
COLLECTION
Brianna Adkins
Ivy Tech Community College
Standard #2: Learning Differences The teacher uses understanding of individual differences and diverse cultures and communities to ensure inclusive learning environments that enable each learner to meet high standards.
Name of Artifact: Children’s Multicultural Book Collection
Date: July 19, 2015
Course: EDUC 255
Brief Description: For this assignment, I gave two multicultural children’s books that can help students understand race and disabilities. These books show how we are all the same and should be treated the same because we are all people.
Rationale: To document my understanding of Standard #2, I showed how the differences between cultures and children with disabilities are all around us. Using one as a new student in a classroom and another as a different nationality to learn and study about their culture.
HAPPY BEL LY, HAPPY SM IL E BY RACHEL IS ADO RA
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
September 28th, 2009
Genre: Fiction
Theme: Chinese culture, Learning numbers
Summary: This book teaches children what kind of culture the Chinese
have and how America can have any nationality or race. A young boy visits
his families restaurant in China town and gives a story on the fortune
cookie.
Activity: Make a Chinese fan with numbers on each flap.
What makes this book Multicultural? This book is multicultural because
it shows a piece of Chinese culture that was brought here to America. This
book is not stereotyped in that it talks about Chinese culture but simply
shares traditions and ideas.
A VERY SPECIAL CR IT TER BY MERCER MAYER
Publisher: Random House Children’s Books
April 28th, 1993
Genre: Fiction
Theme: Physical Disabilities
Summary: This book is about a new special student that joins Little
Critter’s class at school. This new student uses a wheelchair and he
learns to be accepting to people who look different than he does.
Activity: Have students try and do different tasks in a small
wheelchair.
What makes this book Multicultural? This book is multicultural
because it helps form an understanding to students that people may
look different than us but are just the same and feel the way we do.