Samir and Yonatan

Samir and Yonatan
Author: Daniella Carmi
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2000
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780439135238

Samir, is sent to an Israeli hospital where he makes friends with an Israeli boy, who travels with him to Mars, and finds peace about his brother's death.

Samir and Yonatan

Samir and Yonatan
Author: Daniella Carmi
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages:
Release: 2002-12-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780606257497

Samir, a Palestinian boy, is sent for surgery to an Israeli hospital where he has two otherworldly experiences, making friends with an Israeli boy, Yonatan, and traveling with him to Mars where Samir finds peace over his younger brother's death in the war.

Building Character Through Multicultural Literature

Building Character Through Multicultural Literature
Author: Rosann Jweid
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780810850422

A comprehensive reference to 50 titles that will help children cultivate ethics, assume personal responsibility, and practice moral judgment in unfamiliar cultural contexts.

Family Values Through Children's Literature and Activities, Grades 4-6

Family Values Through Children's Literature and Activities, Grades 4-6
Author: Patricia Roberts
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780810850576

This resource provides teachers, librarians, parents, and others who work with children ages 9 - 12 with an annotated bibliography of children's books that contain characters who display positive family oriented values in their relationships with others. Sample activities and lessons related to the books in the bibliography will help children in responding to the thoughts and feelings of selected characters as they strive to understand their own thoughts and actions about family oriented values. Educators and parents can initiate the activities as presented or use them as a starting point for their own lessons. Parents and educators, including homeschooling parents and instructors in religious settings, will benefit from this helpful resource.

The World Through Children's Books

The World Through Children's Books
Author: Susan Stan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2002
Genre: Children
ISBN: 0810841983

The World through Children's Books is a valuable and easy-to-use tool for librarians, teachers and others who seek to promote international understanding through children's literature. The annotated bibliography, organized geographically by world region and country, contains nearly 700 books representing 73 countries. Sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY).

Booktalking Around the World

Booktalking Around the World
Author: Sonja Cole
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2010-10-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1598846140

This text contains convenient, ready-to-go booktalks for contemporary fiction and nonfiction books set in every continent around the globe, useful for librarians and other educators of grades three through nine. A public librarian introducing young readers to stories from around the world. A social studies teacher wanting to offer students extra credit on a unit about ancient Greece. A Spanish teacher who needs to generate some excitement and interest about Hispanic culture. All of these educators can achieve their goals by utilizing the internationally themed booktalk suggestions in this text—Booktalking Around the World: Great Global Reads for Ages 9–14. This collection of booktalks and book lists is designed to be an invaluable resource for teachers as well as school and public librarians seeking geographically themed booktalks for newer books published from 2000–2010. Because studying the countries of the world is a major part of most school curricula, this book will support or extend this important curricular area. All the booktalks in this collection are aimed at children aged 9–14. All seven continents are represented, but the United States is excluded.

Reading Globally, K–8

Reading Globally, K–8
Author: Barbara A. Lehman
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2010-09-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412973929

In Reading Globally, K-8, the authors make the case for why it is necessary to be globally literate and multiculturally aware in today's shrinking world, and they provide the tools teachers need to incorporate appropriate reading selections into primary and secondary school classrooms. By using books from or about other countries, teachers empower students to view the world in a more positive manner, enriching and broadening their students' lives, and ultimately preparing them for life in a global economy and culture. This reader-friendly resource guides teachers and reading programme coordinators in selecting quality books for their classrooms, incorporating global literature into different content areas, and facilitating the discussions that follow. Practical guidance is provided on how to: - Integrate the reading of global texts across the curriculum, with specific application to language arts, social studies, science, maths, and the arts - Locate and evaluate the authenticity and literary merit of potential books, avoiding those that depict stereotypes - Get started!-with an annotated list of children's books, samples of student work, and classroom vignettes from teachers.

Reading History

Reading History
Author: Janet Allen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2010-04-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0199955050

Having trouble interesting your students in history or the history textbook? Concerned about the ability of your students to actually read the textbook? Learn ways to tie reading strategies to the learning of history, and discover sources that will help history come alive for your students. Nationally known literacy advocate Janet Allen discusses strategies for teaching nonfiction reading using Joy Hakim's award winning A History of US series as the center of a blossoming campaign among educators to integrate literacy and history. Classroom tested at a variety of grade levels, real student samples are interspersed throughout the book providing clearer understanding of the strategies in action.

Promoting Great Reads to Improve Teen Reading

Promoting Great Reads to Improve Teen Reading
Author: Lucy Schall
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2015-02-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1440834938

Support current educational initiatives with a ready-to-use tool that will help you with selection, motivation, and skill building relative to titles published within the last five years. New demands by Common Core and other national and state standards mean teachers and librarians need support in pairing high-interest content with skill building that speaks to those standards. This hands-on, research-based resource will help. Covering 100 titles, it guides you to topics, themes, values, and activities that meet national and state standards. The book's organization—by genres, topics, and themes—will enable librarians to serve customers with specific requests and help teachers build thematic units. Focusing on recent young adult fiction and nonfiction (2010–2014), the guide offers a succinct plot summary, links to popular themes and genres, indication of reading levels, and an engaging booktalk for each title. It also includes guidelines for further promoting each book and extending knowledge through discussion. The author, a former middle and high school teacher, demonstrates how you can foster close reading through paraphrasing, comparison, and response and explains how to strengthen critical thinking among teens. Lists of related titles and notes on gender appeal can be used for readers' advisory.

Teaching the Literature of Today's Middle East

Teaching the Literature of Today's Middle East
Author: Allen Webb
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136837140

Showing how to teach the literature of today’s Middle East, this book offers teachers a powerful resource for helping students to think deeply and critically about the politics and culture of the Middle East through literary engagements.