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Chapter 1 Believing In Living Literature

This chapter provides useful information for creating a living literature classroom. By having age-appropriate books and including a wide variety of materials including fiction, non-fiction, classic literature, essays, folk tales, myths, and fables.Through careful selection of materials, close observation of your students, and an understanding of how literacy develops, you can create a living literature classroom.

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Chapther 2 Culture

It is important to show a genuine interest in children, their language, and their culture. Create a stress-free learning environment in the classroom. Set high expectations for all your students in order to create a community of learners in the classroom.

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Chapter 3 Comprehension

Comprehension is were the reader has to know how to read and know what they are reading. They can achieve this by making connections to prior knowledge and developing a picture of what is being read.

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Diary of a Worm

By: Doreen Cronin

A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world.

What makes the Season's?
By: Megan Montague Cash

This book answers thoughts, and questions that children have about the weather and the seasons. This is a easy rhyming text describes how plants grow and respond to seasonal changes.

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Presentations:

I really enjoyed The Esperanza Rising presentation. It was clear and nicely done. The doll making activity was fun and the fruits that Hilda shared with the class was a unique way of presenting the time line of the book.

The House on Mango Street group had a lot of information which was presented in a clear and orderly manner. I really enjoyed their activity.

The Anne Frank group was my favorite. My group was great, we put a lot of effort in to our presentation. Evelyn, Juan, and Angela were awesome. They were willing to meet whenever we need to. We wanted to get our classmates interested in the diary, hopefully they will want to read it.

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Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales: The Crying Woman
Presenters: James, Melissa, Connie, Marissa

I enjoyed their presentation and activities, it was interesting and fun. The art work was very beautiful and creative. The story brought back memories of my childhood. I learned that ghost stories where sold for money and entertainment. If the story is repeated often it means it is true. They are told to teach a moral.

Ch. 12 Independent Reading

During independent reading students choose the book they want to read and they need access to a variety of books from which to choose from. They need uninterrupted time(30 minutes), have a comfortable and quiet spot in which to read, while the teacher offers help and support during the process. The students can take notes of favorite parts of the book or quotes and make connections to their lives by writing in their journal.

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Chapter 11 Shared and Guided Reading


Shared Reading
Teachers read aloud while students follow along using individual copies of a book or a big book.

During Shared Reading students are learning to.....

• track print from left to right and word by word
• predict and refer
• enjoy and participate in reading with high level of support
• build sense of story
• expand their vocabulary
• find letters and sounds in context
• attend to concepts of print (spacing, capitalization, punctuation)
• sequence the events of a story
• focus on story elements (characters, setting, beginning, middle, end).

Guided Reading

Teachers support students as they read text at their reading levels.

These are just a few areas in which to help students with during guided reading......

• tracking points left to right and word by word
• one to one matching
• using picture cues
• applying letters and sound knowledge in context
• activating prior knowledge
• recognizing and reading sight words
• predicting and inferring
• attending to concepts of print (spacing, capitalization, punctuation)
• retelling a story with sequence and story elements (characters,setting, beginning, middle, end)
• self correcting

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Recommended Read-Aloud Stories

Kindergarten-

Make Way for Ducklings:

is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey. First published in 1941, the book tells the story of a pair of mallard ducks who decide to raise their family on an island in the lagoon in Boston Public Garden, a park in the center of Boston, Massachusetts.

Grade 1-

Officer Buckle and Gloria:

is the name of the 1995 story and main characters of the story by Peggy Rathmann. It talks about a police officer (Officer Buckle) getting a dog named Gloria. Until that time, whenever Officer Buckle tried to tell schools about safety everyone fell asleep. Then, unbeknownst to Officer Buckle (literally, behind his back), Gloria does tricks to demonstrate safety rules, and Gloria is a big success. When Officer Buckle finds out that the schoolchildren are so enthusiastic because of Gloria, he refuses to teach safety and a huge accident happens. A letter from a sweet girl, named Claire, convinces Officer Buckle to start teaching again. In the end, Officer Buckle and Gloria go to many schools and teach the students about safety together.

Grade 2-

Rechenka's eggs

Author: Patricia Polacco
Babushka loves miracles, painting eggs, and animals; She nurses a goose back to good health and the goose gives back to Babushka.

Grade 3-

Charlotte's Web

Author: E. B. White
The novel tells the story of a pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a barn spider named Charlotte. When Wilbur is in danger of being slaughtered by the farmer, Charlotte writes messages praising Wilbur (such as "Some Pig") in her web in order to persuade the farmer to let him live.

Grade 4-

Esperanza Rising

A novel by Pam Muñoz Ryan. Set during the time of the American Great Depression, it examines the plight of the Mexican farmworkers as they struggle to adapt and survive in the United States.

Grade 5-

The Watsons Go to Birmingham
A fictional book by Christopher Paul Curtis. It is about an African American family living in the town of Flint, Michigan who go to their grandmother's home in Birmingham, Alabama.

Grade 6-

Tuck Everlasting

A fantasy children's novel by Natalie Babbitt, It was published in 1975. The book explores the concept of immortality and the reasons why it might not be as desirable as it appears.

Grade 7-

Holes

Holes is a novel by Louis Sachar.Stanley is just a regular kid until he is found responsible for a crime he didn't commit. We learn about a curse that has been in his family for several generations. His bad luck lands Stanley in a very strange correctional camp in the Texas desert. The warden has all the inmates digging holes in a dry lake bed. The story weaves interesting tall tales from local history and Stanley's family. The relationships among the juveniles in the camp are interesting to follow. Stanley finds a good friend, treasure, and learns to like himself.

Grade 8-

Homeless Bird
When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid

By: Jeff Kinney

It's a new school year, and Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. The hazards of growing up before you're ready are uniquely revealed through words and drawings as Greg records them in his diary.

Mamá Goose: A Latino Nursery Treasury/Mamá Goose: Un Tesoro de Rimas Infantiles
By: Alma Flor Ada
Age Level: 0-3
Reading Level: Pre-Reader

This book is a collection of Spanish-language lullabies, finger games, nursery rhymes, jump-rope songs, riddles, birthday songs, and more. It compiles songs from different Spanish-speaking countries. The English translations keep the essence of the native language, and grab the reader using captivating terminology.

Snowballs

By: Lois Ehlert

Pull on your mittens and head outside for a snowball day. Grab some snow and start rolling. With a few found objects—like buttons and fabric and seeds—and a little imagination, you can create a whole family out of snow. Children will love poring over Lois Ehlert's bold, funny illustrations and identifying the common (and not so common) objects she uses to decorate her snowy family.

Some children create a family out of snow. Includes labeled pictures of all the items they use, as well as information about how snow is formed.

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My Very Own Room/Mi Propio Cuartito

By: Amada Irma Perez

Five little brothers, two parents, and a house full of visiting relatives make a young Mexican American girl feel crowded. She loves her family, but how can she get a little space of her own? Her loving and understanding family works together to turn a small storage space into her very own room. This delightful memoir of a childhood in El Monte, California, pours from the pen of first-time author and bilingual teacher Amada Irma Pérez with exuberance and skill. Renowned painter Maya Christina Gonzalez brings the captivating scenes to life with bold colors and whimsical details.

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Ch. 10 Reading Aloud: Bringing Literature Alive for All Ages

I don't remember teachers reading to me when I was in school. Since I've been in college/university, I recall teachers reading to me and enjoying every minute. My favorite is Mrs. Rita Garza which I have for Language Arts. She seems to have a way of capturing an audience and as she reads to the class, they begin to quiet down, start to relax, and listen intently to her every word. That is the kind of effect you would like to portray in your read aloud.
One of the first things you learn as a teacher is that students love to be read to. If you have a good book and a bit of theatrics, you can capture your students hearts.

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chapter 9 Nonfiction

Nonfiction-books in which the writing is factual. Patterns of nonfiction: description, main idea/supporting details, comparison/contrast, process, cause and effect, and chronological order.

Here are some great graphic organizer web sites: www.makinglearningfun.com, http://www.eduplace.com;/graphicorganizers/, http://www.teachervision.fen.com/graphic-organizers/printable/6293.html

Web: The important information in a description can be organized in a web.
Table organizer: Important information which follows the main/idea supporting details pattern can be arranged in a table organizer.
Venn Diagram: Important information that compares two things can be organized in a Venn diagram.
List: Important information that follows the process pattern can be arranged in a list.
Cause And Effect: Important information that shows cause and effect can be organized in a domino effect.
Time Line: Information about important events can be arranged chronologically on a time line.
KWL Chart: KWL stands for what I Know, what I Want to know, and what I Learned.

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Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse

By Leo Lionni

Alexander was lonely....... then he met Willie.

One day while exploring the house Alexander comes across and befriends a wind-up mouse named Willie. Alexander becomes jealous of his new found friend and asks a magical lizard to change him into a wind-up mouse as well.

Twilight

By: Stephanie Meyer

Twilight is a young-adult vampire-romance novel. It is the first book of the Twilight series, and introduces seventeen-year-old Isabella "Bella" Swan, who moves from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington and finds her life in danger when she falls in love with a vampire, Edward Cullen. The novel is followed by New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn.

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ch. 8 The Fiction Family:

Fiction- books that are made up by the author, or are not true.

Realistic fiction- involves real life with characters dealing with real life problems

Historical fiction- often portrays fictional accounts or dramatization of historical figure or events

Fantasy fiction- uses magic and other supernatural forms as a theme, and or setting

Science fiction- imaginary elements that are possible within scientifically established laws of nature

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Here are a few picture books that I have read recently:

Duck on A Bike
Shannon, David
A duck decided to ride a bike and soon influenced all the other animals on the farm to ride bikes too.

Good Night, Gorilla
Rathmann, Peggy
An unobservant zookeeper is followed home by all the animals he thinks he left behind in the zoo.

If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
Numeroff, Laura J.
Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie and takes the reader through a young child's day.

The True Story Of The Three little Pigs
By A. Wolf
Scieszka, John
Illustrated By Lane Smith
The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.

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chapter 7
Picture books combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. The images in picture books use a range of media such as oil paints, acrylics, watercolor, and pencil. They tend to have to functions: they are first read to young children by adults and then children read them themselves once they begin to learn to read.

Ch. 6Traditional Literature
This chapter offers many ideas on how to teach this genre to your students. Traditional literature has something that appeals to all interests ex: adventure stories, humorous stories, and magical stories. Types of traditional literature are folktales, fables, myths, and legends. Using graphic organizers helps the students understand what they are reading and compare different versions of the story.

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Poetry is the expression of a thought, idea, or story in a structured form which has flow and music created by sounds and syllables. As such it gives the student freedom of expression. I believe there should be discussion about the different forms of poetry, but students should be allowed to choose what type of poem they would like to create. Also I believe they should pick a poem they would like to recite to the class, not be assign by the teacher. If the student has this opportunity it will be more meaningful to them.
Ch. 5

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written by: Jamie Lee Curtis & Laura Cornell

Ages: 4-8 Grades: PreK-3

"Big Words For Little People"

Is about EMPOWERMENT!

There are rhyming words that are fun to say and the students learn new vocabulary with vivid pictures and

examples.

"Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods That Make My Day"

Is about feelings and moods.

This book has many examples about how children feel in many situations and has colorful pictures which keep them interested.

I really enjoyed both books, we read them in EDRG 3344 in a group activity. After reading both books we wrote a letter to the author. Fun writing activity for students.

Learn more at http://www.jamieleecurtisbooks.com/

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Ch.13 Literature Circles
Literature circles gives the students an opportunity to have peer discussions more freely with guidance from the teacher. They can also present their books to the class by making a collage, acting out a part from the book, or singing a song.This in turn may encourage other students to want to read the book. Students can develop their creativity by working in groups.

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Ch. 4 Responding to Literature
I believe children respond to books by the way the teacher presents them in class. How you talk about the book makes a big difference. You can them questions like: "I wonder what this book is about?" or do a picture walk, make predictions, or read a passage to make them want to read the book. Presentation is key into motivating them to want to read.

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Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do you see?

Written by Bill Martin Jr,1967 Illustrated by Eric Carle

This book has appealing animals in bright colors that are seen and named in rhyming and response form. This is a fun and repetitive book that you can read to Pre-K students when learning about different animals and their environment or before taking a trip to the zoo. Learn more at www.ericcarle.com

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Chapter 14

You can teach the writing process to 3 and 4 year old by allowing them to make their own book.
Have a crate of board books and allow them to choose a book they would like to read. Then the following day have the students make their own book with two pieces of cardboard and some paper. Tell them to think and make a plan about what they would like their book to be about. Have them write a title, draw a picture in the front cover, their name as the author, and then begin writing or drawing their story. This activity can take between one or two weeks depending on how much time you have. The students enjoy this because they are able to create a book and are able to share it with our class.
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If you like Tedd Arnold here is a good website www.teddarnoldbooks.com. You can find children's picture books written and illustrated by Tedd Arnold.

Since we are in football season here is a fun book to read: Hooray For Fly Guy!

This book is about a fly who wants to try out for the football team. The coach does not believe he can succeed but at the end everyone is cheering for Fly Guy!

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