HUM 210 : Understanding our World Through the Arts

This resource uniquely offers preservice and inservice teachers templates for using quality children's literature to implement themes across grades K-8. The text sets are carefully selected to facilitate discussion, analysis, and problem solving across the grades.

This book shows teachers how to lead students to become caring citizens as they read and respond to quality children's literature. The book is rooted in the belief that, by using picture books, novels, poetry, and nonfiction, teachers can enrich learning with compassion and empathy as students make connections to texts, to others and to the world.

This handbook has been written to promote the wider use of literature, particularly fiction, as a portal to cross-curriculum learning in the primary to lower secondary years. It is designed to be used in support of literacy strategies that develop reading ability in students who have acquired a level of reading independence.

This book will help teachers make the most of high-quality children's literature in their writing instruction. The authors show teachers how to help students become confident, accomplished writers by using literature as their foundation.

Big Ideas for Little Kids includes everything a teacher, a parent, or a college student needs to teach philosophy to elementary school children from picture books. Written in a clear and accessible style, the book explains why it is important to allow young children access to philosophy during primary-school education.

Fiction provides the perfect conduit for the experiences of refugees so that young refugee students feel their experiences are validated, and their peers come to understand their situation. As more and more people flee wars, violence and political oppression, this book gives teachers both pedagogical support and knowledge of the resources and shows how they can tackle this challenging topic.