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Shannon and Mary chat with Khadijah Abdullah, a public school teacher in their area, about how she balances the wide variety of reading abilities in her classroom. Khadijah shares about her trauma-informed teaching practices and how she uses visual literacy to provide learning scaffolds for her students.Episode Links for Resources mentioned:Teaching With Multiple Modalities10 Visual Literacy StrategiesMedia LiteracyVisual LearningTips for Viewing Images in Picture BooksTrauma Informed TeachingTeaching Visual Literacy: Using Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Anime, Cartoons, and More to Develop Comprehension and Thinking Skills *Amazon affiliate link*Teaching Visual Literacy in the Primary Classroom: Comic Books, Film, Television and Picture Narratives (David Fulton Books) *Amazon affiliate link*Visual Approaches to Teaching Writing: Multimodal Literacy 5 - 11 (Published in association with the UKLA)Journey (Aaron Becker's Wordless Triology, 1) *Amazon affiliate link*Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad by Henry Cole *Amazon affiliate link*Connect with Khadijah on Instagram @the_whole_heart_teacherCOME JOIN THE CONVERSATION!Our WebsiteFacebookInstagramShannon's TpT StoreSupport the show Get Literacy Support through our Patreon Bonus Episodes access through your podcast app Bonus episodes access through Patreon Buy us a coffee Get a FREE Green Chef box using our link
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