This course is taught by Professor Richard Giso.. Students study the benefits of reading to children while learning about the origins and genres of children’s literature for ages birth-eight. Wide reading of children’s books builds the foundational knowledge necessary to select, evaluate, research, review, and share children’s literature across early childhood settings. The course emphasizes as well how children’s literature reflects a wide range of ways to support anti-bias/anti-racist education and how children’s literature may be used to support early literacy and social emotional development and to promote social justice.
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All the fiction/nonfiction pairs in BookFlix are categorized according to nine themes: Animals and Nature; Earth and Sky; Family and Community; People and Places; Music and Rhyme; ABC's and 1, 2, 3's; Adventure; Imagination; and Celebrations..
TeachingBooks.net is an easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. This one stop database provides resources for books you are reading and teaching, including author and illustrator interviews, lesson plans, and other enrichment content.
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Social Justice Subject Heading Resources
Children's Literature and Social Justice Book Awards:
Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2022
Social Justice Books: Guide for Selecting Anti-Bias Children’s Books
Black Books Matter: Children's Books Celebrating Black Boys - The Conscious Kid
Guide for selecting anti-bias children's books - Social Justice Books
Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance - Embrace Race
We All Have Different Shades of Skin Story - Autism Little Learners