Thinking and Learning Through Children's Literature by Martinez, Miriam G.

Thinking and Learning Through Children's Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781475821512)

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Format: Paperback
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Thinking and Learning Through Children's Literature by Martinez, Miriam G.

Thinking and Learning Through Children's Literature

$53.00
Thinking and Learning Through Children's Literature by Martinez, Miriam G.

Thinking and Learning Through Children's Literature

$53.00
Format: Paperback
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Much of teachers' attention these days is focused on having students read closely to ferret out the author's intended meaning and the devices used to convey that meaning. But we cannot forget to guide students to have moving engagements with literature, because they need to make strong personal connections to books of merit if they are to become the next generation of readers: literate people with awareness of and concern for the diversity of human beings around them and in different times and places. Fortunately, guiding both students' personal engagement with literature and their close reading to appreciate the author's message and craft are not incompatible goals. This book enthusiastically and intelligently addresses both imperatives, first surveying what is gained when students are immersed in literature; then celebrating and explicating the main features of literature students need to understand to broaden their tastes and deepen their engagement, at the same time they meet external standards; then presenting a host of active methods for exploring all major genres of children's books; and finally presenting suggestions for interdisciplinary teaching units grounded in literature. Created by noted leaders in the fields of children's literature and literacy, the book is enlivened by recurring features such as suggested reading lists, issues for discussion, links to technology, and annotations of exemplary books.

Author: Miriam G. Martinez, Junko Yokota, Charles Temple
ISBN-10: 1475821514
ISBN-13: 9781475821512
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 04/18/2017
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 08/01/2017
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2017
By Miriam G. Martinez
By Miriam G. Martinez
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Miriam G. Martinez teaches reading and children's literature courses at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is actively involved in the Children's Literature Assembly, the National Council of Teachers of English, the International Literacy Association, and the Literacy Research Association. Her research and publications have focused on the nature of children's literary meaning-making, children's responses to literature, and their understanding of various literary genres and formats. She also conducts content analyses of children's books.

Junko Yokota directs the Center for Teaching through Children's Books and is a professor emeritus of National Louis University in Chicago. Her research focuses on visual narratives in picture books, multicultural and international literature, digital storytelling, and literacy instruction through quality literature. She has held research fellowships at the International Youth Library in Munich, the Prussian Heritage Foundation at the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, and a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Wroclaw in Poland. She has served on numerous awards committees such as the Caldecott, Newbery, and Batchelder; and she has served on international juries such as Bologna, Nami, and the Hans Christian Andersen. She lives in Evanston, Illinois with her husband William Teale.

Charles Temple teaches children's literature, storytelling, writing for children, and international education at Hobart & William Smith Colleges in upstate New York. He is active in the International Literacy Association, the National Storytelling Network, the Society of Children's BOOKWRITERS and Illustrators, and the Comparative and International Education Society. Besides works for children, he has co-authored many books in the literacy and children's literature fields. He promotes children's book development and teaching for critical thinking in many countries AROUND THE WORLD, currently in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania. HE lives with his wife Codruta Temple in Geneva, New York. They have five children, two grandchildren, and a spirited Springer Spaniel named Jackie.

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