Teacher Tools
Professional development
Classes -
- Undergraduate literature EDU 216
- Graduate literature EDU 600
- Undergraduate intermediate language arts EDU 341
Literature Professional Resources - articles, essays, models
- Rethinking Whole Language Kappan article
- Redefining Literature article
- Second language learners, ELL, ESL, and more index
- Literacy as multimedia literacy - model - see media below
- Kinds of responses to literature and motivational model - see below - Children's Development
- Essay on definitions of children's literature
- Children's literature references and resources
Facilitating learning
- Overview of different responses to literature | model |
Children's development
How children develop from birth to adolescence related to their responses to literature. For general information on child development use the navigation buttons | Pedagogy | Development |
- Developmental responses of children and adolescent to literature
- Development of quality responses to literature - scoring guide
Instruction
- Instructional suggestions and guidelines - for before - during - after reading, viewing, and listening to literature
- Story element - Characterization questions- to ask at anytime
- Book Conference questions
- Story element - questions for all kinds of fiction
Teacher Reflection Ideas -
- Literatue reflection suggestions - for Last Basselope Reflection
- Wrriting reflection suggestions
Curriculum development and planning
Literature curriculum - parts and pieces
Book Selections, Challenges, and Censorship
Introductory information - what's literature, beliefs, model...
- Definitions of children's literature and literacy
- Personal definition of quality literature
- Characteristics of children's literature
- Benefits from literature
- Literature and literacy model
- The Reader, viewer, listener - included or inferred - research proposal
- See also media literacy below
- Visual literacy
- Beliefs or assumptions for literature
- Beliefs about children's literature and literacy
- Principled procedures
- Literature curriculum goals K-12
- Possible goals by grade level
- Sample liiterature objectives, concepts, and outcomes
- List of process skills related to literature and text
- Caring, bibliotheraphy?, and literature
Assessment
Assessment and evaluation tool
Activities
Actvities or tasks for students to participate in to facilitate their literacy. Using information about genre and story elements is critical for this to be achieved.
- General description of kinds of activities
- 173 activities for students to choose
- A picture book activity to get below the text and pictures - book illustrations, critique
- Colors and their possible meanings across cultures
- Folktale activity tool box
- Author of the Week page
- Literature Log sample page and starters
- Books I've read chart
- How to make your own cloth covered book
- Two Stories comparison chart 1 setting, characters, plot, ending, primary - intermediate
- Two Stories comparison chart 2 all elements middle school
- Sample data bases - | Outline in HTML | MicroSoft Word - click to download
Pre Reading Activities - may be continued during and post
While Reading Activities
- Take notes on a map - Hobbit | Bendy's Quest |
Post Reading Activities
- Story Chart elements and favorite... intermediate grades
- Book Rating page holistic rating intermediate grades
- Book Rating Sheet 10 points summative rating middle school
- Main idea chart
- Male or female bias survey
- Retelling sheet
- How was your Trip? can use to compare fairy tails
- Wanted Poster
- Kinds of activities to promote literature transactions
- Activities for story elements
- Community and family involvement activities
- Quizzes
Book related activities
Media Literacy
- Graphic showing Literacy as Communication through MultiMedia
- Symbols in media - why more multiMedia education is needed
- Overview - Rationale - Introductory information on MultiMedia as curriculum
- Sample Library-Media Center Literacy Program
- Media literacy in Australia report - If Australia teaches media and we don't, how bad are our students?
Multimedia as communicative events related to - Multiple forms of literacy: Teaching literacy and the arts. Piazza, Carolyn L. (1999).
- Resources by chapters and possible discussion questions
- Blank chart - Communicative elements - Piazza
- Rationale and Explanation for Piazza's chart - Communicative Elements
- Multidimensional Multi Forms of Literacy Model Sample Plan for - The Mailbox and painting School House by Winslow Homer
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