EDUC 328 A - CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

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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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Web Quest

For more models view the main Web Quest site: http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html
Title Description File type
Web Quest Model
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Exploring WebQuests Worksheet
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WebQuest Template
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WebQuest Rubric
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Week 15

Book Talks/Story Sharing

Electronic Book Reviews

Title Description File type
Barnes Book Review Model
These are the 7 genre catagories that you will organize your electronic book file under.
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Book Awards by first letter of Title
 

Chronicle Books. Online. http://www.chronbooks.com/kids/awards

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Database Submission Entries 21-30
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Database submission for book reviews 11-20
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Database Submission Entries 30-42
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Week 3

Planning the Literature Program
Title Description File type
Planning the Literature Program-Ch 13 ppt
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Serafini and Maniac Magee
These are my dialogue notes on the article. This is not to be used as a model for the assignment . In my response I went outside the text and described what the questioning strategies would be like using each of the approaches that Serafini (2003) described.
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Week 4- History of Children's Literature

Title Description File type
History of child lit Presentationsrubric.doc
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Timeline form
Copy and paste this document into your partner presentation as an introductory overview.
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Genre Distinctions ppt.
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History Presentations Sign up
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Weeks 5-6 History of Children's Literature Presentations

These chronological and comprehensive review is composed of all the history of children's literature powerpoint presentations presented during week 5 of the class.
Title Description File type
Comprehensive Review of Slides
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Story Sharing Strategies
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Week 7

Picture Books- Chapter 5
 
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Guide to illustrations
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Week 8

Week 9

Traditional Literature - chapter 6
Title Description File type
Chapter 6- Traditional Literature ppt.

1.  Parsons (2004, p. 136) said, “fairy tales are powerful cultural agents that tell us how to be.”  Who is the literary character or biographer from either fiction or non-fiction that “tells you how to be?”

 

2.  From reading your dialogue responses, it is clear that some of you favor censorship in regard to distasteful, violent fairy tales. Is censorship a viable option in today’s schools in order to protect children from gender stereotypes embedded in children’s literature texts?  How does your Christian world view impact your stance in the selection of texts that you will promote and texts that you will discourage or ignore in your classroom?

 

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Week 10

Modern Fantasy-  Chapter 7

Week 11

Historical Fiction- chapter 10

Week 12

Poetry
Title Description File type
Chapter 8 Poetry ppt.
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A poem by Dr. Scheffler
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Assignments- Templates and Rubrics

Week 13

Chapter 9 Contemporary Realistic Fiction

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.
 
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.
 
Random House Books
Find out the latest newly released books and get classroom ideas for your electronic book review file.
Book review website
The book reviews on this website are written by young adults.
Book Review website
These book reviews are submitted by professionals.
Book Review Website
These book reviews were submitted by children.
Snopes.com

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.