1. Using Multiethnic Literature in the K–8 Classroom Education 430—The Teaching of Reading and Literature with a Multicultural Perspective K-6

2. Children ’ s Literature Literature develops students’ imaginations and it also provides implicit and explicit information about issues and other people. Taxel, p. 11

3. Multicultural Children ’ s Literature Multicultural Literature is for all students.

4. Solutions Teachers can do many things and teachers can and do make a difference.

5. Multicultural Children ’ s Literature It is important for teachers to evaluate children’s literature on both its literary qualities, and on its content.

6. Multicultural Children ’ s Literature Fiction provides insights into some aspects of the culture values, attitudes, ways of living, beliefs

7. Children ’ s Literature Fiction and Non Fiction provides varying perspectives U.S. history is usually told from an European perspective The Native American Perspective is told in multicultural literature

8. Christopher Columbus and Children ’ s Literature Columbus’s arrival on the coast of San Salvador is an event of epochal significance — it signaled the beginning of the Great Age of Exploration.

9. Christopher Columbus and Children ’ s Literature However and unfortunately, the children’s books are one sided. They do not discuss the Native people’s perspectives or what their lives were like before Columbus.

10. Christopher Columbus and Children ’ s Literature What are the explicit and implicit messages that are portrayed in the literature on Christopher Columbus?

11. Solutions Teachers can do many things and teachers can and do make a difference.

12. Solutions Teachers can learn to select culturally authentic books

13. Solutions What are the stereotypes that were prevalent in the past? What are authentic portrayals?

14. Project 1. Read a chapter specific to the cultural group. 2. 2. Choose 5-7 criteria 3. 3. To be systematic in your evaluation of the 5 books, create a chart with the selected criteria.

15. Project — Part 2 1. Read & evaluate 5 titles using the criteria. 2. Write an annotated bibliography for each of your five books.

16. Project — Part 2 Write a short summary using the somebody, wanted, but, and so. How well did it meet the criteria— an authentic portrayal? Would you recommend it and if so identify a general grade level and theme the book would fit under.

17. Project — Part 2 4. Turn in your 5 annotations and your chart with the criteria. 5. Two group members put the annotations together and email them to Prof. Hernandez and I will create the class bibliography.

18. Project — Part 2 6. In class discussion of multiethnic literature. In groups share your 5 books. 5. With the whole class share one of your 5 books.

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