Approaches to Literature Through AuthorsBloomsbury 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 |
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