Multicultural literature in elementary schoola

I want to have quality literature in my classroom for student to read and enjoy. I also want to use this literature to help my students become good writers. Readin

Were does writing fit in, well in Katie Wood Ray’s book Wondrous Words I learned that we don’t need to reinvent the wheel when teaching students to write. Instead we should be using the writers we already have in the classroom and their literature to teach students to write (2001). How do we do this? Ray believes that we need to teach our children to read like writers. Let students know that writers who write well read and learn from other writers how to write. We don’t need to teach our children to be unique in their writing just to be individual(1999). As teachers we cannot give our student’s hours of worksheets and expect them to learn to write. Instead why not read a wonderful written piece of literature and teach our students to write from what is already there. If a teacher wants to teach children about adjectives read them a book rich in adjectives. Expose students to good writing and teach them from it. Research by Joyce Bumgardner tells us that if we expose our student to good books and use them to teach writing then it no longer becomes a chore. Students are able to connect to the written word and learn to express themselves in writing(1996). As a teacher I want learning to write to be a fun experience and maybe my students will not have the problem I have had even as an adult.

I have read and researched several different sources and the one thing they all agree on is that teachers need to be reading aloud to students no matter what grade they are in. Research by Jim Trelease(2001) tells us that our schools are creating school time readers instead of lifetime readers. What we have done is taught our students how to read but forgotten to teach them to want to read. Instead we have our students doing endless hours of worksheets, hours of inte

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