"When a child from a different cultural background, so full of wonderful local and vernacular knowledge, is required to join our school system and learn our ways, we tend to ignore his local literacy and ways of knowing the world. We expect him to step across an abyss, directly onto the paths of our literacies and into our ways of knowing. Obviously, to make this happen without casualties, we much construct some bridges - bridges for us to walk across and carefully lead the students over, into the world of our school literacies." Based on the above quote from the article, "Respecting Students' Cultural Literacies," how do you plan to build the bridges the author describes? Be specific in your response and DO NOT simply add onto one of your classmates' comments.