Children’s Literature for All Students and Adults

Catalog description

This course will inspire and motivate the use of children’s literature and storytelling in the classroom. Various genres will be studied and methods of incorporating these genres into all content areas will be examined. Storytelling and children’s literature can be used as a strategy to teach and model desired higher levels of thinking skills in any curriculum area and at any grade level. It also creates the need for the student to apply critical thinking skills and discover that problems are often opportunities to use familiar strategies to arrive at solutions. Children’s literature and storytelling experiences can be the foundation of all language arts experiences: listening, speaking, reading, writing and vocabulary development. (3 credits)