This article explores the possibilities of graphic novels with young readers. During the 2009-2010 school year, while working with four fifth-grade students, the author examined the question "In what ways do readers engage while reading a graphic novel?" The fifth graders took part in book discussions and one-on-one interviews after reading two…

This article presents a review of the author's long-term research in urban classrooms. The authors explore six illustrated information books created by children as culminating activities of integrated science-literacy units, Forest and Matter, that they developed, implemented, and studied in several 1st-3rd grade classrooms in Chicago Public…

Gail Gibbons is an author/illustrator of children's informational texts. This article provides in-depth information about one particular science trade book, how it was created, and how it works, so teachers can share these ideas with their own students and so they can make use of this knowledge in their own teaching with informational texts. The…

Students will develop closer ties with the past if they are exposed to the poems and tales the children of the past loved. (JH)

Concludes that the American Indian is misrepresented, distorted, romanticized and victimized in children's literature. (JH)

In her writings about the Ingall's family, Laura Ingalls Wilder has provided for all level of readers an informative and interesting picture of pioneer life. (JH)

Visualizing relationships in the form of story maps, flow charts or time lines is a creative way of recording ideas. (JH)