Instructional Strategies for Children's Literature
Description
This course is designed to help students recognize the importance of books and reading in the life of the young child and to develop knowledge and appreciation of the wide variety and scope of reading material available for young people through grade 3. The course will incorporate strategies for evaluation and finding the best books, learning about authors and illustrators, and using books to ignite a lifelong love of reading as well as strategies to integrate good children’s literature, both nonfiction and fiction, across the curriculum.
Division
Humanities
Subject
Graduate Education
Academic Level
Graduate
Credits
1.00 c.u.