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Article: Using Literature Activities To Teach Content Areas To Emergent Readers.(Book Review)
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- Childhood Education
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2003 Association for Childhood Education International. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Mildred R. Donoghue. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2001. 150 pp. If curriculum and assessment mandates addressing literacy skill development are interfering with the amount of time left to teach the content areas of math, science, and social studies, then this book is exactly what teachers need in their professional libraries. The author, who is on the faculty at California State University at Fullerton, has provided a teacher-friendly means for writing engaging, interdisciplinary lesson plans that incorporate literature into all the elementary content areas.
This book is organized into four sections. The first section defines emergent literacy and ...