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2. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Entire Course (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 1 Individual Assignment Favorite Book Share (UOP Course) RDG 350 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP Course) RDG 350 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP Course)

3. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 1 Children’s Literature Blog Favorite Book Share For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 1 Children’s Literature Blog Favorite Book Share The librarian for your school is concerned that students on cam

4. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Define children’s literature. (Please use our text's definition.) Cite two or three books you would label as children’s literature and explain your reasoning.

5. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 1 DQ 3 (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com What are at least three ways children’s literature facilitates students’ learning of content, language development, and improved reading abilities?

6. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 1 Individual Assignment Favorite Book Share (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com RDG350 Week 1 Individual Assignment Favorite Book Share Prepare to discuss one of your favorite books you read as a child . Post this in the Main Forum as well as to the Assignments page.

7. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 1 Reading Reflection Paper For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 1 Reading Reflection Paper Write a 350- to 525-word reflection on your history as a reader of children’s literature. The reflection must include answers to the following questions:

8. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 2 Caldecott and Newbery Award Book Commercials For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 2 Caldecott and Newbery Award Book Commercials

9. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Traditionally, picture books have been primarily used in the early years of school (K–2). Recently, picture books have creatively explored concepts in all areas of the curriculum and at all educational levels. Can picture books be used successfully and effectively in middle or high school curriculum? Why or why not?

10. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 2 DQ 2 (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Identify an award-winning book you have read that you could imagine to be an award winner, or one you believe should not have received an award. Discuss and support your evaluation.

11. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 2 DQ 3 (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com If a parent were visiting your class and asked you why you were using literature in the science class they observed, what would you choose as your three most valuable reasons? How would you support your choices?

12. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 2 Genre Comparison Chart and Analysis For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 2 Genre Comparison Chart and Analysis Complete a comparison table that evaluates the similarities and differences of the genres in children’s literature. The genres to be compared are listed below. The characteristics that you wish to compare must be decided on by the Learning Team.

13. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com • RDG 350 Week 2 Individual Assignment Newbery and Caldecott Awards Summary (UOP Course) • For more course tutorials visit • www.tutorialrank.com • Resources: American Library Association Web site (http://www.ala.org/) or the International Reading Association Web site (http://www.reading.org/General/Default.aspx) and Children’s Literature. • Caldecott® Medal and Newbery® Medal Book Summaries (350 word minimum for each award) - Research the Caldecott® Medal and the Newbery® Medal Awards.  Choose and read one book honored

14. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Standards Based Presentation (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Review the book each team member selected in Week One.

15. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 3 Censored Book Reflection For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 3 Censored Book Reflection Research the American Library Association website (search for “Banned Books Week”) to find children’s books that have been censored. Ch. 1 of Children’s Books in Children’s Hands may also be helpful in preparing the reflection.

16. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com  Is it important to expose your students to all genres of literature? Why or why not?

17. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 3 DQ 2 (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com If a parent challenged a particular book you were using with your class, what would you do? Describe the steps you would take.

18. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 3 DQ 3 (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com What are some critical issues relating to the selection of children’s literature in the classroom?

19. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 3 Individual Assignment Censored Book Reflection (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Individual Censored Book Reflection Research the American Library Association website or the Inter

20. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 3 Individual Assignment Genre Presentation (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Choose and research a children’s literature genre. Construct a narrative paper (350-word minimum) on the genre detailing the following: characteristics, well-known authors, and two examples of quality children’s literature in the genre. Try to choose a genre that is unfamiliar to you.  Evaluate the examples that you will provide with guidelines from our textbook.

21. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 3 Issue and Trend Interview Blog For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 3 Issue and Trend Interview Blog Congratulations! The blog that you created in Week 1 for the school librarian has been a success with students

22. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 4 Author Study For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 4 Author Study Author studies are one way a teacher can expose students to a variety of books written by the same author. For this assignment you will create a newspaper built around an author and the books the author has written.

23. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 4 Book Response and Reflection For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 4 Book Response and Reflection Read a children’s book and prepare a creative response to the book. The book you select should not be one on which you have already completed an assignment. Search the Internet for “creative responses to literature.”

24. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 4 Censored Book Reflection For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 4 Censored Book Reflection Research the American Library Association website (search for “Banned Books Week”) to find children’s books that have been censored. Ch. 1 of Children’s Books in Children’s Hands may also be helpful in preparing the reflection.

25. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 4 DQ 1 (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com According to the chapter in our text, what are the creative responses that could be used by students to respond to a book?

26. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 4 DQ 2 (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com What are the benefits of having students respond to the literature they read?

27. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 4 DQ 3 (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Provide an example of how literature could be used to reinforce a lesson on values or life skills. 

28. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 4 Individual Assignment Book Response and Reflection (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Read a children’s book and prepare a creative response to the book. (See examples in Ch. 4 of the text.). Write a 350-word paper reflecting on how the form of response you chose contributed to your understandings of the book.

29. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 4 Individual Assignment Caldecott and Newbery Award Book Summaries (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Research the Caldecott and Newbery awards. Choose and read one book honored by each of the awards (two books total). Write a 350- to 700-word summary for each of the books, including your brief evaluation of each book.

30. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 4 Individual Assignment Caldecott and Newbery Award Book Summaries (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Research the Caldecott and Newbery awards. Choose and read one book honored by each of the awards (two books total). Write a 350- to 700-word summary for each of the books, including your brief evaluation of each book.

31. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 5 DQ 1 (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com How would you deal with a book that portrays negative values?

32. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 5 DQ 2 (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com What might a response to a book through art, music, drama, writing, or movement demonstrate about involvement and understanding of the books? How might these kinds of responses stimulate learning?

33. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 5 DQ 3 (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Would you mind sharing something that you've learned during this class?  I use this information to see where I need to place more emphasis. It's also nice to know that you did learn something during our time together.

34. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 5 Genre Celebration For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 5 Genre Celebration The Genre Celebration is a culmination of all the learning in this course. It is designed to extend your knowledge of a particular genre and how it can be used in the reading classroom. that children might study and enjoy that person’s works in the classroom or library setting.

35. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 5 Individual Assignment Issue and Trend Interview Paper (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Issues and Trends Interview Paper-Interview a school librarian regarding the issues/trends in children’s literature. Submit your interview questions and answers as well as a brief summary of the session. Be sure to ask probing and follow-up questions.  Your interview questions must follow the themes/objectives for our course. You will need to include questions related to: Picture Books, Reading Aloud, Li

36. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Anticipation and Reaction Guides and Summary (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Discuss each team member’s answers to the Anticipation and Reaction Guide Write a 350 word summary of your group’s discussions covering any themes, similarities, or differences that you found.

37. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Genre Celebration (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Resource: Genre Celebration Guidelines located on the Course Materials page. Submit the Genre Celebration project.

38. RDG 350 Enhance teaching/ tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 5 Multicultural Book Summary and Analysis Presentation For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com RDG 350 Week 5 Multicultural Book Summary and Analysis Presentation Read a multicultural book of your choice as described or listed in Ch. 4 of Children’s Books in Children’s Hands.

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