Contents
Introduction
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.