Resources for Children’s Literature
I. Websites/ online sources for teaching or reading Children’s Literature.
1. “Teacher’s top 100 books for children”. http://www.nea.org/. National Education Association. This an acceptable website because the source is a legitimate and reliable source. You can find factual information on this website, and it also has an amazing list of great books to read to children and great authors as well, and another thing to look at is the list is not just the biased opinions of the website editors and writers, it is an actual survey of parents and teachers who have experience with reading these books to children.
2. “Slide Share.” http://www.slideshare.net/. Creator of the slide is Johan Koren, who is a professor at Murray State University. Slide share is an interactive website where you can view hundreds of slides that professors and educators upload from all over the world. These are people with experience uploading these presentations, so I find it to be a trustworthy sight. The particular slide that I viewed was describing how to teach children’s literature. It also gave insightful tips on how children understand literature and how to better relate to them. It gives some good examples of books and a lot of strategies for doing so. It also gives you a transcript at the bottom so you can print out valuable information and utilize it in your own classroom.
3. “Learning from Children Reading Books: Transactional Theory and the teaching of Literacture.. http://www.childrensliteratureassembly.org/. The author is this article is Lee Galda. This article is trustworthy because it is written by a women with years of research and real life experience, who received her P.H.D in the Literature/Education area of studies. She has been doing research of the Transactional Theory and how it relates to teaching Literature, and how it can benefit students learning as well. She also discusses the way that students learn Literature and how to teach it as well. I find this scholarly article useful because it is full of insightful tips on both reading and teaching of Literature, along with a lot of research and analysis on it as well.
4. Using Children’s Literature to Teach Reading. http://www.ernweb.com/. Educational Research Newsletters and Webinars. This is a group of Educational writers that post Newsletters and Webinars to help teachers in a variety of subjects from Mathematics to Literature. The Newsletter states tips for teaching ESL students and also discusses elements of Literature based reading instruction and more.
5. The Value of Teaching Children’s Literature. http://www.education.com/.By N.A Anderson-Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall.
This is a website that has a variety of resources for teachers such as assignments, worksheets, articles and more. It also helps with everything from reading the alphabet, to teaching phonics and sounds, also helps to teach reading genres. This site helps teachers with many subjects, and it also states the importance of teaching children’s Literature. It helps with everything from comprehending Literature and the building blocks for reading. I also find all of techniques that it states very useful.
II. Books and Reading for Children
1. “Teaching Conflict Resolution through Children’s Literature.” William J. Kreidler, this book is a useful. Published in 1994 with 112 pages total. I feel like this book is very useful because it teaches kids about conflicts in the world through the use of a book, and that can be significant in a classroom. There is also one part of the book where it talks about a conflict ladder which can also be used to teach children about dramatic structure. So by reading this book children are getting the chance to practice reading and learning life skills as well.
2. “Teaching Reading to Every Child”. Diane Lapp, James Flood, Cynthia H. Brock, Douglas Fisher Routledge. Published June 17, 2013 with 472 pages. This has many useful because it teaches outstanding methods for teaching Literature that has been tested by scientific methods and research. These people have been studying the way that children learn to read and comprehend Literature and has wrapped it in a nice little bow so to speak for us to read and begin to comprehend ourselves.
3. “The Child as Critic.” Gleena Davis Sloan. Published on January 1, 2013 with 238 pages. This text helps us to understand Literature from the Students Point of view, and it includes many literary terms, and also helps us to understand children’s Literature better ourselves as well. This book has been used to help begin many programs and has been used by many educators as well.
III. Characteristics of a reliable source
1. The Web address could be a huge give away, often times you want to try and stick with something with “edu” and not “.com” and because often times “edu” is an academic/scholarly website with some research behind it not just anyone writing or making the website.
2. Who wrote it? What kind of credibility does the writer/speaker have? It is often helpful to look up a biography on the author of the source to see what kind of credibility they have and do they have the expertise to speak on the subject?
3. Look at the dates. Dates can be important to consider. When was the source published or written? Has the information changed or updated over the years?
4. Be aware of biased opinions in an article, too much opinion and not enough fact never makes to be a good source.
5. What kind of source is it? Is it a primary source? A secondary? Or even a tertiary source? Often time primary sources are the best way to go but you want to make sure that the information does not evolve as the information is rewritten.
- When one is looking for a source they should look for a reliable source that is factual and has research behind it. This way you can be sure that what is being read is true and when you use it in your own works what you are stating is true as well. I mostly used google for this assignment but I looked at the credibility of each and every source.
My Reflection: This assignment helped me to realize the importance of the validity of sources. When Teaching it is significant to understand that importance and to make sure that the source and the information that you are using to teach your students is valid information.
I. Websites/ online sources for teaching or reading Children’s Literature.
1. “Teacher’s top 100 books for children”. http://www.nea.org/. National Education Association. This an acceptable website because the source is a legitimate and reliable source. You can find factual information on this website, and it also has an amazing list of great books to read to children and great authors as well, and another thing to look at is the list is not just the biased opinions of the website editors and writers, it is an actual survey of parents and teachers who have experience with reading these books to children.
2. “Slide Share.” http://www.slideshare.net/. Creator of the slide is Johan Koren, who is a professor at Murray State University. Slide share is an interactive website where you can view hundreds of slides that professors and educators upload from all over the world. These are people with experience uploading these presentations, so I find it to be a trustworthy sight. The particular slide that I viewed was describing how to teach children’s literature. It also gave insightful tips on how children understand literature and how to better relate to them. It gives some good examples of books and a lot of strategies for doing so. It also gives you a transcript at the bottom so you can print out valuable information and utilize it in your own classroom.
3. “Learning from Children Reading Books: Transactional Theory and the teaching of Literacture.. http://www.childrensliteratureassembly.org/. The author is this article is Lee Galda. This article is trustworthy because it is written by a women with years of research and real life experience, who received her P.H.D in the Literature/Education area of studies. She has been doing research of the Transactional Theory and how it relates to teaching Literature, and how it can benefit students learning as well. She also discusses the way that students learn Literature and how to teach it as well. I find this scholarly article useful because it is full of insightful tips on both reading and teaching of Literature, along with a lot of research and analysis on it as well.
4. Using Children’s Literature to Teach Reading. http://www.ernweb.com/. Educational Research Newsletters and Webinars. This is a group of Educational writers that post Newsletters and Webinars to help teachers in a variety of subjects from Mathematics to Literature. The Newsletter states tips for teaching ESL students and also discusses elements of Literature based reading instruction and more.
5. The Value of Teaching Children’s Literature. http://www.education.com/.By N.A Anderson-Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall.
This is a website that has a variety of resources for teachers such as assignments, worksheets, articles and more. It also helps with everything from reading the alphabet, to teaching phonics and sounds, also helps to teach reading genres. This site helps teachers with many subjects, and it also states the importance of teaching children’s Literature. It helps with everything from comprehending Literature and the building blocks for reading. I also find all of techniques that it states very useful.
II. Books and Reading for Children
1. “Teaching Conflict Resolution through Children’s Literature.” William J. Kreidler, this book is a useful. Published in 1994 with 112 pages total. I feel like this book is very useful because it teaches kids about conflicts in the world through the use of a book, and that can be significant in a classroom. There is also one part of the book where it talks about a conflict ladder which can also be used to teach children about dramatic structure. So by reading this book children are getting the chance to practice reading and learning life skills as well.
2. “Teaching Reading to Every Child”. Diane Lapp, James Flood, Cynthia H. Brock, Douglas Fisher Routledge. Published June 17, 2013 with 472 pages. This has many useful because it teaches outstanding methods for teaching Literature that has been tested by scientific methods and research. These people have been studying the way that children learn to read and comprehend Literature and has wrapped it in a nice little bow so to speak for us to read and begin to comprehend ourselves.
3. “The Child as Critic.” Gleena Davis Sloan. Published on January 1, 2013 with 238 pages. This text helps us to understand Literature from the Students Point of view, and it includes many literary terms, and also helps us to understand children’s Literature better ourselves as well. This book has been used to help begin many programs and has been used by many educators as well.
III. Characteristics of a reliable source
1. The Web address could be a huge give away, often times you want to try and stick with something with “edu” and not “.com” and because often times “edu” is an academic/scholarly website with some research behind it not just anyone writing or making the website.
2. Who wrote it? What kind of credibility does the writer/speaker have? It is often helpful to look up a biography on the author of the source to see what kind of credibility they have and do they have the expertise to speak on the subject?
3. Look at the dates. Dates can be important to consider. When was the source published or written? Has the information changed or updated over the years?
4. Be aware of biased opinions in an article, too much opinion and not enough fact never makes to be a good source.
5. What kind of source is it? Is it a primary source? A secondary? Or even a tertiary source? Often time primary sources are the best way to go but you want to make sure that the information does not evolve as the information is rewritten.
- When one is looking for a source they should look for a reliable source that is factual and has research behind it. This way you can be sure that what is being read is true and when you use it in your own works what you are stating is true as well. I mostly used google for this assignment but I looked at the credibility of each and every source.
My Reflection: This assignment helped me to realize the importance of the validity of sources. When Teaching it is significant to understand that importance and to make sure that the source and the information that you are using to teach your students is valid information.