Literature and the Learner (with InfoTrac )

By Francis S. Goforth

This text introduces the teacher-in-training to the genres of children's literature, gives an extensive (100 pp.) bibliography for each genre, and introduces and develops strategies for fully integrating literature into the classroom. It not only acquaints the student with currently published, classic, and award-winning literature, but also gives the tools to evaluate the massive quantity of new literature (5,000 new titles annually) for children and for use in the classroom. Each genre is described in detail in a separate chapter, and the second half of the text is devoted to the accepted methods and new ideas for implementing different kinds of literature into a curriculum.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 053454097X
• ISBN13: 9780534540975
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Length: 650 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 1.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Teachers will love this book!

Dr. Goforth combines suggestions for teaching literacy skills with valuable information about books in this insightful resource! My elementary education preservice teachers love this book for its ideas as well as thousands of reviews of books. I am so glad that there is an edition like this one available for the education community!

A Masterpiece of Masterpieces

Never before has an author so well presented the visual and literary breadth of what we all love so well - literature! I was captivated by the artwork and enriched by the narrative. In my first sitting with it, I turned every page, anxious to see what lay ahead!