Teaching Library Media Skills by Carrel Muller Gueringer Lower School Library Media Specialist
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1. Teaching activities in language arts: Literary allusion is a reference to something already known in literature. Literary allusions to characters; examples: Literary allusions to poetic language and dialogue; examples: Art store bill…."One, two buckle my shoe.” Letters from The Three Bears... “too big, too small, just right”. Literary allusion to stories from folk literature and poetry; examples: |
Genre is a category of literary composition. Fables: “Tortoise and the Hare”; “Ant and the Grasshopper” 2. Narrative poetry…"The Owl and the Pussycat” |
A. Biographical allusions to authors and their works … Example: The address on Ant’s business card, “1827 Spyri Lane, Hinzel, Switzerland ” is an allusion to Johanna Spyri the author Example: The address on Mother Goose’s letters, “1697 Rue Perrault, Paris, France”, is an allusion to the author Charles Perrault Example: The newspaper clippings for “The Tortoise and the Hare” Thomas E. Dewey and Harry S. Truman. C. Geography … making connections between stories/characters and their country of residence in the book. 2. Stamps on correspondence represent flags of countries. |
A. Atlas, its organization and use. 1. Table of contents – contents and organization 2. Index – finding maps – using coordinates to locate cities. 3. Introduce different types of atlas. 1. Reading maps – using contiguous countries or bodies of water 2. Placing marks at the designated cities – tracing a route. 3. Following Dr. David’s trip from Philadelphia through Europe and back to Philadelphia , then on to the wedding in Tobago . |
A. Teach or review parts of a book [Table of Contents and Index] B. Use Table of Contents/Indexes in Mother Goose books, poetry anthologies and fairy/folk tale collections to discover the literary allusions on the end papers. on the end papers by writing the title and page number. |
5. Teaching reference skills: that contain the works alluded to in Jean Cassels’s book. make a list of the works that may contain the original poetry or stories. 1. Searching the different sections of the library. 2. Practicing the use of the Dewey Decimal System. |
6. Teaching creative writing, technology and art: A. Letters – use templates on computer to write a letter for a favorite character pretending he/she has a life outside of their story. cards for a favorite character.
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