Thursday, August 27, 2009

EDRG 3321 Children's Literature Books

EDRG 3321 Children Literature Books Blog #1

I went and Google Children’s Literature Books and several different websites came up. The websites would talk about the book and if the book had good reviews or not. One in particular website called http://www.carolhurst.com/titles/1st.html had some different aspects to it. First, it had suggested books for 1st grade and a bunch listed from A – Z. It was made available to you when you click on a book you could get the review along with other related material like books to use with it. On some of the books that you click on the title and it would even had activities to do with it. It also has the option of things to notice and talk about the book with the children. It is all laid out for you and gives you more than objective to do with that one book. One of the children’s literature authors that I happen to click on was The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forrest by Lynne Cherry. I was amazed on all the extra information that came out with it. It had 5 extra books that to the book, The Great Kapok Tree was talking about so you could use it with that book. Also, had activities to do with the book, where to purchase the book as well.

Another website I found was http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/child_lit/authors/. This website you could find an author on the list and everything you needed to know about them. It has the bio and the books that they wrote. This website might come useful later on in the class.

2 comments:

  1. I went to the second website and found Laura Numeroff, the author of If You Take A Mouse to School. She was on there, but for If You Give A Moose a Muffin, it was very convenient. The resources were possible questions you could ask before and after the book, activities, and other related books or readings. This was definitely a good site to view. Thanks

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  2. I really liked the second website you provided. I clicked on Dr. Suess because my son has quite a collection and he has loved them from an early age. It had some interesting information about the author. I took this from the website because I found it interesting on how The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham (two of my sons favorites) were created.
    -In May of 1954, Life published a report concerning illiteracy among school children. The report said, among other things, that children were having trouble to read because their books were boring. This inspired Geisel's publisher, and prompted him to send Geisel a list of 400 words he felt were important, asked him to cut the list to 250 words (the publishers idea of how many words at one time a first grader could absorb), and write a book. Nine months later, Geisel, using 220 of the words given to him published The Cat in the Hat, which went on to instant success.

    In 1960 Bennett Cerf bet Geisel $50 that he couldn't write an entire book using only fifty words. The result was Green Eggs and Ham. Cerf never paid the $50, btw...
    http://www.seuss.org/seuss/seuss.bio.html

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