Modern Fantasy

1. What is Modern Fantasy?

Is literature that is set in the real world, but the author has altered one or more characteristics of everyday reality. It takes children into that time and setting into another world,to where they can be part of the story they are reading. Modern Fantasy also gives these five important rules of reading modern fantasy books which are:

1. helps children expanded their curiosity,
2. become observers of life,
3. learn to be sensitive to rules variations within the rules
4. open their minds to new possibilities.

2. Design (create) a unique activity that you would use in your classroom?

There are many activities you can you can use for modern fantasy. I really enjoyed the activity that we got to make our own masks of "Where The Wild Things Are". The activity that I will be using in my classroom is with the story " James And Giant Peach" I used to enjoy "James And The Giant Peach" story when I was growing up, so I figured my students will too.

We would read the story and at the end of the story we would make their own mural of their favorite scene of the story.

Activity Name: " James And The Giant Peach"

Directions: The students would draw their own mural of their favorite scene in the book. A mural is design that you make from free hand drawing whether it's on a wall or sheet of paper.

Steps:

1. I would handout each student a white long sheet of paper.
2. They can use construction paper,markers, colors, pipe cleaners,glue stick,pencil, stencils.
3. Design a mural of their own favorite scene in the story
4. Then we would hang the mural all around the classroom.

Traditional Literature

1. Give one super sentence definition of traditional literature?
Traditional Literature- Is based on children based literature where there is good and evil. These are the kind of stories that have been past down from generation to generation. Some of the stories that I enjoyed growing up are: The Legend of Indian Paint brush, Peter Rabbit and The Three Little Pigs.

2. How can you use Traditional Literature in classroom?
There are so many ways you can use traditional Literature in your classroom. You could have the students come up with new ending the story such as Cinderella or Snow white. It's makes the students more creative and thinks outside the box. They could also write their own play about the story.

3. Will you use traditional in your classroom why or why not?
Yes,I will be using traditional Literature in my classroom. I believe it gives children wanting to know what other children around the world read. There are many different variations of Cinderella . There are different things she loses in the different Cinderella stories from the different countries. It also makes them realize to set good examples for others. If they believe in there dream that have to set goals in order for that dream to come true!

Picture Books

1. What are Picture Books? When can you use them? How? Are there any limitations?
Picture books are - Communicate information or tell stories through a series of many pictures combined with relatively slight texts or no text at all. It also states that the illustration (pictures) are just as important or even more important then the text. Picture books can satisfy a wide age range of readers. You can use picture books from infant-adult years. You can read the different types of nursery rhymes helps stimulate oral language development when they are infants,toddlers. The wordless picture books encourage children to find objects in pictures,tell their own story,and write creatively this for young children 6-18 age. Picture story books are great for reading aloud to the students. I don't believe there is no limitations on using picture books.

2. How do you evaluate or select picture books? What is the processes? There are four major factors on evaluating a picture books.

1. The child's age and stage of cognitive and social devloment.
2. The way in which an adult has or has not prepared the child for an experience with a picture book.
3. The child's emotional state of readiness.
4. The number of times the child looks at the illustrations.

Always make sure you have the books on same topic of what you are teaching for that week. If you are teaching about transportation,don't add a book about bears in there. The students might wonder what bears have to do with transportation. Always keep your students in mind when selecting your books.The relationship between the words and the pictures when evaluating a picture book.

3. What are my personal views on picture books? No,like and why? Use or no use? Why?

I believe that picture books are great way to learn how to read. It all start from Infant through adult. Also, picture books helps children with their writing ,thinking, oral communication and vocabulary. I know when I was growing up I used to love to read the "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", "Brown Bear" and "The Stinky Cheese Man". Those were some of my favorite growing up. I do like picture books, it makes the child wonder what is going to happen next of the story. Yes, I would use picture books in my classroom. You as a teacher can do a lot of activites from picture books,for example: when we work in our home groups we chose 3 different picture books and how we could incorpate these books into activties. There are web activties, cause and effect and sequenced. " Ellas of Course we used web activity and " Some Pig" we used cause and effect and "My Aparon" we did sequence. I believe it makes a child start think of what happened in the story that they had just read or the teacher had read to them.

International and Multicultralism Literature

International Literature defintion says that body of books originally published in a country other than the United States in a language of that country and later published in this country. The are written in another language other than english and are later translated into English. 1. Help us connect us to potential friends around the world. 2. Teach us about the global neighbors and provide a cultural bridge to interal and external worlds of people far away. 3. provide cultural knowledge that goes far beyond the narrow coverage provided by textbooks or television 4. Relfects the culture and language diversity that is found in our classroom. Multiculture books are written in the United States and discussed about another culture. It's the children aware of the different cultures and religions of the children around the world. It's imporant to have international and Multicultural books in our classrooms because, the students can get sense of what books are out there. So oneday they can be able to do a book report, journal on types of these books.

Activities that I would do in my classroom with International and Multicultural

International
1. After reading the book, I would make my students write a journal stating what they learned from the reading.
2. I get my students to do a play so they could get idea of how felt leave in those times depending on the book they read.

Mulitcultural:
1.The students would have a certain child of anther country and they would have to do research on that country. So we do Children around the world project.
2.I would give them title of books and they would choose and do a bookreport of the book. I would let them read then start writing about the story and share it with their classmates.