Volume IV, Issue 3
WOW Stories: Connections from the Classroom is a regular on-line publication of WOW containing vignettes written by classroom educators about children’s experiences reading and responding to literature in the classroom setting.
Contents
Introduction
Global Literacy Communities: Teacher Book Clubs and Global Explorations
By Kathy G. Short
The Teacher Talk/TALL (Teachers Applying Language and Literacy), Long Island, New York
The Teacher Talk Literacy Community: Our Study of ‘What is Global Literature?’
by the Teacher Talk Literacy Community:
Stephanie Annunziata: Widening the World: Mapping Global Literature in a Kindergarten Classroom
Liza Carfora: We Speak for the Trees! Fourth Graders Investigate their Global Relationship with Nature
Esmeralda Carini: The Heart of Literature is Conversation
Stephanie Eberhard: Getting started with Global Literature in the High School English Classroom
Amy Gaddes: Bringing Global Themes into a “Local” Classroom Discussion
AmyMarie Livermore: Teaching Humanism through Global Literature in the Elementary Reading Classroom
Jennifer Pullara: Learning and Reading the World through Literature
Louise Shaw: What is Global Literature?
Joan Zaleski: A Read-a-Thon with Pre-Service Education Students
Vera Zinnel: Who Writes History? A Study of Columbus’ Voyage
The Saturday Morning Book Group, Columbia, Missouri
Using Global Literature to Build Understandings for All Students
by Carol Gilles and the Saturday Morning Book Group
Introducing the Text Sets: Investigating Myanmar (Burma) with First and Fifth Grade Buddies
by Jean Dickinson
First Grade’s Introduction to Cuba
by Missy Morrison
From The Three Questions to about a Million More: Kindergartners Explore Russia
by Linda Wycoff with Janice Henson
Using Arts/Literacy Integration with Global Literature
by Gennie Pfannenstiel with Linda Aulgur
Growing Compassion: Using Global Text Sets with Second Graders
by Tara Gutshall
Final Reflection: What Did We Learn?
by Carol Gilles
WOW Stories, Volume IV, Issue 3 by Worlds of Words is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://wowlit.org/on-line-publications/stories/iv3/.
I have only just begun to explore your work on this webpage but am so interested in delving deeper and applying some of this work in my own practice. The text sets, materials, and activities you have posted are very informative and helpful. You have done a lot of research and leg work that many classroom teachers are not able to do AND provided a guide for those of us who would like to engage in this type process.
Your packet on Burma is especially interesting to me as I work with a large population of Burmese refugees.
Thank you for sharing your work.
I am interested to know how your reading specialists fit into this exploration?
Thank you again,
Maggie Burns