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Children's Books in Children's Hands
  • Language: en

Children's Books in Children's Hands

Framing the content within a perspective of cultural diversity, renowned authors Charlie Temple, Junko Yokota and Miriam Martinez take the reader inside the workings of children's literature, focusing on ways in which literature elicits responses from young readers, genre by genre and book by book. The authors provide a full range of thoughtful and practical suggestions for sharing and exploring literature with children. A wonderful resource for current and future K-8 teachers, reading specialists, and parents.

Thinking and Learning through Children's Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 231

Thinking and Learning through Children's Literature

Much of teachers’ attention these days is focused on having students read closely to ferret out the author’s intended meaning and the devices used to convey that meaning. But we cannot forget to guide students to have moving engagements with literature, because they need to make strong personal connections to books of merit if they are to become the next generation of readers: literate people with awareness of and concern for the diversity of human beings around them and in different times and places. Fortunately, guiding both students’ personal engagement with literature and their close reading to appreciate the author’s message and craft are not incompatible goals. This book enthus...

Books Come Alive
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 229

Books Come Alive

Books Come Alive: Reading Aloud and Reading Along with Young Children is about using read alouds to promote empathy and the ability to think deeply in response to literature. Grounded in research and theory, the book explores how to ensure that read alouds have maximum instructional value to promote literacy and spark children’s lifelong love of literature. This book offers teachers information about book selection, how to plan for and conduct read alouds, and extend children’s experiences. The book also includes a vetted and extensive compendium of high-quality books for read alouds, accompanied by a framework for teaching with those books.

Child Autonomy and Child Governance in Children's Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Child Autonomy and Child Governance in Children's Literature

This book explores representations of child autonomy and self-governance in children’s literature.The idea of child rule and child realms is central to children’s literature, and childhood is frequently represented as a state of being, with children seen as aliens in need of passports to Adultland (and vice versa). In a sense all children’s literature depends on the idea that children are different, separate, and in command of their own imaginative spaces and places. Although the idea of child rule is a persistent theme in discussions of children’s literature (or about children and childhood) the metaphor itself has never been properly unpacked with critical reference to examples fro...

Public Library Collection Development in the Information Age
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

Public Library Collection Development in the Information Age

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998-08-21
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

Public Library Collection Development in the Information Age discusses the increasing amounts of information that are used in collection development. Case studies, interviews, and research are the basis for this book's suggestions to improve your collection methods without straining your library's budget. It will help you acquire the most useful materials while sharing information with collaborating libraries to offer patrons the latest and largest variety of resources. Discussing a topic that is scarcely addressed in collection literature, this book explores ways in which one informational medium—the Internet—impacts materials budgets, selection tools, and alternative sources of informa...

Beginning Reading and Writing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Beginning Reading and Writing

In this essay collection, scholars in the area of early literacy provide concrete strategies for achieving excellence in literacy instruction. The collection presents current, research-based information on the advances and refinements in the area of emerging literacy and the early stages of formal instruction in reading and writing. Following a foreword (Alan Farstrup) and an introduction (Dorothy S. Strickland and Lesley Mandel Morrow), chapters in the collection are: (1) "Beginning Reading and Writing: Perspectives on Instruction" (William H. Teale and Junko Yokota); (2) "Becoming a Reader: A Developmentally Appropriate Approach" (Susan B. Neuman and Sue Bredekamp); (3) "Literacy Instructi...

Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1253

Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-04-27
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This landmark volume is the first to bring together leading scholarship on children’s and young adult literature from three intersecting disciplines: Education, English, and Library and Information Science. Distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach, it describes and analyzes the different aspects of literary reading, texts, and contexts to illuminate how the book is transformed within and across different academic figurations of reading and interpreting children’s literature. Part one considers perspectives on readers and reading literature in home, school, library, and community settings. Part two introduces analytic frames for studying young adult novels, picturebooks, indigenous...

Children's Books in Children's Hands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

Children's Books in Children's Hands

This title is only available as a loose-leaf version with Pearson eText. Children's Books in Children's Hands, 5/e is designed to give pre- and in-service teachers a wealth of richly illustrated, practical ideas for sharing literature with children. In it, renowned authors Charles Temple, Miriam Martinez, and Junko Yokota introduce readers to dozens of new books and the riches they contain; to their qualities; and to the many writers, illustrators, editors, and critics involved with those books. Coverage of the many genres of children's books includes picture books; literature of diverse perspectives; international literature; poetry; traditional literature; modern fantasy and science fictio...

Critical Multicultural Analysis of Children's Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 376

Critical Multicultural Analysis of Children's Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-05-07
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  • Publisher: Routledge

"Children’s literature is a contested terrain, as is multicultural education. Taken together, they pose a formidable challenge to both classroom teachers and academics.... Rather than deny the inherent conflicts and tensions in the field, in Critical Multicultural Analysis of Children’s Literature: Mirrors, Windows, and Doors, Maria José Botelho and Masha Kabakow Rudman confront, deconstruct, and reconstruct these terrains by proposing a reframing of the field.... Surely all of us – children, teachers, and academics – can benefit from this more expansive understanding of what it means to read books." Sonia Nieto, From the Foreword Critical multicultural analysis provides a philosoph...

Multicultural Literature and Literacies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Multicultural Literature and Literacies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993-01-01
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Does literature serve a humanizing function? Can it achieve social transformation? What roles does literature play for defining self, creating community, and achieving global perspective? This is the first book to thoroughly explore the methods by which educators, creative writers, and policymakers have constructed workable models of teaching literature in multicultural classrooms. The authors provide an interdisciplinary dialogue on the setbacks, solutions, silences, and successes that often occur in classes of multicultural literature. They all take the stance that definitions of literacy and literature originate as much outside the classroom as within it. With the inclusion of essays by writers themselves--a feature provided by no other book on this subject--the authors offer a unique vocalization of the nationalistic, economic, empowering, and moral purposes that reading and writing serve. The book also includes a current guide to selected resources in multicultural literature, in hopes of encouraging and facilitating instructors in the transformation of their own literature courses into multicultural ones.