Children's Lit & Int. Arts

Catalog description

Children's Literature and Integrated Arts is organized to provide teacher candidates with the opportunity to develop and explore their understanding of the roles diverse children's literature and the arts play in the elementary curriculum. Candidates will have the opportunity to read and analyze the work of authors and illustrators in multiple genres (including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and storybooks) and formats (including audiobooks, podcasts, graphic novels, ebooks, and print). Candidates will also consider the instructional value of authors' and illustrators' work, develop strategies for inviting diverse young people to claim identities as readers, writers, and performers, and deliver language arts instruction through creative play, artistic expression, and performance. Candidates should anticipate reading deeply, examining children's literature for bias or prejudice, and analyzing the sociopolitical contexts to which contemporary, diverse children's literatures respond.