"Teaching Literacy through Historical Children's Books"—Notes from the UNLV/CCSD Cohort Presentation

The below notes accompany the presentation delivered to participants in the UNLV/CCSD Cohort Program on December 12, 2008. Thank you to Sue Hendrix and Barbara Johnson for facilitating the presentation.

Click here for presentation slides (a video of the presentation appears below).

General notes of interest (from Courtney):

• Always teach literacy.
• Always use cross-curricular standards-based objectives.
• Use PVC pipe to create telephone headsets so students can hear themselves reading.
• As an alternative to whole class brainstorming, have students engage in small group brainstorming.

Resources mentioned during the presentation:

• Bloom's Taxonomy
• Accelerated Reader
• Fourth-Grade Hump
• Museum in a Book
• Declaration of Independence by Rod Gragg
• Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery by Rod Gragg
• From Fields of Fire and Glory: Letters of the Civil War by Rod Gragg
  
• The ABC's of Evaluation by Sandra Schurr: A book containing cross-curricular ideas for alternative assessment methods.
  
• Book lists for historical children's literature (all are in Excel format)
  
• Native Americans of the Colonial Era/Technology Integration—booklist
• Colonial America/Simulations—booklist
• American Revolution/Primary Sources—booklist
• Civil War/Digital Storytelling—booklist
• Westward Expansion/Children's Literature—booklist
• Civil Rights/Service Learning—booklist
• Immigration/Collaborative Biographies—booklist
• The 1930s/Arts Integration—booklist
• Social bookmarking
• Recommended sites:
• Social_Studies and Native_Americans
• "What is Social Bookmarking?": Training Videos
• Introduction to Social Bookmarking
  
• Bundling Tags in Delicious
• Procuring a Delicious Account
  
• Links to teacher's guides
• Patty Reed's Doll
  
• Sallie Fox
  
• Little House Series (inc. Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie, On the Banks of Plum Creek, The Long Winter)
  
• Exploration Picture Books (e.g., Apples to Oregon, Sarah, Plain and Tall, Conestoga Wagons, Daily Life in a Covered Wagon, You Wouldn't Want to Live in a Wild West Town, America at the Tine of Lewis and Clark)