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From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman>
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:28:57 -0500
Doris shared a number of different books about World War II in Europe she has used or paired. This is a subject that offers some incredible children's and young adult literature to draw upon.
Similarily, I was thinking about the range of rich books, across genres, about the Civil Rights Movement.
When I first read Carole Boston Weatherford's poem "Birmingham, 1963" last year, I thought about books it might be paired with, from the obvious choice of "The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963" by Christopher Paul Curtis to one of the many works of non-fiction, such as Diane McWhorter's "A Dream of Freedom" or "Oh Freedom, Kids Talk about the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made it Happen" by Casey King and Linda Barrett Osborne.
Or what about Chris Crowe's "Getting Away with Murder" and Marilyn Nelson's "A Wreath for Emmett Till"?
I've heard from teachers in middle and high school who will use a picture book to introduce a unit of study that is then explored in the classroom through other books and resources. Does anyone have examples of using picture books along with books written for an older audience?
Megan
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:28:57 -0500
Doris shared a number of different books about World War II in Europe she has used or paired. This is a subject that offers some incredible children's and young adult literature to draw upon.
Similarily, I was thinking about the range of rich books, across genres, about the Civil Rights Movement.
When I first read Carole Boston Weatherford's poem "Birmingham, 1963" last year, I thought about books it might be paired with, from the obvious choice of "The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963" by Christopher Paul Curtis to one of the many works of non-fiction, such as Diane McWhorter's "A Dream of Freedom" or "Oh Freedom, Kids Talk about the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made it Happen" by Casey King and Linda Barrett Osborne.
Or what about Chris Crowe's "Getting Away with Murder" and Marilyn Nelson's "A Wreath for Emmett Till"?
I've heard from teachers in middle and high school who will use a picture book to introduce a unit of study that is then explored in the classroom through other books and resources. Does anyone have examples of using picture books along with books written for an older audience?
Megan
-- Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison 608/262-9503 schliesman at education.wisc.edu www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/Received on Thu 04 Sep 2008 09:28:57 AM CDT
