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Essentials of Children's Literature
Essentials of Children's Literature is a comprehensive, yet concise, compendium of children's literature. It invites pre-service teachers and librarians to experience the joy of reading, selecting and sharing excellent children's books with students. Clear and concise narrative is paired with book lists, examples, figures and tables. This indispensable resource will help you gain the knowledge you need about literature and engaging children with literature, freeing up time to actively read the books yourself.
The 10th Edition includes important developments, recent outstanding children's titles, new creators of children's books and current issues. A new chapter on learning about diversity in literature includes tools to examine books through a multicultural lens.
The 10th Edition includes important developments, recent outstanding children's titles, new creators of children's books and current issues. A new chapter on learning about diversity in literature includes tools to examine books through a multicultural lens.
320 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 7, 2022
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December 12, 2024
"Teachers using a literature-based approach to reading structure a classroom environment to immerse children in good literature"
As a librarian and a dyslexic, this sounds like taking a bunch of pre-swimming children and pushing them into the deep end of the pool. Water immersion is not the same as evidence-based swimming instruction. The results are tragic. About 5-10% of children with fine-detail, phonetic processing brains (who become librarians and teachers and repeat the process) have a magical time in the pool. However, the majority of children slowly drown, and the dyslexic kids are already on the bottom of the pool turning blue.
The national literacy crises in the US has many causes, but a key contributor is the use of ineffective and insufficient literacy methods in schools and libraries.
As a librarian and a dyslexic, this sounds like taking a bunch of pre-swimming children and pushing them into the deep end of the pool. Water immersion is not the same as evidence-based swimming instruction. The results are tragic. About 5-10% of children with fine-detail, phonetic processing brains (who become librarians and teachers and repeat the process) have a magical time in the pool. However, the majority of children slowly drown, and the dyslexic kids are already on the bottom of the pool turning blue.
The national literacy crises in the US has many causes, but a key contributor is the use of ineffective and insufficient literacy methods in schools and libraries.
Displaying 1 of 1 review