Tag: children’s literature
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How to Enjoy Reading: Slice of Life
Photo CC-By Bob I’m a relentless tinkerer in my classes and rarely start a semester the same way twice. But there is one thing I do on the first day of Children’s Literature that never changes. I show this video of third-grade teacher Colby Sharp on his first day of school: This video is absolute…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Picture Books Featuring Diverse Characters
Top Ten Tuesday is a feature hosted by The Broke and Bookish. For this week’s Top Ten list, I decided to focus on ten favorite picture books I like to share in my Children’s Literature course for pre-service elementary teachers. A beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully written story of the important Supreme Court case that legalized interracial…
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So You Want to Read Historical Fiction? Featuring Carrie Gelson and Maria Selke
This post is the second in a new “So You Want to Read” series designed for my students in Children’s Literature. My course is online this semester, which means that many of my students are learning at a distance and I can’t do what I like to do best to grow readers: show up to…
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Reading in the Wild: Sharing and Planning Reading
I finished Reading in the Wild this weekend. This is definitely a book that I think all teachers should read, though I think that teachers who have been using reading workshop in their classrooms for at least a couple of years will probably find it most valuable. It’s only after you’ve been using the workshop…
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Children’s Literature: A Reading List Under Construction
Here’s what I’m thinking about requiring in Children’s Lit next semester. Like all my course reading lists, this one is a bit long, but I’m not sure yet what I want to lose: Jacqueline Woodson, Locomotion. Sharon Creech. Love That Dog. James and Joseph Bruchac. The Girl Who Helped Thunder and Other Native American Folktales.…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 5/20/13
The kidlit edition of It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Teach Mentor Texts. Drop by to find out what others are reading or to add your blog to the list. So far, May #bookaday isn’t going so well. I got off to a great start: 11 books in 9 days. And then….…
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1931 Newbery: The Cat Who Went to Heaven
I like books about cats, and I also like short books. So I was (somewhat) eager to read Elizabeth Coatsworth’s 1931 Newbery, The Cat Who Went to Heaven. The book is about a Japanese painter and his housekeeper and the little cat they adopt. The housekeeper goes to the market with the last of their…
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Newbery Challenge, 1922-2012
I didn’t intend to make a resolution or join a challenge, but after I reread the delightful 2010 Newbery winner, When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead, I found myself thinking it would be neat to read all the Newbery winners. The prize was started in 1922, and really, how much work could it possibly…
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