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Literature for Young Children, 5/E
Joan I. Glazer, retired, Rhode Island College
Cyndi Giorgis, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

ISBN-10: 0131139274
ISBN-13: 9780131139275

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 360 pp
Status: Temporarily out of stock

This item has been replaced by Literature for Young Children: Supporting Emergent Literacy, Ages 0-8, 6/E .

For courses in Children's Literature, Literature Methods, and Literature in Early Childhood.

Designed to support both preservice and inservice teachers by helping them recognize high-quality and developmentally appropriate children's books to share with PreK - 3 children, the major goal of this text is to show how to use children's literature to help develop children's language skills and their intellectual capacity, encourage healthy social and moral development, and nurture children's creativity. Coverage encompasses discussions of both contemporary and classic literature for young children, providing teachers, parents, and child-care professionals opportunities to talk about reading while engaging children in experiences with good books. Teachers and day-care professionals will find myriad practical strategies, extensive book lists, and relevant websites valuable for PreK - 3 curriculum planning.

  • NEW - Extensive coverage of "themed" literature teaching–Including a detailed implementation plan for a yearlong theme, along with the literature to support it.

    • Introduces this exciting teaching concept through reference to solid research and already-proven techniques–gives students the background information they need to embrace "themes" as instructionally significant.

  • NEW - High-quality examples of current and classic books that support the message of each developmental chapter–Highlighted in featured boxes within each chapter.

    • Offers ready-made resource lists for advancing children's development through engaging books–serves as a "shopping list" for prospective teachers to develop their personal literature lists.

  • NEW - Inclusion of a wide variety of web sites relevant to children's literature–Ranging from author, illustrator, and publisher sites to sites administered by professional educational organizations.

    • Familiarizes students with the wealth of information available on the World Wide Web–points them to sites with reliable content and makes it easy to extend their knowledge beyond the text's coverage.

  • Individual chapters covering strategies for using literature to support children's development–Addressing language, intellectual, personality, social/moral, and aesthetic/creative development.

    • Enhance students' understanding of how children's growth in all areas dovetails with the development of language skills–strengthen readers' own understanding of developmental stages.

  • Introductory chapters on the range of literature available for children–Including a practical framework for evaluating the quality of literature and ideas for sharing literature with young learners.

    • Familiarizes readers with what's available for children to read–provides guidelines and criteria for evaluating and selecting books that will encourage children's literacy development.

  • Coverage of standards of national professional organizations–Aligning them to local and state standards for literacy education

    • Ensures students understand the professional criteria of their chosen field–prepares them for the demands and expectations of parents, principals, and school boards.

  • A final synthesizing chapter–Using a single book for preschoolers and one for primary-age children.

    • Demonstrates the use of all of the text's concepts through a single example volume–gives students a genuine feel for how what they're learning will translate into what they will teach.

  • An easy-to-use table linking text topics–Teaming developmental goals and practical teaching strategies with recommended literature.

    • Creates a handy rubric of text-advocated concepts regarding the purpose of using literature with young learners–serves as both a study aid for preservice teachers and a reference for organizing classrooms.

  • Extensive coverage of "themed" literature teaching–Including a detailed implementation plan for a yearlong theme, along with the literature to support it.

    • Introduces this exciting teaching concept through reference to solid research and already-proven techniques–gives students the background information they need to embrace "themes" as instructionally significant.

  • High quality examples of current and classis books that support the message of each developmental chapter–Highlighted in featured boxes within each chapter.

    • Offers ready-made resource lists for advancing children's development through engaging books–serves as a "shopping list" for prospective teachers to develop their personal literature lists.

  • Inclusion of a wide variety of web sites relevant to children's literature–Ranging from author, illustrator, and publisher sites to sites administered by professional educational organizations.

    • Familiarizes students with the wealth of information available on the World Wide Web–points them to sites with reliable content and makes it easy to extend their knowledge beyond the text's coverage.



1. Defining Literature for Children.


2. Evaluating Literature for Children.


3. Sharing Literature.


4. The Literature Curriculum.


5. Supporting Children's Language Development.


6. Supporting Children's Intellectual Development.


7. Supporting Children's Personality Development.


8. Supporting Children's Social and Moral Development.


9. Supporting Children's Aesthetic and Creative Development.


10. Planning Your Program.


Appendix.

Author/Illustrator/Title Index.

Subject Index.

About the Author.

    This text is written for early childhood teachers and childcare professionals to help them learn to recognize high-quality children's literature and effectively use it to support emerging literacy development in preschool and primary-age children.  It not only exposes the literary merits of eary childhood literature, but also explains how to use children's literature as a teaching tool, offering a myriad of developmentally appropriate strategies for sharing literature with young children.
  • 0132405040Literature for Young Children: Supporting Emergent Literacy, Ages 0-8, 6/E
    Giorgis & Glazer
    © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 312 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0132405040 | ISBN-13: 9780132405041
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Literature for Young Children is designed to support preservice as well as inservice teachers by helping them recognize high-quality and developmentally appropriate children's books to share with PreK-3 children. Other goals of this text include explaining how to use children's literature to help develop children's language skills and their intellectual capacity, how to encourage healthy social and moral development, and how to nurture children's creativity. Text discussions cover both contemporary and classic literature for young children and provide teachers, parents, and child-care professionals opportunities to talk about reading while engaging children in experiences with good books. Teachers and day-care professionals will find myriad practical strategies, extensive book lists, and relevant websites valuable for PreK-3 curriculum planning.

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