Approaches to Literature Through Authors

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Bloomsbury Academic, 1993 M04 14 - 237 pages
After fourteen years of success in a K-6 school and a K-8 magnet school, the author shares the methods and techniques for using the works of popular or important authors and award-winning illustrators to teach students reading skills for recognizing styles, themes, and subjects. In addition, using this approach affords educators the unique opportunity of sharing the enjoyment of literature and appreciation for stylistic technique.

Contents

An Author Approach to Literature
1
The Caldecott Club
10
The Cleary Club
55
Books by Beverly Cleary
73
Shifting Levels of Fantasy
112
A Literary Family Reunion
160
Cynthia Voigt
170
Student Resources
182
Shakespeare His World and Ours
184
Recipes for an Elizabethan Feast
190
Shakespearean References to Flowers
197
Will You Write WellA Primary Creative Writing
203
Shakespeare Notable and QuotableAn Intermediate
210
Multicultural Infusions in Othello and Antony
218
Resources for Units in Chapter 7
228
Copyright

About the author (1993)

MARY ELIZABETH WILDBERGER is a nationwide consultant in media arts. She received an M.A. in instructional technology from Towson State University, Towson, Maryland, and is a member of the American Library Association and the American Association of School Librarians. Ms. Wildberger is a contributor to School Library Media Activities Monthly and has authored curriculum guides for the Maryland State Department of Education. In 1975, she won an Emmy from the Washington DC Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for her contributions to the public television series Once Upon a Town, and is a past recipient of the ALA John Cotton Dana award.

Bibliographic information

TitleApproaches to Literature Through Authors
Volume 4 of Oryx reading motivation series
AuthorMary E. Wildberger
Editionillustrated
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, 1993
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized19 May 2007
ISBN0897747763, 9780897747769
Length237 pages
  
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