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Direct linkMay, Laura; Crisp, Thomas; Bingham, Gary E.; Schwartz, Renée S.; Pickens, Mario T.; Woodbridge, Kate – Reading Research Quarterly, 2020
The authors conducted a qualitative content analysis of the 400 National Science Teachers Association Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 from 2010-2017 selected for their instructional usefulness in science classrooms. The authors examined these expert-recommended science trade books to better understand their design and to identify…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Science Instruction, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
Subedi, Binaya – Gender and Education, 2020
This article advocates for the need to develop a more critical approach to theorizing human rights curriculum and critiques dominant/western liberal interpretation of human rights discourse that claims to be humanitarian and benevolent. Liberal approach to (global) human rights discussion places emphasis on individual rights and views concepts…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Teaching Methods, Educational Theories, Curriculum Development
MacKay, Kathryn Lake; Ricks, Paul H.; Young, Terrell A. – Reading Teacher, 2017
This article presents a way to use award-winning books as mentor texts for very young writers. Books were selected as mentor texts from the winners of the Australian Early Childhood Children's Book of the Year Award and the American Theodor Seuss Geisel Award. The authors explain the value of using award-winning texts in the classroom and describe…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Mentors, Young Children
Clabough, Jeremiah; Wooten, Deborah – Social Education, 2016
Steve Sheinkin's "The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights" recounts the explosion at a U.S. Navy base in the summer of 1944 that claimed 320 lives. It is also a story of African American resistance against prejudice, segregation, and injustice in the armed forces during World War II. The book was a 2015…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Civil Rights, African Americans, Racial Bias
Lewison, Mitzi; Heffernan, Lee – Voices from the Middle, 2009
This study focuses on ways that sixth graders reacted to the question of book awards and awards in general, positioning themselves as reflective inquirers as they engaged in the regular sixth-grade beginning-of-the-year curriculum--reading books that have been nominated for the state book award. The authors focus on four dispositions of critical…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Awards, Grade 6, Middle Schools
Futch, Lynn – Library Media Connection, 2004
Many state standards require teaching students about award-winning books, which can be a daunting task considering the number of Caldecott Medal winners. This author, a library media specialist at Mill Creek Elementary in Statesboro, Georgia, describes an efficient, creative, and energizing strategy she devised that enabled her to teach the…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Elementary Schools, Books, Awards
