Literature/Reading Text Presentation

Multicultural Children's Literature
Through the Eyes of Many Children

What?
  • Has six chapters describing literature from different cultures.
    • African American, Native American, Latino, Asian, Jewish, and Middle Eastern
  • Each chapter has two distinct sections.
    • First - offers a historical perspective of each culture
      • uses specific literature from each group
    • Second - shows techniques to share the information
      • uses a five step learning process
        • Step one - general approach to traditional literature
        • Step two - folklore from a narrower region
        • Step three - historical nonfiction
        • Step four - historical fiction
        • Step five - contemporary literature
  • Offers teaching ideas throughout the whole book
Why?
  • I looked for something I relate to.
    • The cover has kids who look like my campers.
  • The organization of the content.
    • Similar sections in each chapter was eye catching.
  • It shows just how much material there is out there.
    • There are eight pages of citing children's books in several chapters.
How?
  • Make a timeline of the history of a group
    • Put the literature in the time period it goes and say why
      • Uses the information from the "what" section
  • Contact someone from a piece of literature
    • Talk how someone from that culture and time period would
  • Read literature from the same time but different cultures or visa versa
    • Find similarities and differences in writing style and/or cultural beliefs
Challenges.
  • Too many choices, in my opinion
    • There are at least six pages of books they referenced for each chapter
  • Maybe include a whole chapter on Europe and North America
    • We already know somethings. I just think it might be useful.

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