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Children's Literature

ISBN: 9780137778065 | 0137778066
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall, Inc.
Pub. Date: 2/1/1996

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Table of Contents
Prefacexvii
Introduction to Children's Literature
2(24)
What is Literature?
4(2)
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The Power of Literature
6(5)
Literature and the Curriculum
11(4)
Experiencing Literature
15(5)
Summary
20(1)
Thought Questions
20(1)
Enrichment Activities
20(1)
Recommended Children's Books
21(5)
Understanding Literature
26(32)
Genre in Children's Literature
28(3)
Literary Elements
31(14)
Story Grammar
45(1)
Experiencing Literature
46(1)
Classroom Activities to Enhance Understanding of Literature
47(1)
Activities
48(2)
Analyzing literary elements
48(1)
Exploring a book with young children
49(1)
Suggested activities for individual literary experiences
49(1)
Summary
50(1)
Thought Questions
50(1)
Enrichment Activities
50(2)
Box Elements of Fiction
51(1)
Recommended Children's Books
52(6)
Connecting Children and Literature: Evaluating and Selecting Books
58(24)
Evaluating Children's Literature
60(1)
Work-Centered Criteria
60(5)
Box Criteria for the Newbery Award
64(1)
Criteria for the Caldecott Medal
64(1)
Child-Centered Criteria
65(6)
Box Guidelines for Literature Selection
66(5)
Issues-Centered Criteria
71(2)
Other Evaluation Considerations
73(4)
Media-Based Literature
77(2)
Summary
79(1)
Thought Questions
79(1)
Enrichment Activities
79(1)
Recommended Children's Books
79(3)
Encouraging Children's Response to Literature
82(30)
Literary Thinking
84(3)
Box Envisioning ``The New Kid on the Block''
85(2)
Reasons For Reading
87(1)
Understanding Response
87(2)
Guiding Response
89(3)
Nurturing Response
92(3)
Box A First-Grade Literature Experience
93(2)
Classroom Activities to Enhance Engagement and Response
95(8)
Box Discussion Prompts
96(7)
Activities
103(3)
Sample book introduction for historical fiction
103(2)
Sample book introduction for an informational book
105(1)
Summary
106(1)
Thought Questions
107(1)
Enrichment Activities
107(1)
Recommended Children's Books
108(4)
Picture Books
112(30)
The Nature of Picture Books
114(1)
The History of Picture Books
115(1)
Illustrators
116(2)
Illustrations
118(4)
Types of Picture Books
122(3)
Selecting and Evaluating Picture Books
125(1)
Classroom Activities to Enhance Literary Experience
126(1)
Activities
126(9)
Reading a picture book to children
126(2)
Developing a unit study on the topic of dogs
128(1)
Exploring a single book in depth
129(1)
Inroducing art concepts
130(2)
Illustrating a text
132(1)
Identifying illustration techniques
132(1)
Creating a story map
132(1)
Reciting in unison
132(1)
Creating a finished picture book
132(1)
Teddy bear and doll week
133(1)
Stimulating interest in the arts
133(1)
Using illustrations to learn more about stories
134(1)
Exploring the use of color in picture books
134(1)
Experimenting with media
135(1)
Summary
135(1)
Thought Questions
135(1)
Enrichment Activities
135(1)
Recommended Children's Books
136(6)
Poetry
142(34)
The Nature of Poetry
144(1)
Elements of Poetry
145(4)
Types of Poetry
149(3)
Content of Poetry
152(1)
Children's Response to Poetry
153(2)
Selecting and Evaluating Poetry
155(4)
Classroom Activities to Enhance Poetic Experience
159(6)
Unit Suggestions
165(2)
Humor
165(1)
Weather
166(1)
Animals
166(1)
Summary
167(1)
Thought Questions
167(1)
Enrichment Activities
167(1)
Recommended Children's Books
168(8)
Make-Believe: Traditional Literature and Modern Fantasy
176(38)
Understanding Real and Make-believe
179(1)
Traditional Literature
179(9)
Modern Fantasy
188(8)
Classroom Activities to Enhance make-believe
196(1)
Activities
196(8)
Chanting
196(1)
Mapping
196(1)
Storytelling
197(1)
Composing Folktales
198(1)
Prediction
198(1)
Illustrating folktales
198(1)
Writing folktales
199(1)
Comparing variant folktales
200(1)
Collecting regional folktales
201(1)
Comparing written and film versions of folktales
201(1)
Dramatizing folktales
201(1)
Responding with art
201(1)
Studying cultures
201(1)
Reading journals
202(1)
Exploring fantasy through the arts
202(1)
Thematic units
202(1)
Writing fantasy
202(1)
Discussion
202(2)
Summary
204(1)
Thought Questions
204(1)
Enrichment Activities
204(1)
Recommended Children's Books
205(9)
People Then and Now: Historical Fiction and Contemporary Realistic Fiction
214(36)
Contremporary and Historical Realistic Fiction
216(2)
Issues in Realistic Fiction
218(1)
Types of Realistic Fiction
219(16)
Classroom Activities to Enhance Literary Experiences
235(2)
Unit Suggestions
237(2)
Refugees
237(1)
Wagon Wheels
238(1)
Summary
239(1)
Thought Questions
239(1)
Enrichment Activities
239(1)
Recommended Children's Books
240(10)
Nonfiction: Biography and Informational Books
250(34)
The Changing Perspective on Nonfiction
252(1)
The Value of Nonfiction
253(1)
Biography
254(5)
Informational Books
259(8)
Classroom Activities for Enhancing Nonfiction Experience
267(5)
Unit Suggestions
272(2)
What about bats? (4th grade)
272(1)
Developing higher-order thinking through reading, readiness, and response
273(1)
Studying illustrations
273(1)
Summary
274(1)
Thought Questions
274(1)
Enrichment Activities
274(1)
Recommended Children's Books
274(10)
Readers, Writers, and Illustrators: A Literary Community
284(28)
From Reading to Writing
286(1)
From Writing to Meaning
286(1)
Writing for Children
287(3)
Getting to Know Authors and Illustrators
290(7)
The Value of Studying Authors and Illustrators
297(1)
Box Walter Dean Myers: A biographical profile
298(1)
Classroom Activities to Enhance Literary Experience
298(1)
Activities
299(3)
Reading a body of work
299(1)
Studying influences on illustrators
300(1)
Studying how book illustration has changed
300(1)
Becoming an author expert
300(1)
Learning about authors
300(1)
Studying author-illustrator collaboration
300(1)
Studying author technique
300(1)
Profiling an author
301(1)
Using drama and creative play
301(1)
Celebrating authors and illustrators
302(1)
Summary
302(1)
Thought Questions
302(1)
Enrichment Activities
302(1)
Recommended Children's Books
303(9)
Oral and Silent Approaches to Literature
312(26)
Reading Aloud to Children
314(4)
Reader's Theater
318(1)
Box a Report on a Reader's Theater Performance
319(1)
Storytelling
319(6)
Box a Storytelling Experience
321(4)
Box a Storyteller's Version of ``The Wide-Mouthed Frog''
325(1)
Choral Reading
325(2)
Creative Drama
327(3)
Booktalks
330(1)
Evaluating Oral Story Experiences
331(1)
Silent Reading
331(2)
Summary
333(1)
Thought Questions
334(1)
Enrichment Activities
334(1)
Recommended Children's Books
335(3)
Emergent Literacy: Early Literary Experiences
338(24)
The Value of Early Literary Experience
340(3)
Effect of Environment on Emergent Literacy
343(6)
Box The Benefits of Literature for Young Children
344(5)
Selecting and Evaluating Literature for Young Children
349(1)
Classroom Activities to Enhance Literary Experience
350(2)
Unit Suggestion
352(2)
The five senses
352(2)
Summary
354(1)
Thought Questions
354(1)
Enrichment Activities
354(1)
Recommended Children's Books
354(8)
Real-Life Literature and Children with Challenges
362(22)
The Value of Real-Life Literature
364(1)
Selecting and Evaluating Real-Life Literature
365(9)
Classroom Activities to Enhance Real-Life Literature
374(1)
Unit Suggestion
375(1)
Adjusting for the Problems of Students with Disabilities
375(1)
Summary
376(1)
Thought Questions
376(1)
Enrichment Activities
376(1)
Recommended Children's Books
377(7)
Literature and Multicultural Understanding
384(38)
Multiculturalism in the United States
386(2)
Multicultural Education
388(2)
The Value of Multicultural Literature
390(2)
Selecting and Evaluating Multicultural Literature
392(11)
Classroom Activities to Enhance Multicultural Literature
403(1)
Activitis
404(3)
Comparing culture
404(1)
Contemporary stories
404(1)
Mapping cultures
405(1)
Cultural collages
405(1)
Family trees
405(1)
Comparing folktales
406(1)
Traditional stories
406(1)
Unit Suggestion
407(1)
Studying Native American culture
407(1)
Summary
408(1)
Thought Questions
408(1)
Enrichment Activities
408(1)
Recommended Children's Books
409(13)
Unit Studies: Literature, Response, and Learning
422(29)
Units of Study
424(3)
Developing Themes and Units
427(7)
Box Theme Topics for Units
430(2)
Box Response Experiences for Literature-Based Units
432(2)
Classroom Unit Suggestions to Enhance Literary Experience
434(1)
Unit Suggestions
435(10)
Day and night (kindergarten)
435(3)
Recycling (first or second grade)
438(2)
Counting (second, third, or fourth grade)
440(1)
Native American folktales (third grade)
440(2)
Pirates (third or fourth grade)
442(1)
Inventors (fourth or fifth grade)
443(1)
Courage (fifth grade)
444(1)
Summary
445(1)
Thought Questions
445(1)
Enrichment Activities
445(1)
Recommended Children's Books
446(5)
Appendix: Book Awards451(8)
Glossary459(6)
References465(20)
Credits485(4)
Subject Index489(4)
Index of Children's Book Authors, and Illustrators493

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