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| Authors! Authors! Authors! Series 21 |
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| CI 810 3 Credits | Course # | K4100KG Graduate | |||||||||||||||
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Course description
For the 21st year, nationally recognized authors and illustrators of popular children's books will be sharing ways to use their books to motivate children from diverse populations in the reading-writing classroom. Featured speakers will bring their unique insights into the writing, illustrating, and publishing process as well as a personal look into their backgrounds. A balanced and integrated approach to teaching reading that supports literacy development for students of all abilities will be shared. Designed for K-8 teachers and media specialists. You will:
- Gain information about the background of each of the authors/illustrators.
- Understand how the individual author's background influences his or her writing.
- Identify the characteristics and qualities of good children's literature in relation to meeting the needs of today's diverse classroom.
- Plan activities for the classroom using books written by each author and input from the author.
- Develop classroom materials based on the class, which will motivate students in the area of reading and writing.
- Learn about children's literature awards and how to set up an award committee in your classroom.
- Learn about the lives of authors and illustrators who have affected children through their writing.
- Learn how to support English language learners in reading activities.
- Find out how the Internet can be a valuable resource in learning about children's books and their authors.
- Identify the characteristics and qualities of good children's literature.
Authors include:Sharon Creech, author of the 1995 Newbery Medal winner Walk Two Moons and the 2001 Newbery Honor Book The Wanderer. Has also authored Love That Dog, Bloomability, Absolutely Normal Chaos, Chasing Redbird, A Fine, Fine School, and Fishing in the Air. Ms. Creech lives in New Jersey. www.sharoncreech.com Oct 20Jane Yolen, the "Hans Christian Andersen of America," is an author and editor of almost 300 books that include folklore, fantasy, science fiction, and poetry. She wrote Owl Moon and The Emperor and the Kite, both Cladecott Medal winners, as well as the Commander Toad series, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight, The Devil's Arithmetic, Here's A Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry. Ms. Yolen lives in Massachusetts and Scotland. www.janeyolen.com Nov 17Henry Cole, illustrator, author, and former teacher. Authored Some Smug Slug, Jack's Garden, On Meadowview Street, Boston Tea Party, Bad Boys Get Henpecked, Jack and Jill's Treehouse, Chicken Butt, Oink?, Shiver Me Letters. Mr. Cole lives in Florida. www.henrycole.net Dec 8Judy Sierra, author, poet, folklorist and master storyteller has written Antarctic Antics and Wild About Books, is a recipient of the E.B. White Read Aloud Award, plus has written Born to Read, Schoolyard Rhymes, The Sleepy Little Alphabet, Mind Your Manners, B.B. Wolf. Ms. Sierra lives in Oregon. www.judysierra.net Jan 26Shelley Gill is the author of books on Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. Alaska, Hawai'i, Sitka Rose, Big Blue, The Big Buck Adventure, Kiana's Iditarod. Ms. Gill lives in Alaska. www.shelleygill.com |BFeb 16Mike Thaler, America's "Riddle King," and author of Teacher From The Black Lagoon series. He has published over 200 books including The Little League Team from the Black Lagoon, The Teacher From The Black Lagoon. Mr. Thaler lives in Oregon. www.mikethaler.com Mar 16Cindy Neuschwander, author, teacher, and math consultant has written Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone: A Math Adventure, Sir Cumference and the First Round Table, and Mummy Math: An Adventure in Geometry. She lives in California. Apr 13Elizabeth Rusch, has authored, Will It Blow? Become a Volcano Detective at Mount St. Helens and The Planet Hunter: The Story Behind What Happened to Pluto which were both fnalists for the Oregon Book Award. A Day With No Crayons won the Elose Jarvis McGraw Award. Ms. Rusch lives in Oregon. www.elizabethrusch.com Apr 27
Offered cooperatively by Portland State University and The Innovative Northwest Teacher.For registration call 1-800-338-TINT or 503-636-0717, email tint@easystreet.net, or go to www.tint-edu.com.
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Class is offered cooperatively by PSU and another entity and has a split fee structure |