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ERIC Number: EJ635032
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0040-0599
Learning Social Skills through Literature for Children and Adolescents.
Cartledge, Gwendolyn; Kiarie, Mary W.
TEACHING Exceptional Children, v34 n2 p40-47 Nov-Dec 2001
This article offers guidelines for using children's and adolescents' literature as a means of fostering social learning while developing literacy skills. It reviews the literature on teaching social skills, considers book selection, offers a model for using literature to teach social skills, suggests literature formats for teaching social skills, and notes ways to encourage such reading. (Contains references.) (DB)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Bibliotherapy, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Interpersonal Competence, Peer Relationship, Social Development, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Journal Articles
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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