Ideas

1993 ◽  
Vol 40 (9) ◽  
pp. 512-519
Author(s):  
Martha H. (Marty) Hopkins ◽  
Daniel J. Brahier
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Grade Levels ◽  
Wide Range

The “IDEAS” section for this month focuses on connections between mathematics and children's literature. Five piece of literature are applied to teaching a wide range of topics in the mathematics curriculum, from sorting and classifying to the meaning of averages. The reproducible sheets in “IDEAS” are designed to be used by multiple grade levels. Included are four classroom activities and an activity sheet for parents use. A teacher may want to reproduce and use everal sheets.

scholarly journals Multi-aspect potential of project activities in the university (based on the innovative platform project material)

2021 ◽  
Vol 121 ◽  
pp. 02012
Author(s):  
Olga Nikolaevna Chelyukanova ◽  
Natalia Evgenievna Titkova
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Children's Book ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
The University ◽  
Different Levels

The article discusses the methodology of work on the project of the “Revival of traditions of family reading in the modern spiritual education of children and youth” innovative platform, organized in the Arzamas branch of the SUNN. The project is a cumulative phenomenon that synthesizes the scientific and methodological experience of leading teachers, psychologists, and organizers of children’s reading, research scientists of children’s literature. The project involves scientists, teachers of educational institutions of different levels, students, children of different ages, and their parents in a wide joint creative activity. Particular attention in the development of this practice-oriented innovative project is paid to the activities of the student initiative group and its pedagogical effect. The educational strategy of the project contributes to the development of constructive critical thinking and is aimed at developing a wide range of professional competencies among students participating in the project: professional and pedagogical, communicative, general cultural, and informational. The article pays particular attention to the description of the complex of educational products and forms of methodological assistance to teachers and parents. In the process of implementing this project, the urgent needs of teachers and families participating in the project are met. Those include the acquisition of methodological experience in working with parents and children to popularize children’s literature and family reading; practical experience of working with a children’s book in a family circle; the acquisition of artistic reading and recitation skills by the project participants; the generalization and systematization of scientific and methodological experience in the field of children’s literature and family reading; family and creative literary communication; the introduction to the literary study of local lore. Literary and ethical-artistic questions are brought to spectators through theatrical communication.

scholarly journals Diversity in Children’s Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie A. Leahy ◽  
Bridget C. Foley
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Inclusive Classroom ◽  
Classroom Environments ◽  
Reading Levels ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Classroom Libraries ◽  
Children's Interests ◽  
Selection Of

<p><em>Children’s literature is profoundly influential in the lives of students and is widespread throughout schools, libraries, and homes. However, the field of children’s literature lacks diversity across several domains, particularly race, gender, and ability. Educators must be knowledgeable on how to use diverse children’s literature as a tool to teach about diversity, as they strive to foster inclusive classroom environments. Teachers must also design their classroom libraries with intense care so as to provide a wide-ranging selection of books to meet the needs of children’s interests and reading levels. Books are a powerful tool for development, so teachers must make conscious decisions about the materials they provide to young readers. All children deserve exposure to a wide range of books, which include characters who are both similar and different from themselves. Educators have a responsibility to expose students to diversity through a well-written selection of multifaceted children’s literature.</em></p>

Mathematics from Children's Literature

1988 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 42-47
Author(s):  
Rosamond Welchman Tischler
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Curriculum Guides ◽  
Children's Interests

The mathematics curriculum for young children can grow from children's literature. The following examples encourage children to use a variety of thinking skills—classifying, forming hypotheses, selecting strategies, and creating problems. As a result, they offer more depth and breadth in mathematics than most curriculum guides or texts currently suggest. At the same time, the examples build on children's interests and involve them in an informal, active, and creative way. ln particular, they offer the manipulative experiences that are necessary at this age.

Exploring Estimation through Children's Literature

1994 ◽  
Vol 41 (8) ◽  
pp. 436-441
Author(s):  
David J. Whitin
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Real World ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
Mental Computation ◽  
Real World Applications

Estimation is a crucial mathematical strategy that can be woven throughout the entire mathematics curriculum. The strategy can certainly foster the development of many of the goals advocated by the NCTM's curriculum and evaluation standards (1989). Since approximately 80 percent of real-world applications of mathematics involve estimation or mental computation, the goal of becoming an “informed electorate” requires us to use and analyze various estimation strategies.

Stylistics and children’s literature

2022 ◽  
pp. 096394702110721
Author(s):  
Michael Burke ◽  
Karen Coats
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Young Adult Fiction ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Analytic Skills

This article constitutes an introduction to the five articles that appear in this special issue. This framing process starts by highlighting the sparse, yet important, work that has been conducted over the past 20 years on children’s literature in the field of stylistics. The focus in the article then turns to a more general discussion on the language of children’s literature. Here, in this chronological overview of language usage in books written for children, an outline is sketched from the writers and philosophers of the enlightenment up to contemporary debates on literacy, cognition and theory of mind. In the section that follows, the five studies that appear in this special issue are briefly synopsized. What becomes apparent is the wide range of methodological approaches that have been taken by the scholars in question to analyze the texts that are under investigation, in both quantitative and qualitative ways. The article ends with a plea for more stylistic work to be conducted in the areas of both children’s literature and young adult fiction. This is especially pertinent because stylisticians possess the key linguistic and analytic skills and tools to help, in interdisciplinary settings, to address current social, emotional and cognitive challenges pertaining to child development through literacy and through reading in particular.

Literature for Minors

2020 ◽  
pp. 92-134
Author(s):  
Kenneth B. Kidd
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Minor Literature ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Minor

Chapter 3 entertains the idea that children’s literature might also be called a literature for minors, and even a minor literature as conceptualized by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Children are legally minors, but adults can be minors too, culturally if not also legally. Such an understanding of children’s literature broadens our sense of its purpose. The chapter begins with Walter Benjamin’s attention to childhood and children’s forms as a baseline for critical thinking about “minors.” It then traces the reception history of Lewis Carroll’s Alice, the Anglophone children’s classic that most closely approaches recognition as theory. Finally, the chapter explores the idea that some children’s literature functions as queer theory for kids, discussing a wide range of texts including A Series of Unfortunate Events. The chapter concludes with a reading of Alison Bechdel’s memoir Are You My Mother?, seemingly for adults but preoccupied with queer childhood.

The Patchwork Quilt: A Context for Problem Solving

1992 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-203
Author(s):  
Deborah A. Carey
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Real World ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Patchwork Quilt

A mathematics curriculum that focuses on problem solving needs relevant, challenging problems for students to solve. The most engaging problems initially emerge from real-world contexts and offer opportunities for extensions that are limited only by the problem-solving abilities of the students. As suggested by the NCfM's Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (1989), students learn new concepts and skills through problem-solving experiences. Therefore, selecting appropriate contexts that offer opportunities for problem solving and from which students can generate problems is critical. This article discusses how one piece of children's Literature be used to develop appropriate problem solving tasks.

scholarly journals News & Announcements

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Children's Book ◽  
Northern District ◽  
News Announcements ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Selection Of

Greetings Everyone! There are only a few news items for the fall issue: International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Announces  List of 100 Children’s Books in Arabic "Here is a selection of 100 children’s books in Arabic published in various countries of the Arab world. This selection reflects the dynamism of a sector that has truly taken off in the past twenty years, with the publication of a wide range of titles whose quality is often recognised by international awards."Finalists Announced for the 2017 Canadian Children’s Book Centre AwardsThe CCBC has announced the finalists in for their annual book awards. This includes the $30,000 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. See the CCBC website for a full list of finalists."So you want to get Published?" SeminarThe Canadian Children's Book Centre is hosting a seminar for aspiring children's book authors on November 4, 2017 at 10:00 AM at the Northern District Library in Toronto, ON.  Details are found on the CCBC website.Vancouver Children's Literature Roundtable (VCLR) The VCLR, announced the 2017 Information Book Award Shortlist. The shortlist can be found on the VCLR webiste. The winner will be announced in November 2017.Wishing you bright fall days!Hanne Pearce - Communications Editor

scholarly journals On Translation of Children's Literature: Characters of Children's Books Enjoy a Different Diet in Iran

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Bita Naghmeh-abbaspour ◽  
Tengku Sepora Tengku Mahadi
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Analysis Study ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Food And Drink ◽  
Child Reader ◽  
Real Challenge ◽  
Present Effort

Undoubtedly the difficulty of translating culture-bound elements will be be much more challenging when the audience are children who do not have any perspective on cultural diversity of different nations. The culture-bound elements can be consists of a wide range of elements, i.e. proper names, religion terms, food and drink items and so on. Dealing with each of these items will be a real challenge when translators have this perception that most probably their audiences do not have any idea about the in hand culturebound element, and it will be their choice to present the new items to the child reader or replace it with a familiar one. With this perspective, the present textual analysis study, aims to explore the lexical choices that translator's of children's literature in Iran made, facing such elements. The present effort restricts itself to the "food and drink" items and illustrates the way that Persian translators approach these culturebound elements in a 70 years period and discusses their lexical choices following the socio-cultural norms of the time.

The Seer Technique: A Non-Computational Procedure for Quickly Estimating Readability Level

1975 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Singer
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Computational Procedure ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Grade Levels ◽  
Readability Level

A sample-methods scales technique, analogous to Thomdike's procedure for rating handwriting, was used to determine readability levels of eight randomly arrayed paragraphs selected from children's literature covering the range from grades 1 through 6. Readability levels were arrived at by having judges match the randomly arrayed paragraphs either to a scale constructed for the study from paragraphs taken from children's literature or to a scale of paragraphs taken from Spache's Diagnostic Reading Scales. Validity of the technique was established by the chi-square finding that judged versus computed readability levels of the randomly arrayed paragraphs were not significantly different. Moreover, the average readability estimates for the 32 judges deviated less than an average of 1.0 grade levels from their computed readability levels. Comparisons with other simplified readability procedures revealed the technique was more valid than McLaughlin's computational procedure and as valid as Fry's graphed estimate for determining readability, but quicker, requiring approximately only two minutes per paragraph to estimate readability level. The paper concludes with discussion of a rationale for the technique's effectiveness.

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