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Sep 13, 2024
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EDMC 3210 - Children’s Literature for Middle Childhood
This course is designed for candidates in teacher education seeking licensure in middle childhood (4th-9th grades). The course content treats the body of literature by genre. Teacher candidates will be introduced to various techniques for utilizing children’s literature in middle childhood school settings.
Requisites: Advanced standing in professional education and 2.75 GPA
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to define and apply the criteria for evaluating the various genres of literature read by children in Middle Childhood.
- Students will be able to recognize various contemporary authors and illustrators of children’s literature.
- Students will be able to identify and evaluate multicultural and international literature for Middle Childhood school settings.
- Students will be able to describe and evaluate the graphic media used by artists to illustrate children’s books.
- Students will be able to discuss the value that literature holds for children between the ages of ten and fifteen.
- Students will be able to identify and use instructional techniques that could be used to teach literature in the Middle Childhood classroom.
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