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President Kim B. Clark
President Kim B. Clark
ENG 355 Children's Literature Online
Credits: 3
Estimated Enrollment per Offering: 45 Students
Outcomes
- Understand and appreciate literature as a valuable source of intellectual, emotional, and aesthetic experience reflecting and enriching the human experience.
- Read literature within such contexts as genre, nationality, historical period, ethnicity, and culture.
- Apply appropriate critical theories to texts, orally and in writing.
- Develop library and research skills for locating, evaluating, and sharing children's books.
- Develop a log of books read.
- Share books read in a variety of settings and ways.
- Make curriculum connections with various genre and ages.
- Participate in discussions.
Description
Introduces students to the spectrum of children's literature, past and present. Emphasizes teacher education. (Required for Elementary Education majors.)
Content
This course has units on eight book genres and four teaching skills:
- Fairy Tales (including folklore and mythology)
- Religious Books (including scriptures, Conference talks, songs, and world religions)
- Asking Good Questions
- Informational Texts (including reference, non-fictional, and how-to books)
- Biographies (including autobiographies and true stories)
- Making Connections
- Historical Fiction
- Modern Realism
- Censoring Books
- Fantasy (including animal, modern, and high fantasy)
- Science Fiction
- Reading Aloud
Learning Model Architecture
The units will include a variety of picture book activities, discussions, book shares, quizzes, and tests requiring students to:
- Prepare (by reading literally dozens of books, plays, and short stories)
- Teach One Another (by sharing books, participating in discussions, and commenting on others' work)
- Ponder and Prove (by completing evaluations, summaries, and examinations)
Books
- Beauty, by Robin McKinley
- Read with Me Bible, by Doris Rikkers and Jean E. Syswerda
- Children Just Like Me, by Barnabas and Anabel Kindersley
- Lincoln: A Photobiography, by Russell Freedman
- From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E. L. Konigsburg
- Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes
- The Indian in the Cupboard, by Lynne Reid Banks
- The Giver, by Lois Lowry
Course Tools
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