Children's Literature Professional Educator Resources
Books
Benedict, Susan & Lenore Carlisle. (1992). Beyond Words: Picture Books for Older Readers and Writers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Brewton, John E. et al. (Compilers). Index to Poetry for Children and Young People. 1982-1987. New York, NY: Wilson 1987.
Briggs, Katherine M. Encyclopedia of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Brownies, Boggies, and other Supernatural Creatures. New York, NY: Pantheon, 1978. CLASSIC
Children's Books in Print. New York, NY: Bowker, 1969- continually updates.
Commire, Anne (Ed). Something about the Author: Facts and Pictures about Contemporary Authors and iIlustrators of Books for Young People. Volumes 1-167... Detroit; Gale, 2005. In most libraries.
Gallas, Karen (2003.) Imagination and Literacy: A Teacher's Search for the Heart of Learning. New York: Teachers College Press. Excellent discussion on the development of imagination and the role it plays in literacy, including the struggle many students have in learning to read. The author's ideas of literacy include examples and applications to all subjects as well as textual literacy.
Goodman, Steven. (2003). Teaching Youth Media: A Critical Guide to Literacy, Video Production, and Social Change. More for middle school and above. It is a novel approach of using video to teach literacy. It has examples of inner city youth involved in the experiences described.
Hallett, Martin and Barbara Karasek. (2009). Folk & Fairy Tales. fourth edition Broadview Press, Buffalo, NY. ISBN 978 1 55111 898 7.
Kingman, Lee et al. (Eds). Illustrators of Children's Books: 1967-1976, volume 4. Boston The Horn Book, 1978.
Lehr, Susan. (1995). Battling Dragons: Issues and Controversy in Children's Literature. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Lesnik-Oberstein, Karin. (1994). Children’s Literature: Criticism and the Fictional Child. New York, NY: Oxford Press
Lima, Carolyn W. A to zoo: Subject access to children's picture books, second edition. New York: Bowker, 2010.
Lukens, Rebecca. A Critical Handbook of Children's Literature, 8th edition. Oxford, Ohio: Scott Foresman and Company. 2006.
O"Reilley, Mary Rose. (1993). The Peaceable Classroom. ISBN 0-86709-328-5 Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers.
Piazza, Carolyn L. (1999). Multiple Forms of Literacy: Teaching Literacy and the Arts. Columbus, Ohio: Merrill. Defines literacy to include music, art, dance... If you are looking to expand literacy beyond the traditional text, then this would be a very good choice.
Purves, Alan C, and Dianne L, Monson. (1984). Experiencing Children's Literature. Glenview, Ill: Scott Foresman and Company.
Trelease, Jim. (2006 6th. edition). The Read Aloud Handbook.
Articles
One Reading Specialist's Response to High-Stakes Testing Pressures. The Reading Teacher, v60 n2 p158–167. October 2006. Very good article supporting a literature based program. Available - EBSCO host.
Professional Identity of a Reading Teacher: Responding to High-Stakes Testing Pressures. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, v14 n3 p239-252 Jun 2008- Eric - EJ811899. Marsha, English Language Learners (ELL) faced with tensions between her professional beliefs, knowledge about effective reading instruction, and district testing pressures. This article shows the complexities and contextual tensions through an ethnographic study. Struggled of commitment to help students pass the test and to stay true to her own professional identity. Suggests testing pressures affect teachers' instruction and responsiveness to students' learning needs, compromise a teacher's professional identity, and can influence their responsibility and ethical sense of what they should do for students and who they need to be as teachers.
Electronic - research - sites and articles
Jeff Wilhelm, University of Maine, Orono 2000 Literacy by Design: Why Is All This Technology So Important? Voices from the Middle, A Publication of the National Council of Teachers of English, Volume 7 Number 3, March 2000, pp. 4-14. Discusses how technology might be an integral part of schooling. What is hypermedia, and how production can be a critical part of an educational process. Includes examples of the author's work with students and electronic notes.
ETS testing of literacy Review how ETS makes decisions on national testing for literacy and its essential elements. Aso - Jacqueline Jones. Early Literacy Assessment Systems: Essential Elements of literacy - Policy statement for ETS testing of literacy
Literacy Research Web site with links to literacy related research Educational Cyber Playground -
Jessica C. Baca (2002). Literacy through Creativity for Social Empowerment: A Critical Media Literacy Unit Grounded in the Work of Paulo Friere Teen magazine, Paulo Friere, literacy, and planning activities for school WHAT? Must read creativity rubric.
Donna E. Alvermann 2001 Effective Literacy Instruction for Adolescents Updated Version October 30, 2001 Executive Summary and Paper Commissioned by the National Reading Conference: Title says it all.
David O'Brien At-Risk Adolescents: Redefining Competence Through the Multiliteracies of Intermediality, Visual Arts, and Representation. Great page use of multimedia for an article. The article also has great information for using multiliteracies with students successfully.
Jonathan Dube_Publisher, CyberJournalist.net. Online Storytelling Forms Discusses how to tell stories online and different forms being used by major online news organizations. The first list to document online storytelling forms.
Douglas Kellner, U.C.L.A 200? Critical Perspectives on Visual Imagery in Media and Cyberculture. Examine Madonna, MTV Excellent article
Jeanne Z. Lawrence. American Children s Literature: A Bibliotheraputic Approach - Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute artile
Mei-Yu. Supporting Early Literacy Development in Family Child Care Settings. ERIC Identifier: ED477606: 2003-11-12 - Information for family child care providers on children's early literacy development. A definition and the characteristics of family child care are discussed along with research-based strategies and recommendations that help support early literacy development for children in family child care settings.
John Seely Brown. Learning, working & playing in the digital age: Creating learning ecologies. and Additional work by John Seely Brown - many relevant ideas ...
Literacy Research Site with links to literacy related research
Jessica C. Baca. Literacy through Creativity for Social Empowerment: A Critical Media Literacy Unit Grounded in the Work of Paulo Friere. Teen magazine, Paulo Friere, literacy, and planning activities for school… Must see…
Yong Zhao, Carol Sue Englert, Jing Chen, Su Chin Jones, and Richard Ferdig. TELE-Web: Developing a Web-Based Literacy Learning Environment. Michigan State University. The curriculum of the Early Literacy Project (ELP) (Englert, Raphael, & Mariage, 1994), designed for use in primary-grade classrooms for students with learning disabilities, was intended to build literacy skills and impart learning-to-learn strategies. The curricular activities involved multiple forms of oral and written literacy, including (a) choral reading and partner reading of various texts; (b) summarizing and mapping expository and narrative stories that were part of thematic units; (c) participating in learning-to-learn processes as part of a report-writing process (e.g., brainstorming ideas, organizing and mapping ideas, reading multiple sources and adding information to their maps, writing and editing their reports, and revising them for publication); (d) sharing books or reports they had written in Sharing Chair; (e) journal writing; and (f) story response and book discussions related to the expository and narrative texts that composed the thematic units (Englert & Mariage, 1996; Englert et al., 1995; Englert, Mariage, Garmon, & Tarrant, 1998).
Donna E. Alvermann. Effective Literacy Instruction for Adolescents. Updated Version October 30, 2001. Executive Summary and Paper Commissioned by the National Reading Conference
University of GeorgiaDavid O’Brien. “At-Risk” Adolescents: Redefining Competence Through the Multiliteracies of Intermediality, Visual Arts, and Representation. Great page use of multimedia for an article. The article also has great information for using multiliteracies with students successfully.
Jonathan Dube Publisher, CyberJournalist.net. Online Storytelling Forms. Discusses how to tell stories online and different forms being used by major online news organizations. The first list to document online storytelling forms.
Writing in the Early Grades, K–2. NCET National Council of English Teachers. What We Know About Writing, Grades K–2. Excellent article on writing with many ideas to think about and links to documents for additional reading and things to try. Grades 3-5
Douglas Kellner. Critical Perspectives on Visual Imagery in Media and Cyberculture. U.C.L.A. Examine Madonna, MTV… Excellent article.
Visual Literacy White Paper - Adobe.
Teaching with Ted - videos for Visual Literacy.
Donna E. Alvermann. Multiliteracies and Self-Questioning in the Service of Science Learning. University of Georgia. Can multimedia and technology help students ask better questions and increase science learning/ literacy?
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