Culturally Responsive Instruction

You have been learning about issues of cultural and linguistic diversity and their impact on student achievement. In this assignment you are asked to use your own personal and professional experiences to write a paper analyzing and defending the use of culturally responsive teaching to support effective literacy instruction. In your analysis:

• Produce a research-based rationale for the use of culturally responsive teaching in literacy instruction. You must include at least one scholarly source in this section;
  
• Describe at least three research-based techniques that educators can use to support this pedagogy. You must back your assertions with at least one scholarly source in this section;
  
• Discuss the instructional implications of this pedagogical approach.

Your paper must be three-to five-pages not including the title or reference pages. It must be written in APA format per the Ashford Writing Center Guidelines with at least two scholarly resources, in addition to the course text.