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This resource provides teachers, librarians, parents, and others who work with children, ages 9 - 12, with an annotated bibliography of children's books that contain characters who display positive family oriented values in their relationships with others. Sample activities and lessons related to the books in the bibliography will help children in responding to the thoughts and feelings of selected characters as they strive to understand their own thoughts and actions about family oriented values. Educators and parents can initiate the activities as presented or use them as a starting point for their own lessons. ... Read more

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PERFECT FOR NEW AND SEASONED EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS AND CAREGIVERS!Art is vital to learning experiences, and this book promotes the integration of art and children’s literature.It helps improve student performance in other subject areas as well.It plays an important role in the curriculum .Often times talking with children about their ideas help to get them started on their own creative thought process.The activities in this book are directed which means that the activity is initiated by an adult, the materials are supplied and the topic is proposed.Each art lesson is combined with a children’s book.The activities in this book guide children to a disciplined and discriminating approach to their art.Being exposed to art vocabulary will make it easier to find expression.The wide range of stimuli, materials and techniques presented will permit overall flexibility in a child’s expressiveness.The primary goal is to focus on the process of creating.This book will aid in simplifying instruction and reducing the amount of preparation needed.Not only will it be extremely helpful to a new teacher, but it will also assist experienced teachers that are looking for novel approached to integrate art with other subjects. ... Read more

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These stories depicting diverse people living their lives are presented by the authors in such a way as to help engender citizenship understanding in children. The 13 chapters focus on four areas: age, gender, physical abilities and ethnicity. Annotated lists of associated books are included. ... Read more

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Child-Centered Activities for Exploring Storybooks about Friendship. ... Read more

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The activities in this book are designed specifically to support the following children's storybooks: Bobo's Dream; Clyde Monster; Bedtime for Frances; Regards to the Man in the Moon; Swimmy; There's an Alligator; Where the Wild Things Are; You Look Ridiculous. ... Read more

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A Guide for Teachers which provides Child-Centered Language Activities to support children's storybooks centering on Home and Neighborhood. ... Read more

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Over 1,100 exciting, easy-to-use content activities based on 50 outstanding children's books. It provides 15-25 activities in a variety of content areas for each of 50 well-known books, all organized into ten literature-based units. ... Read more

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Many activities for a variety of developmental stages.
As a Preschool teacher this book brought many ideas into my classroom.So far the children have responded positively to all literary activities used.Definetly a book that will be on my shelf for a long time. ... Read more

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Students connect with Americans of the past through quality works of fiction, nonfiction, biography, folktale, and legend. American history ceases to be remote and unfamiliar and becomes the story of real individuals--colonists, pioneers, Native Americans, immigrants--with diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. This book is an excellent support for a literature-based history or social studies curriculum. This book closely integrates American history and children's literature by combining the best features of an annotated bibliography of children's historical literature with the best features of a teaching guide. ... Read more

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This annotated bibliography has extensive multi-cultural topics which include clothing, travel, intergenerational relationships, food, celebrations, folktales and moral issues such as good over evil. ... Read more

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You've built a vibrant collection of children s literature, now put those resources to work and put young readers on the path to a lifelong love of reading. A core reference for school and public libraries and a terrific resource for educators, parents, students, and book reviewers of YA and youth titles, this dictionary provides child-friendly definitions of 325 terms and gives vivid examples for each from contemporary and classic literature. Definitions also include suggested activities to aid student learning.Whether you are a librarian helping a student find a definition of archetype, a teacher looking for classroom activities that will help you teach parallel stories, or a student who needs a traightforward example of an acrostic or a haiku, the answers, ideas, and inspiration are here. ... Read more

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The primary purpose of phonological awareness training is to anchor students in the sound system of English to help prepare them to map the graphemic system onto a phonological system, a necessary step for successful reading acquisition. ASHA's (2001) guidelines suggest that good literacy instruction should be outcome-oriented, comprehensive, balanced, contextualized, age-appropriate, recursive, direct, explicit, intense, scaffolded, informative, and corrective. The Sourcebook series embodies these elements and is written for use with 3rd to 5th grade students. The third volume in the respected, popular Sourcebook of Phonological Awareness Activities series, this book provides activities for use with popular 3rd to 5th grade books such as Charlotte's Web, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Henry Huggins, Sarah Plain and Tall, and The Indian in the Cupboard. ... Read more