Using Children's Literature Across the Curriculum

Using Children's Literature Across the Curriculum

Author: Catherine M. O'Callaghan

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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This resource uniquely offers preservice and inservice teachers templates for using quality children's literature to implement six themes across grades K-8. The themes are based on national curriculum standards and text sets are carefully selected to facilitate discussion, analysis, and problem solving across the grades. Using Children's Literature Across the Curriculum, provides teachers with a guide to using multilayered texts to facilitate students' attainment of critical literacy. It is designed to be a supplemental text to guide teachers in designing literacy instruction. The instructional sequence includes collaborative inquiry activities across the curriculum to extend each theme to math, science, technology and social studies. Teachers are shown how to incorporate family literacy with a component entitled 'Home School Connections' and to differentiate instruction for individual learners with a section entitled 'On Your Own Activities'. The theme concludes with a critical literacy activity that applies the content knowledge of the theme with collaborative inquiry. A unique feature of the handbook is the emphasis on performance based assessment with each instructional sequence containing two rubrics for the teacher to implement. The instructional sequences are meant as models for teachers to use in developing their own themes in order to facilitate critical literacy. These 'models' can be adjusted to fit the reading level of the students as teachers become more familiar with the text's structure and their students' needs.


Children's Literature and Learning

Children's Literature and Learning

Author: Barbara A. Lehman

Publisher:

Published: 2007-10-27

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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Literary study should encourage both children’s pleasure and skill in reading. In this engaging book, Barbara Lehman shows how to create meaningful, intellectually stimulating programs of literary study that are developmentally appropriate for students’ needs, interests, and experiences (ages 5-12). Drawing on her extensive scholarship in the fields of children’s literature and literacy instruction, she offers practical ideas for creating programs that accomplish curricular goals in literary ways. Featuring a usable overview of important literary theories as well as many practical teaching ideas, this book will help classroom teachers become more knowledgeable and self-assured about creating their own literature programs for children. Book Features: A theoretically based model for creating developmentally appropriate literary study programs in elementary schools. Methods for teaching across the curriculum, including how to set up a classroom for literary learning. References with annotations of more than 130 children’s books.


Teaching with Children's Literature

Teaching with Children's Literature

Author: Margaret Vaughn

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2021-10-12

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1462547230

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Machine generated contents note: Foreword, Elfrieda H. Hiebert -- 1. Introduction: Beliefs about Children's Literature -- 2. What Is Purposeful Teaching with Literature? -- 3. What Matters When Teaching with Literature in the Classroom? -- 4. What Do Books Have to Offer? -- 5. How Can We Help Students Understand the Books They Read? -- 6. How Can We Encourage Students to Read Widely? -- 7. How Can We Incorporate Expository Text Purposefully? -- 8. How Can We Use Writing and Discussing to Make Sense of Reading? -- 9. How Can We Encourage Reading Beyond the Classroom? -- 10. How Do We Put It All Together? -- Appendix A. Books to Support Student Agency -- Appendix B. Books to Talk about Visioning with Students -- Appendix C. Books by Genre -- Appendix D. Book Awards -- Appendix E. Popular Series Books -- Appendix F. Book Club Choices -- Appendix G. Children's and Teen Choice Awards -- References -- Children's Literature -- Children's Literature by Appendix -- Index -- .


Creating Curriculum Using Children’s Picture Books, Grades PK - 1

Creating Curriculum Using Children’s Picture Books, Grades PK - 1

Author: Sherrill B. Flora

Publisher: Key Education Publishing

Published: 2010-06-11

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 1602689229

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Facilitate literacy in students in grades PK–1 with Creating Curriculum Using Children's Picture Books. This 96-page book connects basic skills to 18 stories that students already love! Each featured storybook provides connections to language arts, math, social studies, science, art, motor skills, creative dramatics, and social skills. This resource includes information for teaching with favorites, such as Clifford the Big Red Dog, Corduroy, Goodnight Moon, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, and The Polar Express. The book supports National Science Education Standards and NAEYC, NCTE, NCTM, and NCSS standards.


Teaching Children's Literature

Teaching Children's Literature

Author: Christine Leland

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0415508665

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Offers a fresh perspective on how to implement childrens literature across the curriculum in ways that are both effective and purposeful. It invites multiple ways of engaging with literature that extend beyond the genre and elements approach and also addresses potential problems or issues that teachers may confront.


Teaching Tough Topics

Teaching Tough Topics

Author: Larry Swartz

Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited

Published: 2020-01-15

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1551389428

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Teaching Tough Topics shows teachers how to lead students to become caring citizens as they read and respond to quality children’s literature. It focuses on topics that can be challenging or sensitive, yet are significant in order to build understanding of social justice, diversity, and equity. Racism, Homophobia, Bullying, Religious Intolerance, Poverty, and Physical and Mental Challenges are just some of the themes explored. The book is rooted in the belief that by using picture books, novels, poetry, and nonfiction, teachers can enrich learning with compassion and empathy as students make connections to texts, to others, and to the world.


Children's Literature in the Reading Program, Fifth Edition

Children's Literature in the Reading Program, Fifth Edition

Author: Deborah A. Wooten

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2018-06-15

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1462535763

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This indispensable teacher resource and course text, now revised and updated, addresses the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos" of incorporating outstanding children's literature into the K–8 reading program. A strong emphasis on diverse literature is woven throughout the fifth edition, with chapters emphasizing the need for books that reflect their readers and presenting dozens of carefully reviewed books that teachers will be eager to use in the classroom. Leading authorities provide advice on selecting texts, building core literacy and literary skills, supporting struggling readers, and maximizing engagement. The volume offers proven strategies for teaching specific genres and formats, such as fiction, nonfiction, picturebooks, graphic novels, biographies, and poetry. This title is a copublication with the International Literacy Association. New to This Edition *Many new teaching ideas and book recommendations, with an increased focus on culturally diverse literature. *Scope expanded from K–5 to K–8. *Chapter on using read-alouds and silent reading. *Chapters on diverse literature about the arts and on transitional chapter books. *Chapter on engaging struggling readers with authentic reading experiences.


Teaching Children's Literature

Teaching Children's Literature

Author: Christine H. Leland

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-03

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 1351979620

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Inviting multiple ways of critically engaging with literature, this text offers a fresh perspective on how to integrate children’s literature into and across the curriculum in effective, purposeful ways. Structured around three "mantras" that build on each other—Enjoy; Dig deeply; Take action—the book is rich with real examples of teachers implementing critical pedagogy. The materials and practical strategies focus on issues that impact children’s lives, building from students’ personal experiences and cultural knowledge to using language to question the everyday world, analyze popular culture and media, understand how power relationships are socially constructed, and consider actions that can be taken to promote social justice. Written for teachers and teacher educators, each chapter opens with three elements that are closely linked: classroom vignettes showcasing the use of literature and inviting conversation; three key principles elaborating the main theme of the chapter and connecting theory with practice; and related research on the topics and their importance for curriculum. Other chapter features include key issues in implementation, suggestions for working with linguistically and culturally diverse students, alternative approaches to assessment, and suggestions for further reading. A companion website to enrich and extend the text includes an annotated bibliography of literature selections, suggested text sets, resources by chapter, and ideas for professional development. Changes in the Second Edition: Voices from the Field vignettes include examples from inspiring educators who use trade books to promote critical thinking and diversity Updated chapters include information on new technology and electronic resources New references in the principles sections and new resources for further study New children’s books added throughout the chapters as well as to the companion website