Presents some 200 selections from children's literature with characters who respect the environment. Books are grouped in five genres (contemporary fiction, folk literature, historical fiction, biographies, and fanciful fiction) and entries contain full bibliographic data, a descriptive annotation,

Developing Environmental Awareness Through Children's Literature: A Guide for Teachers and Librarians, K-8

Cecil, Nancy Lee

Literature & Fiction

McFarland Publishing

Book by Cecil, Nancy Lee, Lauritzen, Phyllis

Literacy and the Arts for the Integrated Classroom: Alternative Ways of Knowing

Education & Teaching

Lauritzen, Phyllis

Schools & Teaching

Longman

Book by Roberts, Patricia L., Cecil, Nancy Lee, Alexander, Sharon

Gender Positive!: A Teachers' and Librarians' Guide to Nonstereotyped Children's Literature, K-8

Roberts, Patricia L.

Alexander, Sharon

Children's Books

Children develop their feelings toward other cultures and individuals largely through the ideas presented to them by parents and teachers. One good way is to show them respectable and accurately portrayed literary characters from many U.S. cultures.    Over 200 selections from children's literature, with plot and character synopses, feature Americans who can serve as role models in overcoming cultural stereotypes. Target activities (role playing, writing assignments, etc.) reinforce the multicultural concepts. The selections are divided into five areas: African American, Asian American, European American, Latino American, and Native American.

Developing Multicultural Awareness Through Children's Literature: A Guide for Teachers and Librarians, Grades K-8

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Asking questions is one of the most essential functions of teaching. In this book, the authors Nancy Lee Cecil and Jeanne Pfeifer show teachers how to develop both their own questioning skills and those of their students. The authors explain how to model provocative, open-ended questions, and provide many useful teacher- and student-directed questioning strategies. From these strategies, children learn how to ask questions that enable them to construct their own meaning from what they read and experience.This revised edition includes several new questioning strategies. In addition, many of the strategies found in the original edition have been updated and/or expanded to reflect today's best practices in education.The Art of Inquiry is divided into two sections. Part I identifies the many types of questions and the thinking skills they promote (such as knowledge, comprehension, analysis, and evaluation), and discusses how to foster the free flow of questions and anwers.

The Art of Inquiry: Questioning Strategies for K-6 Classrooms

Pfeifer, Jeanne

Portage & Main Press

Teaching to the Heart, 2/E describes a whole language program that has as its ultimate goal the creation of students who read competently, critically and joyfully, far beyond the classroom door. To this end teachers are exhorted to move beyond the skills-based approach and to embrace a philosophy that begins with the heart - rather than the head - of the learner.

Teaching to the Heart: An Effective Approach to Literacy Instruction

Sheffield Pub Co

Freedom Fighters, 2/E is about teaching the language arts, but it is much more than that. The book is an urgent appeal for teachers to arm their students with the power to communicate freely and unself-consciously by offering to them the joy that comes from knowing how to express themselves. The book charges that caring teachers are the REAL Freedom Fighters - freeing children to communicate by providing them with the tools of the language arts and the confidence to use them, while sharing enthusiastically in their successes.

Freedom Fighters: Affective Teaching of the Language Arts

Suggests alternative responses to potentially violent situations, ways to resolve conflicts, family activities, and techniques for dealing with television violence

Raising Peaceful Children In A Violent World

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Publishing/Editing Network

Striking a Balance: Positive Practices for Early Literacy is written to help prepare pre-service and practicing teachers to meet the challenge of today's diverse student population and create a comprehensive program that places direct skills instruction within the context of rich and varied reading and writing experiences. Readable, thorough, and contemporary, this concise text addresses the core topics and issues of literacy acquisition clearly and succinctly. Grounded in theory and research, Striking a Balance also shows readers how theory informs practice through its corresponding focus on classroom application.

Striking a Balance: Positive Practices for Early Literacy

Holcomb Hathaway Pubs

70 activities for literacy instruction that have been found to be highly effective in today's diverse classrooms.

Activities for Striking a Balance in Early Literacy

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