Tag: teaching children’s literature
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“Everybody Has a Reader Inside of Them”: 10 Big Ideas of a Children’s Literature Course
Yesterday, I shared the favorite reads in a Children’s Literature course I teach for preservice elementary teachers. Today, I’m focusing on their key learnings from the course. For the second part of their final exam, I ask them to present the 5 big ideas they learned about reading this semester. I think it feels like…
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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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Celebrating Children’s Lit Class #celebratelu
Visit Ruth Ayres’s blog to find out what others are celebrating. This week, I’m celebrating the reading community and #booklove I see developing in my Children’s Literature class. Tuesday’s class was really exciting to me. I looked around the room and saw that most students had brought a small stack of books with them to…
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