Language—how we use it and what we think about it—can help or hinder our students’ high-level learning, especially kids from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Despite our best efforts to ensure students and their families are connected and thriving in our classrooms, sometimes we miss the mark, and they feel isolated by their languages, dialects, and cultures.

Your Words Are Fire presents ten teaching strategies to help you build a bridge between the languages your students are using and the languages they need for academic success, while supporting their cultural and linguistic identities. Authors Lissette Jacobson and Maurice McDavid show how to: 

• Connect languages, dialects, and cultures to classwork
• Build relationships with culturally and linguistically diverse students and families
• Teach students that communication involves words, tone, and body language 
• Use linguistics to prepare students for an interconnected world
• Expand multilingual vocabulary in all subjects so everyone grows and learns

Break beyond the status quo that leaves you searching for better ways to connect with your students and the languages and cultures they bring into your classroom. Empower your multilingual and bi-dialectical students to learn and succeed while teaching everyone in your class the value of diverse cultures, dialects, and communication styles.

Your Words Are Fire offers clear, strategic guidance for incorporating linguistics in your classroom and school to help students learn, express ideas, and solve problems. The conversations you exchange with all students are paramount to their success in an interconnected world.

Your words can break down learning barriers and invite diverse perspectives and approaches into the classroom—blazing a new trail to high-level learning.

Learn more about Lissette Jacobson and Maurice McDavid.

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