EDEM 3329 Children's Literature

Multicultural Children’s Literature is organized to provide teacher candidates with opportunities to develop their understanding of the roles diverse children’s literature 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, e-books, 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 explorations of stories. 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

Lecture Hours

3

Lab Hours

0

Credits

3

Offered

Athens: Spring, Demorest: Fall

Student Learning Outcomes

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

1. Select and use strategies for teaching authentic multicultural children's literature.
2. Evaluate and discuss the literary and artistic merit of children's literature and illustrations.
3. Align explorations of multicultural children's literature with standards-based literacy learning tasks.
4. Compare how authors address, represent, and clarify both contemporary and historical global, social, political, and economic issues for young people through the medium of multicultural children's literature.
5. Explore connections between creativity and critical thinking.
6. Read extensively in the area of children's and young adult literature.