Are You a Literature-Based Teacher?: Visit My Other Blog Pump Up the Volumes To View Preschool/Adult Literature

I was taught to use literature as a springboard to lesson planning. Whether it be taking a picture walk to introduce a lesson, sequencing events in a story using story cards, or retelling a story using a gross-motor activity or puppets books reign supreme.

They concretely examine new vocabulary, phonological awareness, and visual discrimination. Books can be used to develop any kind of lesson plan on any subject: ex. social studies (read Little Miss Liberty by Chris Robertson to your students and make Lady Liberty Crowns, speak about early immigration to Castle Clinton (once known as Castle Garden and the precursor of Ellis Island. For more information visit: http://www.nps.gov/cacl/index.htm) or Ellis Island, dance to scarves to Neil Diamond's "America" while speaking about ship travel to America,  or have students bring in pictures of their family and develop a class family tree).

The possibilities are truly endless. As the Reading Rainbow theme song said:  take a look, its in a book...

With Literature-based lesson planning your lessons are truly unlocked through taking a look in a book.

I invite you to investigate the possibilities of literature-based lesson planning by viewing my Pump Up the Volumes blog which is dedicated to children's, young adult, and adult books and periodicals.

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