Since this book's debut, LITERATURE AND THE CHILD has become a popular choice in the children's literature market. The book covers the two major topical areas of children's literature -- genres of children's literature (e.g., picture books, folklore, etc.) and the use of children's literature in the classroom. The book is beautifully written and ...
A discussion on how children can read to respond, read to learn, and read to enjoy. This text provides evaluation criteria for selecting superior children's books. Booklists direct readers to quality literature and discussions of selected titles demonstrate the selection criteria. Multicultural literature is discussed throughout the text, with a ...
Galda and Cullinan explore the realm of children's literature. In the first part of the text, individual chapters are devoted to the genres of poetry, picture books, folklore, fantasy, contemporary realism.
This book focuses on practical, research-based approaches middle-grade teachers can use to help their students hone their reading abilities, learn from what they read, and become increasingly motivated to read and competent in responding to the sophisticated narrative and expository texts they encounter in the middle grades and beyond. The authors ...
In the Second Edition of this popular textbook, Galda, Cullinan, and Strickland continue to show new teachers how to use children's literature to support English language arts teaching and learning in kindergarten through eighth-grade classrooms. LANGUAGE, LITERACY, AND THE CHILD presents current theories and research alongside practical classroom ...
See how a group of second graders grew as readers, became literate thinkers, and participated in conversations about books. This volume, a collaboration between teacher-researcher Stanzi and two university researchers, Galda and Rayburn, is the story of how Stanzi transformed her basal-reading curriculum into a program that used literature-study ...
The authors take one aspect of cognitive development, early literacy, and study the effect of social influences on metalinguistic awareness. Based on a longitudinal study in homes and schools, they present the results of how diverse and close social relationships influence children's literacy learning as they progress through the first three years ...
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