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Selecting High Quality Urban Children’s Literature to Engage Beginning Readers
Jane Fleming
Erikson Institute
October 18, 2008
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Choosing texts: Assessing text quality
Selecting High Quality Children’s Literature with Urban Settings and Themes
1. Overview of criteria
2. Practice reviews
3. Share strong and weak examples
4. Critique of images and availability
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Brainstorm book titles or authors(contemporary realistic fiction)
Picture Books Short chapter/ Short chapter/Single Series
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What prompted the project?
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What’s so important about familiar texts?• Emergent literacy skills/oral language and literacy
– Concepts about print– Linguistic Awareness– Relating speech to print
• Familiar schema for story comprehension
• Maintaining interest and motivation
• Seeing self, family, community represented and valued
• Authors and illustrators like me
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Development of the rating scale
• Guidelines for high quality children’s literature– Huck (1997)– Cullinan (1994)– Norton (2003)– Temple (1998)– Tomlinson (1996)
• Hefflin (2001)• Boutte (2002)• 10 Quick Ways to Avoid Racism and Sexism
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Characteristics of high quality picture books with urban settings
General characteristicsCover, character, plot, theme, language, illustrations
Urban-specific characteristicsAccuracy of charactersFamiliar Context Familiar Language Authentic Urban Scenery Diversity of CharacterizationDiversity of Setting
(see handout for details)
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Accuracy of characters
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Familiar Context
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Familiar Language
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Authentic Urban Scenery
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Diversity of Characterization
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Diversity of Setting
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Book Exploration
• Take time to review a range of books• Use general and urban characteristics of quality
1. Choose one excellent example to discuss
2. Choose one not-as-great example (for contrast)
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Sharing Selections
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Discussing race, class, and equity in children’s literature
• Race – What do you notice?Images of people of color, range of diversity in books with urban settings
Presence of racial stereotype– What do Latino “cities” look like?– Where do we see Asian Americans?– Where are Native Americans, biracial characters, others?
• Class – What do you notice?White privilege in urban children’s literature
– Where do white people in the city live?– What do white people do?
• Equity – Where do you see these texts and stories?– Exposure to familiar settings, authors, and illustrators in typical basal series– Availability of urban titles in big box stores and other outlets– Developmental gaps in availability of texts – e.g., short chapter books
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Discussing race, class, and equity in children’s literature
• Race – What do you notice?Images of African Americans and other people of color
Presence of racial stereotype– What do Latino “cities” look like?– Where do we see Asian Americans?– Where are Native Americans, biracial characters, others?
• Class – What do you notice?White privilege in urban children’s literature
– Where do white people in the city live?– What do white people do?
• Equity – Where do you see these texts and stories?– Exposure to familiar settings, authors, and illustrators in basal series– Developmental gaps in availability of resources – short chapter books
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Changes over time –e.g. Time Warp Trio