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Maya's Book Nook: Beyond the Book Resources

By Maya's Book Nook Last updated 2025/08/22

Description

Maya’s Book Nook is a website created by Speech-Language Pathologist Dr. Lakeisha Johnson. The Behind the Book section houses a bank of materials to accompany a diverse, culturally relevant children’s book. Equally useful for both parents/caregivers and educators, these handouts include target vocabulary words, as well as questions to support dialogic reading to build language comprehension.

Curriculum Connection

Culturally responsive and relevant pedagogy is a key element of the Language curriculum. This pedagogy "recognizes students’ various cultural and linguistic identities as critical resources in language and literacy instruction and learning."
Grade(s): K 1 2 3 4 5 6
Topic(s): ComprehensionCulturally Relevant and Responsive PedagogyOral LanguageVocabulary

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