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Chambers, Aidan – Horn Book Magazine, 1982
Suggests that students authoring and publishing books for younger children can produce extraordinary results, not the least of which is the effect on children--the ones who make the books and the ones for whom they are made--as readers of literature. (AEA)
Descriptors: Books, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Literature Appreciation
Peer reviewedBucholz, Arden – History Teacher, 1971
Children who take avid pleasure in history told as a good story more often than not forsake it as adults. History has too often ceased to be a good story and become simply analytical, arid, tedious. (Author)
Descriptors: Books, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Cultural Education
Otty, Nicholas – Times Educational Supplement (London), 1975
Author reported on a school project which has harnessed children's skills and imagination in telling stories to the production of their own books. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Books, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Dialogs (Literary)
Download full textCianciolo, Patricia Jean – 1973
This paper argues that the best way to teach reading to children is through literature that reflects children's own language and what they consider relevant. Only those materials written in a language very similar to that which the child hears and uses himself, the author argues, will serve as the best teaching devices. Since the language of…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Beginning Reading, Books, Child Language
Field, Elinor Whitney, Ed. – 1969
This collection of 52 articles reprinted from the "Horn Book Magazine" (1949-66) is intended to stimulate discussion on all aspects of children's reading and children's books. The articles are collected under seven headings: "Inspiration--How It Comes;""Goals and Guidelines for Writers and Illustrators;""Re-creating Other Times;""The Matter of…
Descriptors: Authors, Books, Childhood Interests, Children
Cook, Elizabeth – 1969
Written for teachers, librarians, students, parents, and other storytellers, this book emphasizes the value and enchantment which children can find in the fabulous stories of four main European traditions--Greek myths and legends, Northern myths and legends, Arthurian Romances, and fairy tales. The four chapters contain (1) discussions of myths,…
Descriptors: Books, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Classical Literature
Young, Tommie M., Ed.; And Others – 1972
One of the goals of the Oral Literature Workshop was to point out to parents the "humanizing" experience that can be found in folk literature and to suggest some ways of using this literature in the lives and development of the child. This report of the Workshop contains: the workshop summary, reading aloud to children, some techniques…
Descriptors: Books, Childhood Interests, Childhood Needs, Childrens Literature
Baker, Frances S. – 1978
Legends can be incorporated into elementary social studies curricula to help students understand how people transmitted history and culture from one generation to another before they learned to read and write. Taga the Great is a legend which helps explain the 16-feet high latte stones on the Mariana Islands, Tinian and Rota. According to legend,…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Books, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature
