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Moore, Tara – Children's Literature in Education, 2023
Students in the English Language Arts classroom have access to more author commentary than ever. While following authors on social media may deepen students' engagement with their assigned reading, it also threatens to subdue students' own interpretations of the authors' texts. This essay explains how educators can introduce basic aspects of…
Descriptors: Authors, Childrens Literature, Death, Literary Criticism
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Yang, Lichung – Children's Literature in Education, 2017
A well-versed writer on the limitations and possibilities of the English language, Seuss follows the conventional primers the wrong way, not by retracing the tradition of the genre, but by working his way against the current. Drawing upon Jean-Jacques Lecercle's notion of nonsense, this essay is a small attempt to examine three of Dr. Seuss's…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Literary Genres, Teaching Methods, Rhyme
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Cantrell, Sarah K. – Children's Literature in Education, 2010
This article examines the multiple worlds in Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy in light Pierre Bourdieu's "space of possibles" and the combination of chance and choice that impact Lyra and Will's decisions. Rather than viewing chance or destiny as disempowering, this article considers how the protagonists' choices also encourage…
Descriptors: Fantasy, Figurative Language, Teaching Methods, Childrens Literature
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Strong-Wilson, Teresa – Children's Literature in Education, 2008
We are made up of stories: the stories we hear, the stories we tell. Intertextual connections form through repeatedly hearing stories, many of which stem back to childhood. This paper foregrounds a teachers-as-readers literature circle in which a group of Indigenous teachers in Canada discussed, among other titles, Rafe Martin's "The Rough…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Indigenous Populations, Reader Text Relationship, Foreign Countries
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Koeller, S. A. – Children's Literature in Education, 1988
Argues against ritualized approaches to literature. Endorses four aesthetic teaching stances which vary the conversations that can occur between student and student, student and teacher, and student and literature, and which pursue a "playful" literature curriculum, value the unexpected, and allow conversations where children talk their…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Intellectual Development