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It is beautiful to dream of imagination taking wing, unfettered by the constraints of grades or rubrics. Classroom learning should always include time for students to brainstorm, envision, dream, and think impossible thoughts. Teachers make this happen as they challenge students’ imaginations. The White Queen took the teacher’s role when she shared with Alice, “Why, […]

A middle school English teacher, Joyelle Ranee-Fisher, paired a realistic CPV with the autobiographical book A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer, a true story about a terrible case of child abuse in California. She wanted her students to think critically about keeping secrets from adults, particularly in crisis situations. She used this CPV at […]

Picture books may serve as excellent resources for helping adolescent students learn more about cultural differences because of one of the basic functions of children’s literature. For centuries the books used to teach reading have also served as a means of transmitting cultural values, concerning areas such as religion, work, and patriotism, to the youngest […]

The picture books appeared to be effective tools to support the students’ understanding of the novel and of Igbo culture, and by extension, to help them analyze their own cultural practices in relationship to the cultural practices of others. Women’s rights, children’s rights, religious practices, and the impact of colonialism all became central topics of […]

The impact that the picture books made on my students became even more apparent when the students began reading and discussing Things Fall Apart. The picture books helped the students contextualize vocabulary and cultural traditions and therefore helped shape class discussions around cultural ideas rather than solely around a literary analysis of the text. Our […]