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Think carefully about how you might lead your students into a conversation about immigration after reading Areli Is a Dreamer, for example, or consider the discussion around the character’s feelings about her skin color in Black Is a Rainbow Color. Lastly, think deeply about the text: In her book Cultivating Genius, Gholdy Muhammad tells us that we must ask ourselves, what will this text help my students to accomplish? Ultimately, we want to use books as a springboard to dive into deeper issues.It’s not always going to be a perfect fit, but if you spend time in the text, something will stand out to you. Pull books with rich content and with topics that your students will connect to.

Authors don’t write books with comprehension skills in mind, so we should not try to select books based on skills.

Consider skills, but don’t center them: Because we teach in a standards-run society, it can be challenging to decenter the comprehension skill.

Find texts that will help them continue to develop in their identity. Find out about their families and cultures. This interview originally appeared in the November/December 2019 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Picture Books, an advertising supplement that allows participating. In order for you to select the best books, you have to know your students. Black is a culture, writes Angela Joy in Black Is a Rainbow Color, an ode to Blackness illustrated by Coretta Scott King Award winner Ekua Holmes.

Know your students: One of the most notable features of inclusive texts is that they allow students to see parts of themselves.