Literature Map - The Tourist Map of Literature. What Makes a Children’s Book Good? As someone who writes books for children, I am privy to a never-ending debate in children’s-literature circles. (You may now be imagining old ladies in floral dresses sitting around Victorian parlors, knitting and discussing the relative merits of “Johnny Tremain” and “Little House on the Prairie”; I assure you, nowadays it is mostly tattoos and pink hair in these groups, though there are still some lovely floral dresses.) The debate is this: What makes a children’s book “good”? Now that summer vacation is over and students are submitting lists of books they have read since June, the question is particularly relevant. Does having read the novelization of the latest superhero movie “count” as having read a book? The conundrum of the “good” children’s book is best embodied by the apparently immortal—or maybe just undead—series “Goosebumps,” by R.
Maybe, but kids have weird ideas of quality. A different content criterion is psychological value. What a beautiful idea. The Rocky Unpaved Roads of Good Intentions - Reading While White by @ibizoboi. By Ibi Zoboi 7.27.16 I write for children. I have the very best of intentions. This is a dream career and one that relies on altruism, empathy, love, and most important of all, respect. The same goes for parenting children. However, I am a smother. I have the very best of intentions to keep my children safe and arm them with the necessary tools to navigate life’s challenges. My children attend a wonderfully diverse progressive school where good intentions are woven into the fabric of the school community—from their social justice curriculum to their over-the-top parent involvement. I am Haitian-American. My children’s school sounds like an ideal work environment for a young teacher of color—one that honors social justice work and educating the whole child.
My husband, Mr. This is the hierarchy of good intentions that reeks of White-Man’s-Burdenism. Make no mistake, members of marginalized groups can also wear the cape of White-Man’s-Burdenism. With the recent criticism of e.E. Using Interactive Read Alouds To Support Scientific Modeling. In science classrooms, we want to provide strategic opportunities for students to learn from text and support them as they obtain, evaluate, and communicate information. Scientific interactive read aloud lessons create a space in the day for educators to integrate the Next Generation Science Standards and English Language Arts Common Core standards, using picture books in support of the practice of scientific modeling. Science picture books can tap into your own and your students’ storytelling and personal narrative styles, while introducing ideas and evidence from beyond the classroom to consider.
There are numerous strategies you can integrate in combination with scientific read aloud books, many of which are present in the video Building Scientific Ideas With Interactive Read Alouds: Intentionally select specific pages in the book that are most relevant. Enlarge certain pages with key visuals. Engage students in talk. Make student thinking visible. Grades K-2 / Science / Modeling. Joshua Whiting (Midvale, UT)’s review of The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks. New YA Fiction in OverDrive | May 2016. Joshua Whiting’s Reading Progress for A New Hope - The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy - Apr 20, 2016 09:19PM. Explore the Cosmos With This Bonkers Interactive Model. Fun and Informative Science-Themed Graphic Novels. Middle Grade fantasy/steampunk author @JaleighJohnson will be at @KingsEnglish tonight. https:…
Joshua Whiting (Midvale, UT)’s review of The Storyteller. Joshua Whiting (Midvale, UT)’s review of Hour of the Bees. Just in time for Digital Learning Day! Digital tools and resources for reading and literacy. 12 Ways to Nurture a Love of Reading - Edutopia... A Reading List for Beyoncé’s Formation. Films and Readings | The Film Experience | Literature. The Lightning Queen | Granite Media. Joshua Whiting (Midvale, UT)’s review of The Secrets of Solace. Top 10 Multicultural Nonfiction for Youth: 2016, by Ilene Cooper | Booklist Online. The Definition Of Digital Literacy. The Definition Of Digital Literacy by Terry Heick When we think of digital literacy, we usually think of research–finding, evaluating, and properly crediting digital sources.
The “research” connotation makes sense, as it is the sheer volume of sources and media forms on the “internet” that stand out. But we are living in a world where the internet is disappearing, replaced by sheer connectivity. Are you “on the internet” when you tweet? Skim through a social reader like Flipboard? Send a text? As the internet dissolves into something more seamless–that no longer requires a clunky web browser to make itself visible–we might adjust our perspectives in parallel. Take the idea of “literacy,” for example.
Technology improves literacy only insofar as it improves a learner’s ability to identify, analyze, evaluate and create media. Literacy implies a fuller understanding and a rounder knowledge. This isn’t wrong so much as it focuses too much on technology and “the internet.” Booktalks and Book Reports in a Digital Age | Tech Tidbits. Teens at the Silver Creek High School in Longmont, CO, record a scene for The Hunger Games book trailer using a makeshift green screen at their library’s maker space. Last fall, my school deployed iPads to every student (thanks to Race to the Top funds). My district also unveiled digital books using Overdrive. My school chipped in fund-raiser money to purchase online digital magazines using Zinio for libraries. With the acquisition of all this digital content, I have been wrestling with how best to display and promote these resources to our students.
Supporting all of our readers (especially our struggling readers) is critical as we have seen a drop in our school-wide reading scores as of late. In the past, I have presented traditional booktalks by finding appropriate Lexile-leveled books, pulling these texts from my shelves and waving them wildly around while expounding on their virtues and ending my stories with cliff-hangers: “You’ll have to read it yourself to find the answer.” Forbrukslån | Lån og Kreditt.