From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2010-01-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 110115246X

Three-time Newbery Honor author Jacqualine Woodson explores race and sexuality through the eyes of a compelling narrator Melanin Sun has a lot to say. But sometimes it's hard to speak his mind, so he fills up notebooks with his thoughts instead. He writes about his mom a lot--they're about as close as they can be, because they have no other family. So when she suddenly tells him she's gay, his world is turned upside down. And if that weren't hard enough for him to accept, her girlfriend is white. Melanin Sun is angry and scared. How can his mom do this to him--is this the end of their closeness? What will his friends think? And can he let her girlfriend be part of their family?

From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages:
Release: 1997-10-01
Genre: Afro-Americans
ISBN: 9780606276429

A fourteen-year-old African American boy struggles to come to terms with his mother's homosexuality.

Reading Without Limits

Reading Without Limits
Author: Maddie Witter
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2013-01-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1118483758

Imagine a classroom where all students are engaged in highly rigorous and fun learning every single day. That classroom can be yours starting tomorrow. You don’t have to be a reading specialist to pick up this book. Anyone who wants to dramatically improve reading achievement will find helpful suggestions. You might be a third grade teacher whose students have mastered decoding, and you are ready to build their comprehension. Or you might be a high school science teacher whose students aren’t yet reading on level with deep critical thinking. This book is for you. It doesn’t matter whether you are a public, charter, private, or alternative education teacher: the Reading Without Limits program works in each one. Along with hundreds of ready-to-use teaching strategies, Reading Without Limits comes with a supplemental website where teachers can download even more resources for free! Reading Without Limits is the first book offered in the KIPP Educator Series. KIPP, or the Knowledge is Power Program, began in 1994. As of Fall 2012, there are 125 KIPP schools in 20 states and the District of Columbia serving nearly 40,000 students climbing the mountain to and through college.

The Coretta Scott King Awards, 1970-2009

The Coretta Scott King Awards, 1970-2009
Author: Henrietta M. Smith
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2009-06-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838935842

Gathers together the best African American children's literature.

Innovations in English Language Arts Teacher Education

Innovations in English Language Arts Teacher Education
Author: Heidi L. Hallman
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2017-02-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1787140504

The field of English language arts teacher education has experienced change over the past two decades. Changes in the discipline have produced a much more expansive understanding of literacy and of what teachers of English language arts do. This volume will focus on innovations in English language arts teacher education.

Many Peoples, One Land

Many Peoples, One Land
Author: Alethea K. Helbig
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2000-10-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313064997

Celebrating the wealth of quality multicultural literature recently published for children and young adults, this valuable resource examines the fiction, oral tradition, and poetry from four major ethnic groups in the United States. Each of these genres is considered in turn for the literature dealing with African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native-American Indians. Taking up where their earlier volume This Land is Our Land left off, Helbig and Perkins have teamed up once again to identify and expertly evaluate more than 500 multicultural books published from 1994 through 1999. Both considered authorities in the field of children's literature, the two of them personally selected, read, and evaluated all the books included here. Their insightful annotations help readers carefully consider both literary standards such as plot development, characterization, and style, as well as cultural values as they are represented in these cited works. Each entry also indicates the suggested age and grade level appropriateness of the work. With the proliferation and ever increasing popularity of multicultural literature for children and young adults, this sensitively written volume will serve as an invaluable collection development tool. Teachers, as well as librarians, will find the comprehensiveness and organization of this bibliography helpful as a guide in selecting appropriate materials for classroom use. Even students will find this book easy to use, with its five indexes identifying works by title, writer, illustrator, grade level, and subject. Public libraries and school media centers will find much use for Many Peoples, One Land.

Encyclopedia of African-American Literature

Encyclopedia of African-American Literature
Author: Wilfred D. Samuels
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Total Pages: 1999
Release: 2015-04-22
Genre: African American authors
ISBN: 1438140592

Presents a reference on African American literature providing profiles of notable and little-known writers and their works, literary forms and genres, critics and scholars, themes and terminology and more.

Cultural Journeys

Cultural Journeys
Author: Pamela S. Gates
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2010-08-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1442206888

As multicultural education is becoming integral to the core curriculum, teachers often implement this aspect into their courses through literature. However, standards and criteria to teach and promote active discussion about this literature are sparse. Cultural Journeys introduces pre-service and experienced teachers to the use of literature to promote active discussions that lead students to think about racial diversity. More than just an annotated list of books for children, Pamela S. Gates and Dianne L. Hall Mark provide systematic guidelines that teachers can use throughout their careers to evaluate multicultural literature for students in grades K-8. At the same time, the text leads the reader to a deeper understanding of how to use multicultural literature throughout the entire curriculum and not just during specially designated months or time periods. With the example unit plans and extensive annotated bibliography, this book is a valuable resource that pre-service teachers will utilize when they begin teaching and in-service teachers will reference repeatedly during their planning periods.

Children's Book Award Handbook

Children's Book Award Handbook
Author: Diana F. Marks
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2006-03-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0897899911

Diana Marks looks at children's and young adult book awards in depth. The history, award criteria, and a biography of the person behind each of the well-known awards is included. Also of interest are lists of the winners in each category, teaching and exploration activities, reproducible teaching aides, and a timeline of events leading up to the establishment of the award. Information about well-known awards is accompanied by information on the lesser known, Pura Belpré, Jane Addams, etc. Information is formatted in quick, easy-to-read tables and charts suitable for classroom duplication. Although some of this information is available online, this is a one stop handbook that contains lesser-known awards, and offers activities for enriching the study of each award, whether well-known or not. Grades K-8.