Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, students, families, and educators have faced unprecedented challenges. These challenges have disproportionately impacted racially/ethnically diverse, low-income communities because of long-standing health system, socioeconomic, and educational inequities. With closures of schools, libraries, and childcare centers, many students were disconnected from their community and did not have access to books. Parents’ and educators’ concerns centered around students falling behind academically and socially. In this article, we explain the motivation and rationale for a social justice initiative to provide students of color from low-poverty areas with access to high-quality multicultural children’s literature at home. We describe our literacy partnership with a local after-school program serving participant students and families, research underpinning the initiative, and our process for selecting high-quality multicultural literature book sets and offer suggestions about how to facilitate comprehension and motivational support for home-based reading. We also offer a list of recommended literature and discuss outcomes and implications of this project.

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COVID-19 期间获取多元文化儿童文学


在 COVID-19 大流行期间，学生、家庭和教育工作者面临着前所未有的挑战。由于长期存在的卫生系统、社会经济和教育不平等，这些挑战对种族/民族多元化的低收入社区产生了不成比例的影响。随着学校、图书馆和托儿中心的关闭，许多学生与社区失去联系，也无法获得书籍。家长和教育工作者的担忧主要集中在学生在学业和社交方面落后。在本文中，我们解释了社会正义倡议的动机和理由，该倡议旨在为来自低贫困地区的有色人种学生提供在家中接触高质量多元文化儿童文学的机会。我们描述了我们与当地为参与学生和家庭提供服务的课后计划的扫盲合作伙伴关系、支持该计划的研究以及我们选择高质量多元文化文学书籍集的过程，并就如何促进对家庭的理解和激励支持提供了建议。阅读。我们还提供了推荐文献列表，并讨论了该项目的成果和影响。