Understanding American History through Children's Literature: Instructional Units and Activities for Grades K-8

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Students connect with Americans of the past through quality works of fiction, nonfiction, biography, folktale, and legend. American history ceases to be remote and unfamiliar and becomes the story of real individuals--colonists, pioneers, Native Americans, immigrants--with diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. This book is an excellent support for a literature-based history or social studies curriculum. This book closely integrates American history and children's literature by combining the best features of an annotated bibliography of children's historical literature with the best features of a teaching guide.

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.,."detailed, well-crafted, developmentally appropriate activities to complement the recommended readings for each grade level....this is a rich treasure chest of creative ideas that will enrich history classes for teachers as well as students."-School Library Journal
...detailed, well-crafted, developmentally appropriate activities to complement the recommended readings for each grade level....this is a rich treasure chest of creative ideas that will enrich history classes for teachers as well as students.-School Library Journal
..."detailed, well-crafted, developmentally appropriate activities to complement the recommended readings for each grade level....this is a rich treasure chest of creative ideas that will enrich history classes for teachers as well as students."-School Library Journal

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MARIA A. PEREZ-STABLE is associate professor, University Libraries, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. She has a M.A. in history from Western Michigan University and an M.S.L.S. from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. MARY H. CORDIER is associate professor emerita and adjunct associate professor of Elementary Education, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. She is a researcher, author, lecturer, and workshop leader in women's history, and in the integration of children's literature into the K-8 curricula. She received her Ed.S. in curriculum development.