EDEM 6629 Children’s Literature and Integrated Arts

Children’s Literature and Integrated Arts is organized to provide teacher candidates with the opportunity to develop and explore their understanding of the roles diverse children’s literature and the arts play in the elementary curriculum. Candidates will have the opportunity to read and analyze the work of authors and illustrators in multiple genres (including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and storybooks) and formats (including audiobooks, podcasts, graphic novels, ebooks, and print). Candidates will also consider the instructional value of authors’ and illustrators’ work, develop strategies for inviting diverse young people to claim identities as readers, writers, and performers, and deliver language arts instruction through creative play, artistic expression, and performance. Candidates should anticipate reading deeply, examining children’s literature for bias or prejudice, and analyzing the sociopolitical contexts to which contemporary, diverse children’s literatures respond.

Registration Name

Children’s Literature and Integrated Arts

Lecture Hours

3

Lab Hours

0

Credits

3

Offered

Athens: Spring, Demorest: Fall

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Explain effective strategies for teaching multicultural children’s literature that promote creative writing, dramatic play, and other artistic expressions.
• Synthesize theoretical perspectives and critical literacy theories that inform teaching children’s literature from a multicultural lens.
• Design developmentally appropriate reading and performance engagements.
• Integrate creative arts with reading and other content areas.
• Magnify connections between creativity and critical thinking.
• Read extensively in the area of children’s and YA literature.