Earn these career-relevant skills in weeks, not years.
- Examine the qualities of children’s literature.
- Explore the value that children’s literature adds to children’s lives and learning.
- Identify ways to match children with literature that is appropriate to their age, reading level, and interests.
- Examine the literary elements of children’s literature.
- Explore picture books.
- Explore the significance that time spent reading has on children’s learning.
- Identify ways that readers choose books.
- Examine teacher read aloud as an inspiration to students and their reading.
- Develop ways to broaden students’ interest in a variety of children’s literature.
- Explore how to create a classroom library to inspire readers.
- Explore multicultural literature and international literature.
- Explore ways to support students’ reading at home and at school.
- Identify types of books that build community amongst readers.
- Explore various ways that readers can share books.
- Examine the types of reading plans that readers make.
- Explore the poetry genre and traditional literature.
- Explore students’ reading habits and the types of preferences for reading that readers demonstrate.
- Explore the modern fantasy, science fiction, and contemporary realistic fiction genres.
- Recognize the record keeping aspect of managing a class of readers.
- Evaluate ways to assess students’ progress in reading.
- Explore the nonfiction genre.
- Explore the historical fiction genre.