Translanguaging Spaces for Student Literacy Learning: A Researcher–Teacher Partnership

Bernardo listened to Swarm of Bees (Snicket, 2019), discussed it with a mixed language group of peers and created a personal response to the story. A simple evaluation of Bernardo’s written language (‘swarm of bees’; ‘tomatos!!!’ tells us very little about his comprehension. To see the remarkable in the unremarkable (Mavers, 2011), we must probe beyond the ordinary. Bernardo’s drawing reveals the main character (boy) with a basket full of tomatoes and a straight-lined mouth representing the anger the boy felt. The stripes at the top (queen bee) and the gray and black dots represent the angry bees. According to