Location:      Pleasant Valley Intermediate School
                     Kunkletown, PA 18058

Dates:           July 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15 & 16, 2010

Time:             8:00 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.

Description: 
This is a 3 credit Colonial IU 20 Continuing Professional Education (CPE) graduate course. This course will focus on the different types of children’s literature that can be used to help children with their literacy development. Students need to learn how to become successful communicators. Children’s literature can be a powerful tool to teach students how to become effective readers, writers, listeners, and speakers. Additionally, this course will explain to participants how they can increase their student’s vocabulary development, fluency, and comprehension through the use of children’s literature. Participants will learn how to develop action plans that are directly related to the curriculum they teach. These action plans will be used to increase acquisition, retention, engagement and motivation in the classroom using children’s literature. Methods and strategies for implementing children’s literature in the classroom will be utilized. The instructor will present the material through group discussions, inquiry-based learning activities, cooperative learning activities, lectures, videos, and hands-on activities. Participants will be required to develop a research paper, create action plans, summarize current readings on children’s literature, and develop a portfolio.
    

Presenter:

Michael Caprari received his Bachelor’s Degree from Penn State University in Elementary Education and a Master’s Degree in Education from College Misericordia. Mr. Caprari also holds an M.Ed. in Reading from King’s College and an M.S. from Wilkes University in Education Leadership. He has taught in the Pleasant Valley Area School District and is presently an educator in the Wilkes-Barre Area School District as well as King’s College, Penn State University and Luzerne IU. Mr. Caprari has served on the Multicultural Education Task Force in his school district for several years and has completed formal course work on cultural diversity.

Learner Outcomes:

Participants will:

·   Identify and list the major genres in Children’s Literature, learning how to explain three strategies for integrating fantasy literature into the curriculum.

·   Learn ways that teachers can incorporate fictional literature into their daily instruction, as well as integrating nonfiction and multicultural literature, including picture books.

·   Develop action plans that incorporate different types of children’s literature into instruction, while utilizing instructional techniques that build on children’s early literacy development through phonemic awareness and phonics.

·   Analyze research in vocabulary instruction and fluency development, together with methods and strategies for teaching poetry.

For More Information Please Contact: 
Robin Gaetani, Curriculum Services
rgaetani@ciu20.org or (610) 515-6506

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