ED 3322: Children's Literature Exam

ED 3322: Children's Literature Exam children's literature - ANSWER-good-quality trade books for children from birth to early adolescence, covering topics of relevance and interest to children through prose and poetry, fiction and nonfiction; reflect children's life experiences, understandings, and emotions textbook - ANSWER-book for the purpose of instruction, such as the basal reader used in many classrooms for reading instruction trade book - ANSWER-book that is primarily for the purposes of entertainment and information quality in writing and illustration - ANSWER-has to do with originality and importance of ideas, imaginative use of language and image, and beauty of literary and artistic style that enable a work to remain fresh, interesting, and meaningful for many years literature across the curriculum - ANSWER-refers to using literature as teaching materials in social studies and history, science, health, and mathematics reading interest - ANSWER-suggests a feeling one has toward particular reading material reading preference - ANSWER-implies making a choice from two or more options reading choice - ANSWER-the materials that children select and read from a specific collection reading interest inventories - ANSWER-provide teachers and librarians with helpful information about students' current interests and introduce children to new genres, topics, and books readability - ANSWER-an estimate of a text's difficulty based on its vocabulary (common v.s. uncommon words) and sentence structure (short, simple sentences v.s. long, complex sentences) conceptual difficulty - ANSWER-related to the complexity of ideas in the book and how these ideas are presented