Volume I, Issue 1
Developing Intercultural Understandings Through International Children’s Literature at Van Horne Elementary School
Contents
- Introduction: Developing Intercultural Understandings Through International Children’s Literature at Van Horne Elementary, Tucson Unified School District, Tucson, Arizona
- Encouraging Reflection through the Graffiti Boards and Literature Circles
- Exploring Kids’ Talk about Books: An Author Study of Kevin Henkes
- Young Children’s Responses to Texts in Art and Music
- Creating Lifelong Relationships: Children’s Connections to Characters
- Exploring Racism and Prejudice through Literature
- Engaging Students with the Unfamiliar: Nory Ryan’s Song
- Extending Thinking: Literature Response through Art
- Moving from Topics to Conceptual Thinking through Literature Discussion: The Other Side
- A Rocky Road from Disaster to Dialogue and Back Again: Literature Discussion Over Time
- When Literature Discussion Seems to Go Nowhere: Revaluing Teaching and Learning
- Exploring Culture through Literature Written in Unfamiliar Languages
Contributors:
Van Horne Elementary
- Jennifer Griffith, Teacher, Second Grade
- Kathryn Tompkins, Teacher, Fourth Grade
- Amy D. Edwards, Teacher, Fifth Grade
- Lisa Thomas, Instructional Coach
University of Arizona
- Kathy G. Short, Professor
Production Editor:
Rebecca K. Ballenger
WOW Stories, Volume I, Issue 1 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/storiesi1/.
WOW stories: connections from the classroom
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