With the demand on teachers to meet and exceed the content-area standards in their school districts, they need more opportunities to try new classroom techniques. Also, with the steady decline of reading ability in our youth, they need more opportunity to read in and out of school. This book aids both these issues by discussing in detail how childrenÕs trade books can be used to achieve national standards in the content areas (math, science, and social studies). KEY TOPICS: The authors begin with a concise discussion of the national standards and explain how they translate into usable teaching methods. This book is a valuable guide not only to understanding the standards, but to finding practical, innovative ways of achieving them through the use of informational books. Current and future teachers. A Longwood Professional Book.

Connecting Informational Children's Books with Content Area Learning

Education & Teaching

Freeman, Evelyn B.

Person, Diane Goetz

Schools & Teaching

Pearson

KEY BENEFT: This book presents a comprehensive discussion of international children's books and their use in K-8 classrooms. KEY TOPICS Global Perspectives in Children's Literature reviews the status of children's literature around the world and elaborates on the benefits of international children's literature for children's development and the curriculum. The book presents various genres such as picture books, fiction, informational books, and poetry. Issues in the field and criteria for selecting books to be used in the classroom are provided, as well as a discussion of history and contemporary trends worldwide. Specific ways to share international books are also presented, as they relate to theme studies, specific content areas, visual literacy, and language arts. Useful for anyone interested in global education, specifically that of Children's Literature.

Global Perspectives in Children's Literature

Lehman, Barbara A.

Teen & Young Adult

Children's literature is ubiquitous in preschool and elementary school classrooms and in school libraries. Teachers use children's literature for pedagogical purposes and to excite children's imaginations and expose them to "worlds" beyond their own experience. Over the past thirty years, teachers have increasingly used children's literature to expose their students to cultural, racial, and religious diversity as well as introducing their students to issues of social justice and social equity. Unfortunately, Jewish children's literature is often absent in the preschool and elementary school classroom. When it is present, it is almost exclusively Holocaust literature. The result is that Jewish people are nearly invisible in the children's literature found in preschool and elementary school classrooms and when it is available, it presents a "picture" to children of Jews as victims. The purpose of our book is to address this problematic situation and provide teachers with guidance in the use of Jewish children's literature in the preschool and elementary school classroom. There is a broad range of authentic, high quality Jewish children's literature that could be used by preschool and elementary school teachers regardless of how many Jewish children they have in their class. It is as important for teachers with no Jewish children in their classroom as it is for teachers with some or many Jewish children in the class to expose all of their students to Jewish children's literature. Our book introduces preschool and elementary teachers to a broad range of high-quality children's literature books and stories and provides them with background information so that they can use Jewish children's literature thoughtfully with their students.

Enduring Questions: Using Jewish Children’s Literature in Classrooms

Children's Books

Bloome, David

Horowitz, Rosemary

Katz The Ohio State University, Laurie

Education & Reference

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Children’s literature is ubiquitous in preschool and elementary school classrooms and in school libraries. Teachers use children’s literature for pedagogical purposes and to excite children’s imaginations and expose them to “worlds” beyond their own experience. Over the past thirty years, teachers have increasingly used children’s literature to expose their students to cultural, racial, and religious diversity as well as introducing their students to issues of social justice and social equity. Unfortunately, Jewish children’s literature is often absent in the preschool and elementary school classroom. When it is present, it is almost exclusively Holocaust literature. The result is that Jewish people are nearly invisible in the children’s literature found in preschool and elementary school classrooms and when it is available, it presents a “picture” to children of Jews as victims. The purpose of our book is to address this problematic situation and provide teachers with guidance in the use of Jewish children’s literature in the preschool and elementary school classroom. 
There is a broad range of authentic, high quality Jewish children’s literature that could be used by preschool and elementary school teachers regardless of how many Jewish children they have in their class. It is as important for teachers with no Jewish children in their classroom as it is for teachers with some or many Jewish children in the class to expose all of their students to Jewish children’s literature. Our book introduces preschool and elementary teachers to a broad range of high-quality children’s literature books and stories and provides them with background information so that they can use Jewish children’s literature thoughtfully with their students.

Enduring Questions

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