A Window into History: Family Memory in Children's Literature

By Eleanor Kay MacDonald

This is an excellent resource for objectives-based education. Because the foundation of the social studies curriculum is the family, A Window into History gives teachers an engaging method for introducing students to books that are structured as personal narratives of family histories. These books, both fiction and nonfiction, combined with highly appropriate activities and projects, build themes around community, history, and cultural or social differences. In addition, the variety of cultural backgrounds in the titles makes A Window into History especially valuable in programs that emphasize multicultural issues. Recommended teacher resource for grades 3-8.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897748794
• ISBN13: 9780897748797
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Excellent teacher and librarian resource!

This is a useful resource for teachers and librarians filling assignments for autobiography, historical works, learning about an era, and books in diary or journal form. Easy to use, the annotations are entertaining and the indexes are most useful.