EL ED 340 Final

Mystery

A bad beginning- Lemony Snicket
The maze of bones- rick rirodan

Humor

Frindle, by Andrew Clements.
The Wednesday Wars , by Gary D. Schmidt

Realistic

stargirl- jerry spindelli
the outsiders - S.e hinton

Adventure

courage of sarah noble- Alice Danglesh
the year of the impossible goodbyes- sook nyul choi

Historical Fiction

The Devil's Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen
The magic treehouse- Mary Pope Osborne

Biography

The diary of a young girl Anne frank- by anne frank
Boy: tales of Childhood- Ronald Dahl

Modern Fantasy

The book of three- Llyod Alexander
The goose girl shannon hale

Non-Fiction

Bet you can't -- vicki Cobb
Navajo Code Talkers- nathan aaseng

Classics

Little women- Lousia May alcott
where the red fern grows- wilson rawls

5 Picture books authors

Alice and Martin Provensen: Mother Goose
David Shannon Illustrated by: David Shannon : No David!
Demi, illustrated by Demi The Empty Pot
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
by Maurice Sendak
HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON
by Crockett Johnson

Reasons why mother Goose Nursey Rhymes are beneficial for your children

1. Develop pronunciation and diction skills. (So many children today are Sesame Street, Sponge Bob, PBS Kids, and cartoon passive, or, as earlier generations were, Mr. Rogers relaxed.)
Increase and enrich vocabulary.
2. Pattern correct and interesting grammar usage; "set the literary ear."
3. Encourage active rather than passive participation.
4.Increase memorization skills when repeated often.
5. Have a predictable nature, which helps children reduce dependence on visual clues and gives them momentum for reading on their own because of their dependable lines and patterns.
6.Transmit culture.
7. Provide an extension of "home-rooted" language to include artful language (fluency, flexibility).
8. Create a preliminary love of poetry and rhythms.
9. Help children avoid and correct speech problems.
10. Stimulate children to think beyond reality and help form the early thinking skills.
11. Provide a fun, warm environment between parent and child.

3 Reasons why parents should read-aloud to children

1. Helps them develop a literary ear
2. Helps develop language patterns
3. Find joy in listening and reading books

cite five common elements in folktale/fairy tales

1. Short rhythmic introduction
2. Conclusion is much like the beginning
3. Characters are stereotyped
4. Plot is more important than characters
5. Use of powerful numbers like 3, 7, and 12

Define proverb

the most highly condensed sentence on human mistakes or wisdom

Define Fable

May grow out of folk or fairytales. Compact anecdotes with ideas of bad and good or wise and foolish, which become brief and attention getting stories. Usually has a moral

Define Parable

Short fables but feature humans instead of animals

Do's of teaching children to enjoy poetry

1. Do read and chant poetry aloud. Sometimes use a dramatic voice; at other times use rhythm.
2. Do begin with humorous or action poems, lots of them, and then branch out.
3. Do (on occasion) use a variety of media in presenting poems: CDs, DVDs, videos, recordings, pictures and slides, and music backgrounds.
4. Do keep a lot of poetry books around that are easily available to children.
5. Do let children practice a poem aloud before asking them to read it to others.
6. Do have poetry writing experiences often.
7. Do choose poems that have rhymes and free verse.
8. Do some memorizing (you and the children). It's back in style. Keep it low-key; don't require it, just enjoy saying it together daily. Remember benefits of nursery rhymes. Remember "setting the literary ear," and "learning to speak literary language," and rhythmic "predictive reading."
9. Do show your own love and excitement for wonderful poems. It's contagious.

Don'ts of teaching children to enjoy poetry

1. Don't associate poetry with any kind of school work.
2. Don't choose overly sentimental poems.
3. Don't confuse dissecting poems with learning to love poetry.
4. Don't read poetry aloud without practicing enough to read it well.
5. Don't read poems that may be about children, but not written for children.
6. Don't teach haiku in elementary school. The children dislike it!

3 rules of reading and writing

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