BIBLIOGRAPHY Here are some books that teachers might find of value.
READING
Children’s Literature in the Classroom: Weaving Charlotte’s Web Edited By Janet Hickman and Bernice Cullinan. Christopher Gordon Publishers
Fabulous series of assays on using literature in all aspects of education.
Children’s Literature in the Reading Program Bernice Cullinnan, editor Published by the International Reading Association
Practical teaching tips. Many different viewpoints and fabulous bibliographies.
Focus Units in Literature: A Handbook for Elementary School Teachers Joy F. Moss National Council of Teachers of English
Literacy through Literature by Terry D. Johnson and Daphne R. Louis Published by Heinemann
The title explains it all. Simple, direct, effective.
Read for the Fun of It by Caroline Feller Bauer This Way to Books by Caroline Feller Bauer
ON WRITING:
The Art of Teaching Writing Lucy McCormick Calkins – Heinemann – 1986
Writing: Teachers and Children at Work Donald H. Graves – Heinemann – 1983
If You’re Trying To Teaching Kids To Write, You’ve Got to Have This Book Marjorie Frank – Incentive Publications – 1979
Practical Strategies for the Teaching of Thinking Barry K. Beyer – Allyn and Bacon – 1987
PERSONALLY MOTIVATING
The One Minute Teacher – Spencer Johnson – William Morrow – 1986 Writing down the Bones – Natalie Goldberg Shambhala – 1986 Wild Mind Natalie Goldberg – Bantam – 1990 Long Quiet Highway – Natalie Goldberg
Making Shapely Fiction – Jerome Stern – Norton and Company – 1991 SOURCE MATERIAL FOR STORIES Treasury of American Folklore – Edited by B. A. Botkin – 1944 Treasury of African Folklore by Harold Courlander – Marlowe and Company – 1996 Afro-American Folktales – Selected by Roger D Abrahams – Pantheon – 1985
The Hero with a Thousand Faces – Joseph Campbell – Princeton Univ. Press – 1949
Favorite Fairy Tales Series – Little Brown and Company Mythology – Edith Hamilton – The New American Library – 1940 The Chicken Soup for the Soul Series – Compiled by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen – Health Communication, Inc. – 1993 Leprechaun Tales – Kathleen Green – Lippincott Press – 1968 African Myths and Legends – Kathleen Arnott – Henry Z. Walck, Inc. – 1962 The Power of Myth – Joseph Campbell – Anchor Books – 1991 Homespun America – Brockway and Winer – Simon and Schuster – 1958 Tales of an Ashanti Father – Peggy Appiah – Beacon Press – 1967 American Fairy Tales – L. Frank Baum – Books of Wonder Favorite Folktales from Around the World. Edited by Jane Yolen – Pantheon . Also, any collection of Aesop’s Fables, Grimm Fairy Tales and Fairy Tales by Perrault and/or Hans Christian Andersen