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Children's books also benefit children's social and emotional development. Reading books help "personal development and self-understanding by presenting situations and characters with which our own can be compared". [185] Children's books often present topics that children can relate to, such as love, empathy, family affection, and friendship.
Dick and Jane are the two protagonists created by Zerna Sharp for a series of basal readers written by William S. Gray to teach children to read. The characters first appeared in the Elson-Gray Readers in 1930 and continued in a subsequent series of books through the final version in 1965. These readers were used in classrooms in the United ...
The Units of Study curriculum guide books and "workshop" model centers on independent student work in combination with teacher modeling and one-on-one and small-group guidance. [17] The Project has also published a Classroom Library Series through Heinemann, which includes books for grades K-8 from more than 50 different publishers. These books ...
Board books, picture books, novels, chapter books — and even a cookbook and experiment-filled science book — made the list. One more thing: Since kids like to imitate adults, make sure they ...
13. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894). Raised by wolves, Mowgli must face the terrible tiger Shere Khan, with the help of Baloo, a “sleepy brown bear”, and Bagheera, a panther.
British children's author and critic Charlotte Mary Yonge wrote in 1869 that the books had taught "three-quarters of the gentry of the last three generations" to read. [ 19 ] According to Myers, Barbauld's work inspired other educational ventures of the time, including the reforms of John Dewey , Friedrich Fröbel , and Johann Pestalozzi . [ 16 ]
A 2004 study found that it was a common read-aloud book for fourth-graders in schools in San Diego County, California. [8] A 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children." [9]
Constructing the canon of children's literature : beyond library walls and ivory towers. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-8153-3841-4. A scholarly examination of canons of children's literature. Silvey, Anita, ed. (1995). Children's books and their creators. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-395-65380-7. Includes a basic reading list on pp. xi–xvi.