Choosing First Literature for the New Generations

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Choosing First Literature for the New Generations

• Tamara Baren, Literacy Specialist
• RCTL

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Its big world out there
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If the world were a village of 100 people

• 61 from Asia
• 13 from Africa
• 12 from Europe
• 8 from Latin and Caribbean countries
• 5 from US and Canada
• 1 from Oceania

• 6,000 languages, but 8 main ones
• 1/5 are 9 yrs or younger
• Average income of 6,200 if money were divided
  equally
• 31/38 attend school
• 1 teacher per 100

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Open the door to the rest of the world

• Choose from a variety of titles
• Make sure your books feature faces for all the
  people in the global village
• Put up a world map and flag the places you travel
  in reading
• Attend intercultural events with your kids

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Include all the faces
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Picture books

• Make many different lives personal
• Offer great art through illustrations
• Provide an intimate entry to different worlds
• Offer looks into cultures, gender issues,
  personal challenges, and relationship
• Lead us into new visions of historical events and
  times

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The human condition

• How are we the same
• How we all have the same love of family
• How we face the same problems
• How joy looks the same everywhere

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Noticing the details

• Number of female to male characters
• People are empowered
• Depicting characters in all colors
• Choosing texts that avoid stereotypes

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Check for

• Accurate portrayal of cultures
• Upbeat views of cultures
• Conflict resolution without violence
• Physically challenged characters are represented
  and empathetic

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Read aloud often

• Enriches daily experience
• Expands conversation
• Demonstrates the value of reading
• Delights all participants
• Enriches oral language
• Lays the foundation for literary language of
  reading later

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Tips to parents for read aloud

• Get comfortable
• Put the book and child
• in your lap
• Read and talk
• Spend the time to wonder aloud..
• Notice the pictures together
• Be prepared to reread many times

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You are too a great reader!

• Preview the book on your own
• Listen to how it sounds in your head
• Rehearse as if you are the Story Lady
• Use voices with different characters
• Read slowly enough to really hear the words, the
  richness of the language, the insights of the
  characters
• Let yourself fall into the book

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Reading around really matters

• Wordless books you tell the story
• Refocused fairly tales new heroines, better
  solutions
• Topical stories issues of recent history,
  current situations
• Informational books lots of pictures, captions,
  chunks of text and white space, stimulate
  interest in the real world

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Time to read

• Children need 100-200 hours of lap time
• Being read to
• Holding books
• Talking about pictures
• Asking questions
• Seeing meaningful literacy in action
• Retelling stories

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Match books to children

• Earliest ages 0-2
• Picture books, cardboard wipe-ables, few words
• 2-5 years short simple stories, great pictures,
  animal fantasy, the real world, wordless
• Five -seven longer stories, animal fantasy,
  wordless, real life, informational reads
• Seven and up picture books, short chapter books
  with pictures, longer chapter books
  informational reads with pictures, charts, tables

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On being left out
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Some Websites

• www.dsq-sds.org Disability studies Quarterlyl
• www.ala.org/ala/alsc/alscresources/bookist/bookgro
  w.cfm American Library Association
• http//oyate.org/catalog/preschool.html
  American Indian Library Association catalog see
  this site for a list of Native American focused
  book not endorsed by this group many traditional
  titles are here!
• http//content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?i
  d3757 How to Choose the best Multicultural
  Books Luther B. Clegg, Etta Miller, Bill
  Vanderhoof
• www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/socialistd/
  MBD/Title_index.html Nice list of diversity
  titles with links.

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