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Johnson, Melissa C. – CEA Forum, 2015
This essay is grounded in the scholarship of teaching and learning and will focus specifically on the ways in which the Harry Potter books highlight the diversity of learning and teaching styles; privilege active experiential learning and problem solving over passive rote learning; and emphasize the benefits of collaboration over competition.…
Descriptors: Literature, Books, Fiction, Teaching Styles
Miller, Winifred – Elementary English, 1975
Specific steps for developing a reading and research unit on dragons is described. (JH)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Books, Childrens Literature, Creative Dramatics
Cullinan, Bernice E., Ed. – 1987
Intended to help teachers decide which books to start with when incorporating children's literature into the reading program and to show them how to use these books with a variety of readers, this book provides a rationale and guidance for using "real books" to teach reading. Titles and authors of the articles included are as follows: (1)…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Beginning Reading, Books, Characterization