Alvarez, Alfred. "Finding a Voice."
The Writer's Voice.
London: W. W. Norton, 2005. The author analyzes how the writer's voice impacts readers by referring to the writers and poets of the world classical literature.
Alvarez, Julia. "My English," "The First Muse," "Of Maids and Other Muses," "So Much Depends," "Dona Aida, With Your Permission."
Something to Declare.
Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1998. These gripping essays portray Alvarez's acquisition of English and influences she experienced on her long way to find her true Latin American voice.
Alvarez, Julia. "On Finding a Latino Voice."
The Washington Post Book World
14 May 1995:1. Alvarez shares that she was embarrassed by her ethnicity for a long time until she discovered a way "to put together her Dominican and American selves."
Anzaldua, Gloria. "How to Tame a Wild Tongue."
Borderlands: La Frontera.
San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1999. 75-86. Anzaldua details about her rich experience of many identities and languages that she has and speaks as a Mexican-American.
Booth, Wayne C.
The Rhetoric of Fiction.
Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1983. Part four, "The Author's Many Voices," of the opening chapter, "Telling and Showing," refers to authors of the world literature to describe the various voices in a fictional text.
Culham, Ruth. "Chapter 5: Sparking Voice."
6+1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for the Primary Grades
. New York: Scholastic, 2005. This is a solid resource on teaching writing for primary teachers; it contains nine engaging, easy-to-read chapters on seven key traits of writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation.
ESL Standards for Pre-K-12 Students. Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc., 1997. Standards and goals are illustrated by vignettes for all grade levels.
Fourth Generation CMT Objectives.
New Haven Public Schools Reading Department. Draft 1/14/05. The objectives are accompanied by a few examples of the type of stems created to measure each content strand.
Rodriguez, Richard. "Bilingualism, Con: Outdated and Unrealistic."
The New York Times
10 November 1985: 12.63. Rodriguez expresses his strong opposition to bilingual education stressing that it is not as much an ethnic issue as a social one.
Rodriguez, Richard. "Aria."
Hunger of Memory: the Education of Richard Rodriguez: an Autobiography.
Boston, Mass.: D.R. Godine, 1982. This chapter describes the process of English language acquisition by Rodriguez as a child and the consequences it has caused. He insists that Spanish, which is also his native tongue, is a private language for Latin American kids and it should not be used in the English classroom.
