Volume IV, Issue 4
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.
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Contents
Introduction
Creating Cross-Curricular Connections across Local and Global Cultures
by Kathy Short
Connecting Young Children and their Families to the World
Exploring Cultures in Primary Classrooms
by Marilyn Carpenter and the Spokane Literacy Community
Exploring Personal Cultures
by Lacey Grummons
Developing an Understanding about Cultures
by Janelle Stolp and Lindsay Abbey
Layers of Learning in Exploring Cultures in First Grade Classrooms
by Meg Baker and Charlotte Streit
Global Perspectives of Literacy and Social Studies
by Jeanne Fain and the Hobgood Professional Learning Community
Recognizing the Global in Our Own Community
by Janna McClain with Andrea Sumrall and Kimberly Swift
First Graders Connect Literature and Writer’s Workshop
by Martin Ridgley
Promoting Global Awareness in Second Grade Students
by Fran Wilson and the Madeira Literacy Community
Writing Book Reviews on Global Literature in a Second Grade Classroom
by Nicole Prater
Cultural Conversations
by Kristy Wanstrath
Celebrating World Water Day
by Tammy Saunders
Recognizing the Familiar in the Faraway through Children’s Literature
by Jane Wellman-Little, Cynthia Crosser, Jessica Dunton, and Barbara Keene
Creating Cross-Curricular Connections through Global Literature
Read Globally, Act Locally: A Global Environmental Literacy Community
Ernest Bond
Learning about Latin America through Multiple Texts in Middle School Classrooms
by Anne Hawkinson and Lauren Freedman
The Formation of Global Citizens
by Christiana Succar
Journey on the Silk Road: Creating a Google Lit Trip
by Sue Corbin
A Community Exploration of Global Literature and Social Justice
by Merna Hecht
Explorations of India and Gandhi
by Tim Heryford
Becoming a World Citizen
by Lauretta Hyde
WOW Stories, Volume IV, Issue 4 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/iv4/.