Reading Globally, K–8
Connecting Students to the World Through Literature
This reader-friendly resource guides teachers and reading programme coordinators in selecting quality books for their classrooms, incorporating global literature into different content areas, and facilitating the discussions that follow. Practical guidance is provided on how to:
- Integrate the reading of global texts across the curriculum, with specific application to language arts, social studies, science, maths, and the arts
- Locate and evaluate the authenticity and literary merit of potential books, avoiding those that depict stereotypes
- Get started!-with an annotated list of children's books, samples of student work, and classroom vignettes from teachers.
"The authors illustrate how to teach to the standards using literature. More importantly, they explain why it is essential to do so if we are to prepare our children for life in a 21st century global society."
"This comprehensive volume helps educators at many levels become more skilled at providing high quality, meaningful, diverse literature experiences for students. The authors skillfully weave global text titles, authors, web sites, and strategy instruction throughout the book."
"Using both picture books and chapter books, the authors show specific ways in which literature can be used across the curriculum to help students see themselves as part of a global community."
