Texts for Children

Catalog description

Course topics include qualities of outstanding children's and adolescent literature, goals of a literature program, planning the literature curriculum, multicultural literature, teaching genres, selecting literature for the classroom, criteria for evaluating and strategies for using narrative and expository text written for students in grades K-12, students' reading interests and preferences, instructional strategies for teaching literature, evaluating students' progress in responding to literature, creating a response- centered and literature-rich classroom, developing a literature-based curriculum, and current trends in children's and adolescent literature.