Living Literature: Using Children's Literature to Support Reading and Language Arts
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Description
This is the ideal book to help prospective teachers improve children's reading and language arts skills and instill in them a genuine and lasting love of reading. The book demonstrates numerous ways to integrate literature into the daily fabric of classroom life. Following a solid grounding in the basics every reading teacher needs, individual chapters explore genres of children's literature and teaching strategies specific to each genre. Then, the authors examine currently accepted effective practices for engaging young readers in hands-on reading in a way that fosters a love of literature that will last a lifetime. Early childhood and elementary education literature and language arts teachers.
ISBN
9780133981995
Publication Date
2005
Publisher
Pearson/Merrill/Prentice Hall
City
Upper Saddle River, NJ
Keywords
Reading, Language arts, Children, Books and reading, Children's literature, Study and teaching, Literacy
Disciplines
Reading and Language
Recommended Citation
Kasten, Wendy C.; Kristo, Janice V.; McClure, Amy A.; and Garthwait, Abigail, "Living Literature: Using Children's Literature to Support Reading and Language Arts" (2005). Faculty and Staff Monograph Publications. 96.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/fac_monographs/96