The dramatic increase in immigration since the 1960s has signaled the need for a greater immigrant-sensitive curriculum. This article describes how picture books can be used to teach immigrant-sensitive curriculum to students. Also included is a list of cited children's books.doi:10.3200/TSSS....
All of Chin's books are spectacular and this book which investigates the geology of the Grand Canyon is no exception. The story follows a child and an adult on a walk through the magnificence of the Grand Canyon, detailing how the layers were formed, the plants and wildlife that live in ...
Oh, people. David LaRochelle and Mike Wohnoutka have a history of creating wonderful, engaging books. For example and example and example: Today, I bring you the latest David LaRochelle/Mike Wohnoutka Collaboration. I am not the only one who is a big fan of this book. This is what Bo...
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Tracey Derwing is a professor of TESL and co-director of the Prairie Metropolis Centre for Research on Immigration, Integration and Diversity, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She and Murray Munro have researched the extent to which L2 accents interfere with second language learners...
Without further ado, here are just a few of the phenomenal picture books of 2021. I hope you’ll seek them out and savor them. Change Sings by Amanda Gorman, illustrated by Loren Long A young girl totes her guitar past a mural of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and ...
2. Shaun Tan,The Arrival(2006) because it’s a richly imagined, beautifully rendered, wordless graphic narrative of immigration, dislocation, and hope. 3. Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson,The Story of Ferdinand(1936) because, with a mix of humor and gravity, it sustainsmany very different interpr...
If Francisco, banned from the United States because of the Spanish-American war, hadn't fooled the immigration authorities by slipping in through "the back door" of Mexico, the world would never have heard of the likes of Martin Sheen and his famous sons, Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez. ...
The closing contribution by Siobhán Parkinson—author, translator, and director of the Irish publishing house Little Island Books—reveals the commercial and cultural pressures resisting the immigration of international children's literature into the Anglo-American world. More importantly, however, it ...
I need to apologize. This post will be the longest one yet with the most suggestions of which picture books to use for something. But it makes sense; theme is one of those things that is present in so many great picture books, so when I started going t