Greater expectations: teaching academic literacy to underrepresented students

1. Why focus on underrepresented students?

2. Familia and classroom culture

3. Literary analysis : reading and writing strategies

4. Autobiographical and biographical writing strategies : using students' lives to engage them in writing and school

5. Teaching argument and research writing strategies

6. Exploring culture-based writing

7. Reflection : the key to growth as a reader, writer, and person

8. Puente : the bigger familia

9. Conclusion.