{"id":1547,"date":"2010-04-21T01:39:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T05:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2010-04-21T02:14:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T06:14:55","slug":"helping-readers-see-themselves-in-a-text-ncte-inbox-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/21\/helping-readers-see-themselves-in-a-text-ncte-inbox-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping Readers See Themselves in a Text (NCTE Inbox Blog)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sanjoselibrary\/2839904415\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/2010\/04\/20girl.jpg\" alt=\"Girl reading, CC Flickr photo by SanJoseLibrary\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"12\" vspace=\"6\" border=\"0\"><\/a>As a young reader, I wanted stories about young girls, about their accomplishments as women, and about the journeys they took from child to adult. I didn&#8217;t want to be bothered with stories of boys becoming apprentices, men fighting battles, or chopping their way through forests. I wanted to see people who were like me. I wanted to read about people who were like the person I wanted to become. <a href=\"http:\/\/ncteinbox.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/helping-readers-see-themselves-in-text.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more in my Inbox blog<\/a> and learn how helping readers make personal connections to texts is related to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwritethink.org\/classroom-resources\/lesson-plans\/assessing-cultural-relevance-exploring-1003.html\" target=\"_blank\">El d\u00c3\u00ada de los ni\u00c3\u00b1os\/El d\u00c3\u00ada de los libros (Children\u2019s Day\/Book Day)<\/a> on April 30. <\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sanjoselibrary\/2839904415\/\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Commons licensed Flickr photo by SanJoseLibrary<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a young reader, I wanted stories about young girls, about their accomplishments as women, and about the journeys they took from child to adult. I didn&#8217;t want to be bothered with stories of boys becoming apprentices, men fighting battles, or chopping their way through forests. I wanted to see people who were like me. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3],"tags":[66,65],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classroom-activity","category-inbox","tag-comprehension","tag-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-oX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1554,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/1554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}