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    Semester 96-2 Session: Intersession
    EDUC
    465 - 4 Children's Literature
    Section: D2.00
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    Scheduled Final Exam: No
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    Instructor: M. Zola
    Office: 8630mpc
    Tel: 291-3259
    Fax: 291-3203
    E-mail: Meguido_Zola@sfu.ca
    PREREQUISITE
    60 credit hours
    COURSE DESCRIPTION
    Children's literature? Children's literature? Children's literature? Is there, in fact, something that can be
    legitimately called children's literature? If there is, is it different from other forms of literature and, if so, why and in
    what ways? And does it have its own standards and yardstick of excellence?
    Why bring literature and children together, anyway? And which books should we bring to which children. And when?
    -- is there, for instance, a way of fitting book to child (or child to book) like the glass slipper to Cinderella. And to
    what ends? And in what different ways?
    These and related questions are surely at the very centre of the educational enterprise, both at home and at school, from
    the earliest years of infancy to the last stages of adolescence. And the answers to these questions speak to our most basic
    notions of what it is to be human, what it is to be educated. Or, as Jean-Jacques Rousseau put it in his Confessions: "I do
    not know how I learned to read. I only remember my first books and their effect on me; it is from my earliest reading that
    I date the unbroken consciousness of my own existence.
    OBJECTIVES
    • Get in touch with and reflect on your own stories and story experiences through childhood and adolescence.
    • Ponder wether there is, in fact, something that can legitimately be called 'children's literature'.
    • Learn to survey children's literature through a study of genre; and examine some major genres - e.g., folk & fairy tale,
    the picture book, verse & poetry, the novel, etc.
    • Learn to look at children's books according to their fit to children's stages and sequences of development.
    • Learn to examine children's books through their themes and issues.
    • Critically examine why and how children and books should be brought together.
    • Learn about story and storytelling.
    • Learn about reading and reading aloud.
    REQUIREMENTS
    The course will comprise a range and variety of learning experiences. These include: individual study, research, and
    field-work with children; focussed practice of instructional strategies and procedures, with peer review and feedback;
    small group and whole-class discussion, projects, and presentations; lectures, workshops, and demonstrations.
    Course Requirements comprise the following:
    • Regular class attendance and participation
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    * Completion of assignments
    • Completion of Readings ?
    * Demonstration of competency in the fulfillment of selected
    assignments.
    READINGS
    A list of supplementary readings will be made available at the first class.
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    R EQ RE C
    0140468811 ?
    Trelease, Jim
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    Penguin
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    The New Read-Aloud Handbook
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    0903355361 ?
    Chambers, Aidan
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    Thimble Press
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    The Reading Environment
    0140119779 ?
    Stone, Elizabeth ?
    Penguin
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    Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins

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