Sharing the Journey: Literature for Young Children - Softcover

Yellin, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934432075 ISBN 13: 9781934432075

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

This wonderful resource from two authors with an infectious enthusiasm for children's literature will help readers select and share quality books for and with young children. Specifically focused on infants through the third grade, Sharing the Journey contains descriptive book annotations, instructive commentary, and creative teaching activities tailored for those important years.

Extensive book lists throughout will help readers build a library of quality children's literature. Books representing other cultures are included to help celebrate diversity as well as cultural connection. Genre chapters include poetry, fantasy, and realistic and historical fiction. A chapter on informational books demonstrates how young children can be introduced to, and learn to enjoy, nonfiction.

About this title

About the Author:

David Yellin, Ph.D., is in his thirtieth year teaching at Oklahoma State University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in literacy education. His research interests include developmental reading in young children, oral language development, and teaching process writing to young children. He has published numerous articles in professional journals such as The Journal of Content Area Reading, The Reading Teacher, Journal of Teacher Education, Research in Rural Education as well as numerous state journals.

Currently Yellin serves on various committees on the Faculty Council of Oklahoma State University, as well as the Fulbright Selection Committee, International Studies Committee, and Academic Appeals Board. His interest in international education includes supervising student teachers in Costa Rica and serving as a member of the Belize Literacy Project.

Yellin received his Ph.D. in reading education from Arizona State University and his master's degree in elementary education from New York University. Before going to Oklahoma State University, he taught reading and language arts at the junior high school level in Brooklyn, New York, and elementary school in Jacksonville, Florida.

Beverly A. DeVries, Ed.D., has been teaching at Southern Nazarene University in Oklahoma since 1993. She teaches reading diagnosis and primary and elementary literature/language arts. In all her courses, she demonstrates how teachers can use authentic assessment and instruction, using quality children's literature. She is presently on the Standards and Ethics Committee of the International Reading Association (IRA) and is the reading specialist on the Oklahoma Commission Program Advisory Board. She presents workshops on Writing Successful Reading Program Reports at the state and national level. DeVries received her Ed.D. from Oklahoma State University. Before beginning her college teaching career, she spent most of her years in the middle school, teaching composition and reading. It was during those years that she recognized the importance of early literacy intervention.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1934432075
• ISBN 13: 9781934432075
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360