In this essay, we discuss how teachers and students can use children's literature and literature-based activities to intentionally foster hope. The previous years have proved to be challenging on many fronts. Teachers of all levels are focusing on ways to support academic development in an oft-shifting context. Drawing on research using…

Interpretive questioning techniques can be used with folktales to enhance children's insight into human problems. (MKM)

Discusses various documents in the ERIC system that suggest ways that reading teachers can work with children of divorced parents. (FL)

Argues that bibliotherapy can be used to help children develop reading comprehension skill and to use that skill to understand their own personal and social development in a better way. Provides a list of books suitable for bibliotherapy. (FL)

Annotates books in which characters are involved in learning a second language. Argues that such books can be useful to students who are doing so themselves and to their classmates. (FL)

Trade books and teacher resources for the library are recommended for ten different curricular areas. (MKM)

Argues that children will make mistakes in interpreting adult activities in reading biographies, although their role-taking abilities improve as they grow older. Gives suggestions to authors for making biography more comprehensible and useful to the child. Bibliography. (RW)

Presents a list of books with nonviolent themes which may be used as alternatives to the violence children see on television. (MKM)

Explains how read-aloud sessions can be developed in ways that help children deal with common concerns. Offers an example. (FL)