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

    Name Description Status Source
    Facing Your Giants
    Required facing your giantsppt.ppt
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  • Assignments- Forms and Rubrics

    Name Description Status Source
    Book Talk Rubric Required booktalkj.doc
    National Early Childhood Reading/Writing Standards Required NAEYCIRALearning to Read and Write Standards.doc
    Revised Database Submission Form- 21-30
    Required 21-30sp07.xls
    Benchmark #4 Books Reviews 31-42
    Required 31-42.xls
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  • Book Talks/Story Sharing

    Name Description Status Source
    91 Ways to Respond to Literature.doc
    Required 91 Ways to Respond to Literature.doc
    120 Story Sharing Ideas
    Required sp07120 Ways to Share a Book.doc
    Story Sharing Self-Evaluation form
    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.
    Required storyshairngselfevalform.doc
    EEC Story Sharing Schedule
    Required EECstorysharsign-upspring07.doc
    Hillview Story Sharing Schedule
    Required Storysharingsp07sche.doc
    Book talk schedule spring 07
    Required booktalksignupspring07signatures.doc
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  • 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.
    Name Description Status Source
    Literature Circles
    Required What are literature circles.doc
    Directed Reading Model
    Required The Directed Reading Model.doc
    Second grade reading strategies
    Required 2nd grade reading strategies.doc
    First grade reading strategies
    Required 1st grade reading strategies.doc
    QTA Expository Text
    Required QTA-Expository Text.doc
    QTA Expository Text Worksheet
    Required QTA-Expository Textworksheet.doc
    QTA Narrative Text
    Required QTA-Narative Text.doc
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  • Week 1

    Name Description Status Source
    Reid, 15 Funniest Children's Classics Required Reid, 15 Funniest Children's Classics.pdf
    EDUC 328 Syllabus
    Required EDUC328childlitsyllabusportalviewspring 07.doc
    Weisman, 15 Classic Read-Alouds Required Weisman, 15 Classic Read-Alouds.pdf
    Veith quote 2003 Required Since truth Veith04.doc
    15 classic caldecotts Required 15 classic calecotts.pdf
    Chapter 1 ppt. 2
    Required Kiefer9_PPT_Ch01.ppt2.ppt
    15 classic caldecotts Required 15 classic calecotts.pdf
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  • Model Electronic Book Reviews

    Name Description Status Source
    BrownPPT.ppt
    Required BrownPPT.ppt
    Submitted by Nicole Tressler.doc
    Required Submitted by Nicole Tressler.doc
    FichterPPT.ppt
    Required FichterPPT.ppt
    MattsonPPT.ppt
    Required MattsonPPT.ppt
    Picture Books.one
    Required Picture Books.one
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  • Week 2

    Scavenger Hunt
    Name Description Status Source
    Allington, Books in the Classroom Required Allington, Books in the Classroom not Sufficient.pdf
    Chapter 13 ppt
    Planning the Literature Program
    Required Kiefer9_PPT_Ch13.pptrevised.ppt
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  • Week 3

    Planning the Literature Program
    Name Description Status Source
    Kazemek,Telling and writing stories across generations Required Kazemek, Reading and Writing Across Generations.pdf
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  • Week 4

    Understanding Children's Responses to Literature
    Name Description Status Source
    Timeline form
    Copy and paste this document into your partner presentation as an introductory overview.
    Required Timelineform.doc
    Amour, Connecting Children's Stories Required Amour, Connectinng Stories to Cultural Diversity.pdf
    History Presentations Rubric
    Required History of child lit Presentationsrubric.doc
    Literature History Groups
    Required histpressignupsp07.doc
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  • 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
    Name Description Status Source
    Early Beginnings ppt.
    Required Early Beginnings.ppt
    17th and 18th Centuries
    Required 17th and 18th centuries.ppt
    19th Century
    Required 19th Century.ppt
    Late 20th Century
    Required Late20thCentury.ppt
    Multicultural Literature
    Required Multicultural Literature.ppt
    Recent Trends
    Required Recent Trends.ppt
    First Half of the 20th Centuryppt
    Required Firsthalf20thcenturydrt2ppt
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  • Week 6

    Books to Begin On- chapter 4
    Name Description Status Source
    Munson-Benson, 15 Classic Picture Books Required Munson-Benson, 15 Classic Picture Books.pdf
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  • Week 7

    Picture Books- Chapter 5
    Traditional Literature- Chapter 6
    Name Description Status Source
    Recent Caldecott Winners with criteria
    Required Recent Caldecott Award Winners.doc
    Selecting Middle School Picture Books
    Required middleschoolpicturebooks.pdf
    Munson-Benson, 15 Classic Picture Books Required Munson-Benson, 15 Classic Picture Books.pdf
    Ch. 5 Picture Books ppts
    Required revisedKiefer9_PPT_Ch05.ppt
    Fun Stamps
    Required stamps.doc
    Marlow, Updating children's literature Required Marlow, Challenge in Children's Literature.doc
    Hornik, Creative Rellings of Classics
    Not required reading
    Required Hornik, 15 prequels, sequels, and retellings of classics.pdf
    Rumpelstiltskin
    In class activity
    Required Rumplestiltksin vattalestemplate.doc
    Chapter 6 Traditional Literature ppt
    Required revised2chapter6ppt.ppt
    Rumplestiltskin Variants Compared
    Required Rumplestiltkskinvariantscompared.doc
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  • Three Pigs Variants - Writing Workshop Activity

    Name Description Status Source
    Three Pigs Bulletin Board
    Required Three Pigs Bulletin Board Write up.doc
    Three Pigs Resources
    Required Three Pigs Resources.doc
    Three Pigs Students Stories
    Required Three Pigs student stories 2.doc
    Writing Workshop Presentations
    Required Writing Workshop-Three Pigs presentations.doc
    Contemporary Realistic Fiction Awards- Spring 2007
    Required Literature Awards.sp07.doc
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  • Week 8

    Modern  Fantasy- chapter 7
    Name Description Status Source
    Jacobs, 15 Classic Fantasies Required Jacobs, 15 Classic Fantasies.pdf
    Objective Evaluation Criteria
    For  Picture books, traditional literature and modern fantasy
    Required evalcritgenres1-2sp07.doc
    Modern Fantasy Worksheet
    Required criteriamodfantasyworksheet.doc
    Chapter 7 Modern Fantasy ppt
    Required revised Ch07modfantasysp07.ppt
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  • Week 9

    Poetry - chapter 8
    Name Description Status Source
    Evaluating Children's Poetry Worksheet
    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.
    Required evalchipoetrytemplate.doc
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  • Week 10

    Contemporary Realistic Fiction- chapter 9
    Name Description Status Source
    Contemporary Realistic Fiction
    Required reivsedchapter.ppt
    Saul to Paul Award Model
    Required saul2paulawardgroup4.doc
    Another Award Model
    Required Contemporary Realistic Fiction Criteria Book Award.htm
    A poem
    Required a poem.doc
    Literature Awards Spring 07
    Required Literature Awards.sp07.doc
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  • Week 11

    Historical Fiction- chapter 10
    Name Description Status Source
    Historical Fiction ppt Required revisedhisfictionCh10.ppt
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  • Week 12

    Non-Fiction genre/Issues in Children's Books
    Name Description Status Source
    Evaluation Criteria for Non Fiction Genre
    Required focusedEval Nonfiction.doc
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  • Week 13

    Biography- chapter 12
    Name Description Status Source
    Biography Ch. 12 ppt.
    Required Biography Chapter 12.ppt
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  • Week 14

    Biography- chapter 12
    Name Description Status Source
    Unit Plan Presentation Rubric
    Required EDUC 328 Unit Plan Evaluation Criteria.doc
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  • Final Exam

    Name Description Status Source
    Revised criteria for picture books
    Required sp07classevalpicbkscriteria.doc
    Revised schedule from Easter to Final
    Required revisedschedule41107.doc
    Criteria for Evaluating Children's Literature
    All seven genres
    Required evaluationcriteria7genressp07.doc
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  • Book Review Resources

    This is the internet address for the website I found to search award-winning children’s literature.
    Julianne Persons
    Required
    www.dawcl.com

    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.

     

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    www.bedfordstmartins.com
    This is another website I found to search award-winning children’s literature under selected genres.
    Stephanie Parker
    Required
    www.harpercollins.com
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  • 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
    Required
    www.interventioncentral.org
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  • National Standards

    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
    Required
    www.readwritethink.org
    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)
    Required
    www.naeyc.org
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  • State Standards

    Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening  Standards for ages pre-K - grade 3
    Required
    www.iu13.k12.pa.us
    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.
    Required
    www.pde.state.pa.us
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