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READINGS ABOUT THE
GENRES OF
CHILDREN"S LITERATURE

GENERAL:  
Teaching Genre (Grades 4-8) Tara McCarthy
Scholastic/1996
Literature and the Child (4th Edition) Bernice Cullinan & Lee Galda
Harcourt Brace/1998
Follow the Gleam:  Teaching and Learning Genre with Children  and Young Adults (Part I and II) Anne Devereaux Jordan
Esmont Publishing/1997
BIOGRAPHY:  
   
FANTASY:  
Fantasy Literature in the Elementary Classroom:  Strategies for Reading, Writing, and Responding Monica Edinger
Scholastic/1995
FOLKLORE:  
Folk Groups and Folklore Genres:  An Introduction (Ed.) Elliott Oring
Utah State University Press/1986
   
HISTORICAL FICTION:  
My Backyard History Book
*an older text...but worth the look...
David Weitzman
Little Brown/1975
Activities for Elementary School Social Studies James W. Stockard, Jr.
Waveland Press/1995
Doing History:  Investigating with Children in Elementary and Middle Schools Linda S. Levstik and Keigh C. Barton
Lawrence Erlbaum/1997
The Story of Ourselves:  Teaching History through Children's Literature (Ed) Michael O. Tunnell and Richard Ammon
Heinemann/1993
Understanding American History through Children's Literature:  Grades K-8 Maria A. Perez-Stable and Mary H. Cordier
Oryx/1994
Children's Literature and Social Studies:  Selecting and Using Notable Books in the Classroom (Ed.) Myra Zarnowski and Arlene Gallagher
Kendall-Hunt/1993
Literature-Based Social Studies:  Children's Books and Activities to Enrich the K-5 Curriculum Mildred Knight Laughlin and Patricia Kardaleff
Oryx/1991
INFORMATIONAL: (Nonfiction)  
Using Nonfiction in the Classroom Eileen M. Burke and Susan Mandel Glazer
Scholastic/1994
Using Nonfiction Trade Books in the Elementary Classroom from Ants to Zeppelins (Ed) Evelyn B. Freeman and Diane Goetz Person
NCTE/1992
Nonfiction Matters:  Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8 Stephanie Harvey
Stenhouse/1998
Connecting Informational Children's Books with Content Area Learning Evelyn B. Freeman and Diane Goetz Person
Allyn & Bacon/1998
PICTURE BOOKS:  
Picture This:  Perception & Composition Molly Bang
Little Brown/1991
Using Picture Storybooks to Teach Literary Devices Susan Hall
Oryx/1994
Beyond Words:  Picture Books for Older Readers and Writers (Ed) Susan Benedict & Lenore Carlisle
Heinemann/1992
Looking at Picture Books John Warren Stewig
Highsmith Press/1995
Words about Pictures:
The Narrative Art of Children's Picture Books
Perry Nodelman
University of Georgia Press/1988
POETRY:  
   
REALISTIC FICTION: (Contemporary realism)  
   
SCIENCE FICTION: