2006 30 - CHILDREN'S LITERATURE - A

About This Course

EDUC 328 Children's Literature

A survey of children's literature for early childhood, intermediate,and middle grades with an extensive representation of books from classic and contemporary authors and illustrators. Major literary genres are studied, story-telling techniques are discussed, and issues in literature for children are explored. A developmental perspective for selecting quality books is emphasized.

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Devos

Book Talks/Story Sharing
Students,
Bring this document with you to your on or off campus story sharing. Ask the professional in charge to sign it for you. You are not required to have a lesson plan for this. Turn your completed form into me for a grade/credit.
(.doc, 25K)
Download Story Sharing Self-Evaluation form

Instructional Strategies

In this set will be posted a description of some of the class modeled instructional strategies that can be used to develop literacy using children's literature texts.

Week 2

Scavenger Hunt

Week 4

Understanding Children's Responses to Literature

Week 5-History of Children's Literature Presentations

These powerpoint presentations are also found in the Courses_on_ed/Educ/Scheffler/Inbox/ChiLit/Histpresentations folder

Week 6

Books to Begin On- chapter 4

Week 9

Poetry - chapter 8
On Wednesday, March 21 students will work in pairs or threes to complete the attached worksheet during classtime in the Curriculum Library. Mrs. Herald will take attendance. Students are to complete the worksheet using the template and post a group copy in the designated network folder. The document title should contain the group's last names. Dr. Scheffler will compile the list of quality vs. weak children's poetry, as well as, the poetry sharing ideas and post them as handouts on our course portal site.
(.doc, 35K)
Download Evaluating Children's Poetry Worksheet

Week 11

Historical Fiction- chapter 10

Week 12

Non-Fiction genre/Issues in Children's Books

Week 13

Biography- chapter 12

Week 14

Biography- chapter 12

Bookmarks

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Book Review Resources
Title Description
Award winning books
This is the internet address for the website I found to search award-winning children’s literature.
Julianne Persons
LitLinks

This sight has also been added to the Curriculum Library Web pages under ‘Course Links.” 

After reading a great story, poem, play, essay, or critical article, you may want to know more. The Internet provides all kinds of information to aid your research, so we've compiled LitLinks — annotated to show you what kinds of information about a work, its author, or period you'll find on each site.  LitLinks are organized alphabetically by author within five genres.

 
Harper Collins Award winning books
This is another website I found to search award-winning children’s literature under selected genres.
Stephanie Parker

Text Readability Index

interventioncentral.org...it is rather difficult to navigate because they have so much information. To get to the readability check:
1. scroll down to where it says "Favorite Downloads"
2. Click on "Curriculum-Based Measurement Warehouse"
3. scroll down and on the left, click on "Reading Fluency Probes"
4. Click on "Create Custom Reading Probes"
5. Type 3 separate text excerpts, one at a time, into text box and take the average of the 3 for R. level
Title Description
Link to Text Readabilty Index

National Standards

Title Description
IRA/NCTE k-12 Standards for the English Language Arts
These twelve standards were created in a joint effort by the International Reading Association and the National Council of teachers of English and can be used for K-12
NAEYC/IRA Standards (preschool)
These standards do not follow the outline format. In order to identify the standard write the following:
NAEYC/IRA - phonemic awareness(one of the bolded position statements or phrases)

State Standards

Title Description
PA Early Childhood Continuum Indicators N-grade 3
Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening  Standards for ages pre-K - grade 3
Pennsylvania Dept of Education grades 3-11
From the PDE website, click on  the "Academic Standards" and select "Academic standards for reading, writing, speaking and listening." You may print it as a pdf or word document.