A Place for Children’s Literature in New Literacies Classrooms Conference Program
Friday April 4, 2008 10:30-11:30 AM Session 1: Jane Baskwill; Changing the Lens: Using Art-Full Reflective Journaling and Multicultural Children’s Literature to Explore Issues of AntiRacism and Social Justice This session is of interest to educators at all levels who search for new spaces for children’s literature in which to foreground social justice. Session 2: Aubrey Davis; Teaching-Stories: Ancient Tools for New Knowledge In this presentation, teaching-stories will be discussed as a way for readers to absorb critical attitudes and personal qualities to help them cope with and thrive in the world, as well as to develop higher order thinking skills. Session 3: Pam Whitty & Sherry Rose; “I Would Never Read That to Children:” Negotiating Spaces for Children as Critical Multimodal Readers in Child Care Settings In our critical-feminist action research project with local childcare practitioners in New Brunswick, we interpret the co-constructing of multi-modal literacy practices as we pilot a curriculum framework for early learning and care for children birth to four. Session 4: Larry Verstraete; Behind the Published Book: Marketplace Writing Strategies for the Classroom In this session, participants go behind-the-scenes of the book industry to present practical suggestions on how educators can apply approaches adapted from the publishing world to enhance the writing cultures of their own classrooms. Session 5: Jeanette Thompson; Historical Fiction in the World of Multiliteracies: How Can the Old World Speak to the New? This presentation explores male young adult literate practices in relation to the genre of historical fiction using Australian contemporary literature. Session 6: Shosh Brenner & Beverley Goldbach; Adolescence, Reluctance, and Motivation: How to Instill the Love for Reading This action research investigates factors that deter or motivate students to choose reading as a preferred activity.
Session 7: Carol Jupiter, Engaging Readers: Asking the Right Questions at the Right Time This presentation will discuss the importance of and approaches to connections within and without the text, posing questions and visualizing readings and sharing these experiences with students on asking the right questions, listening and giving students the time to develop the language and skills to probe text. Kristin Main; Reconnecting Adolescents with Children’s Literature: Helping Students Connect with the Meaning Making Process This presentation takes a multimodal approach to helping intermediate level students connect with meaning making processes by reconnecting them with children’s literature. Session 8: Jamie Naidoo; Empowering Diversity: Interrelation of Traditional and Multimodal Texts in Promoting Multicultural Literacy This presentation shows how children’s literature can promote multicultural literacy, higher-order thinking, and the use of varied technologies. Anne Burke; Multimodality in Picture Books This presentation shows how multimodality within picture books may be used to create new literate understandings for adolescents. Authors Linda Granfield (Amazing Grace; Where Poppies Grow; What Am I?; Silent Night; In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae) Rukhsana Khan (The Roses in my Carpets; Silly Chicken; Dahling if You Love Me Would You Please, Please Smile; Muslim Child) Marsha Skrypuch (Aram’s Choice; Hope’s War; Daughter of War; Nobody’s Child) Barbara Reid (Two by Two; The Party; Read Me A Book; Seed to Flower) Helaine Becker (Secret Agent Y.O.U. - Yes, You!: The Official Guide to Secret Codes, Disguises, Surveillance and More; Funny Business; Are You Psychic?) Marthe Jocelyn (Hannah and the Seven Dresses; Hannah's Collections; Mable Riley; A Reliable Record of Humdrum, Peril and Romance; How It Happened in Peach Hill)
Friday April 4, 2008 2:15-3:15 PM Session 1: Rukhsana Khan; Using Stories to Navigate Turmoil in the Lives of Unprivileged Children This workshop explores how storytelling can be used in the classroom as a tool of cultural expression. Session 2: Larry Swartz; Working with Visual Texts
Through drama exploration and discussion in response to visual texts, participants will be encouraged to consider pedagogy that works towards change in the improvement in others in building stronger relationships and caring communities.
Session 3: Marni Binder; The Imaginative Landscapes of Children: Exploring Multiple Literacies through Picture Books This is an interactive workshop exploring the imaginative connections between quality picture books and emerging literacies in the primary classroom. Session 4: Jane Paterson & Theresea Meikle, What the Code Reveals Bringing alternate texts into the classroom to examine and/or to create within, presents challenges. Examining both texts together helps meaning making to occur by both teacher and student. Session 5: Andrea Schwenke Wyile & Paul Hutten; Picture Books of Ideas and Critical Metamorphoses in Middle School This presentation outlines the objectives of our study and creation of “picture books of ideas” with middle school students, including practical and theoretical findings. The analysis of some student made texts will focus on the metamorphoses they have engendered in the students and the participating adults, and in the evolution of our collaboration. Session 6: Marianna Di Iorio; Examining Representations of Same-sex Relationships in Picture Books This session examines texts on same-sex relationships and how they provide opportunities to challenge heterosexist notions of family. Leah Delia Larson; From Transgender to Heteroflexible: Queerness in Contemporary Young Adult Novels This study uses a queer framework to analyze presentation of sexual orientation in young adult novels published between 2000 and 2007.
Session 7: Robyn Ewing; Fostering Critical Literacy Through Drama and Authentic Literary Texts This presentation demonstrates that drama strategies linked with authentic , richly interpretative literary texts can foster students’ imaginations and develop their creativity. Heather Lotherington; Learning Narratives Through a Multiliteracies Approach: Radically Rewritten Traditional Tales at Joyce Public School This presentation focuses on a collaborative action research project through which students developed individualized digital versions of traditional tales. Session 8: Leslie McGrath; The Accessible Rare Book: Bringing Students to Special Collections and Special Collections to Students: A Case Study of the Osborne Collection This paper outlines three ways in which one special children’s literature collection supports research using primary materials for students in grades 7 to 11 to encourage the wider use of historical literature in the classroom. Miriam Richter; The Rare Book - The Importance of Being Historical: Theoretical Considerations on the Significance of Bringing Students and Special Collections Together This paper uses theoretical concepts of culture and history in order to explore the questions of why it is important to bring students in touch with historical literature and in what way it helps them understand their cultural heritage. Authors Aubrey Davis (Bagels from Benny; Bone Button Borscht; The Enormous Potato; The Enormous Potato) Frieda Wishinsky (Beware, Pirates!: Canadian Flyer Adventures #1; Yikes! Vikings!: Canadian Flyer Adventures #4; No Frogs For Dinner; So Long Stinky Queen) Jennifer Lanthier (The Mystery of the Martello Tower; The Legend of the Lost Jewels) Elizabeth Macleod (Eleanor Roosevelt: An Inspiring Life; Helen Keller: A Determined Life; The Kids Book of Great Canadian Women; The Kids Book Of Canada At War) Paul Yee (Ghost Train; What Happened This Summer And Other Stories; Tales from Gold Mountain; The Bone Collector's Son)
Saturday April 5, 2008 10:30-11:30 AM Session1: Carol Rolheiser, Jane Paterson, & Blair Mascall; The Challenge of Change: The Use of an Alternate Text for Literacy Research Dissemination This interactive presentation demonstrates a way of collecting data and sharing research findings that employs the multimodal text of the documentary video to address the challenge of low literacy achievement in schools. Session 2: Mary Kooy; Picture Books as Portals: Visual Vistas for Understanding Literary Theory This session explores the possibilities and practices for encouraging and constructing understanding of a range of literary theories through the visual medium of picture books. Session 3: Carole Miller & Juliana Saxton; Drama: Using Multiple Literacies to Explore the Interface Between Our Inner Selves and the Outside World This presentation will serve as a demonstration of how drama supports multiple literacies while offering opportunities to uncover the social (or hidden) curriculum. Mary Ladky & Miriam Davidson; Photography and Storytelling: Creating and Recreating Literary Texts in the Intermediate Classroom This paper reports the results of two teacher/researchers’ in-school collaborative project, where intermediate students used literary texts as springboards for development of their photography and writing. Session 4: Naomi Hamer; Reading Children’s Literature Across Trans-Media Franchises: The Multimodal Literacy Cultures of ‘Tween Girls This paper discussion will be a close analysis on a range of texts related to C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia presenting the findings of responses of tween readers to these texts. Brenton Doecke, Natalie Bellis, & Graham Parr, The Making of Literature in Australian English Classrooms We will explore ways in which Australian literature teachers are continuing to provide spaces for creativity and engagement in their classrooms, enabling young people to locate their reading in relation to their own needs and values. Authors Richard Scrimger (A Nose for Adventure; Mystical Rose; Princess Bun Bun; From Charlie’s Point of View)
Rosemary Sadlier (The Kids Book of Black Canadian History; Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad; Mary Ann Shadd: Publisher, Editor, Teacher, Lawyer, Suffragette; Leading the Way:Black Women in Canada) Veronika Charles (The Bird Man; Don’t Forget; Necklace of Stars; Crane Girl) Saturday April 5, 2008 12:30-1:30 PM Session 1: Ingrid Johnston, Joyce Bainbridge, Lynne Wiltse, Mary Clare Courtland, Roberta Hammett, Anne Burke, Angela Ward, Farha Shariff; Reviewing Performativity, Image, and Ideology in Canadian Multicultural Picture Books with Preserivce Teachers In this themed panel session, seven researchers will present findings from a national study that explores aspects of visual literacy and identity formation in Canadian multicultural picture books with pre-service teachers. Session 2: Lynne Cohen & Carole Carpenter; STOMP This presentation presents a project where adolescent males are mentored online by male university students in an effort to motivate adolescent males to read fiction and to improve their written responses to reading. Session 3: Yiola Cleovoulou; Multiliteracies and the Novel Study: One teachers' approach to Socially Inclusive Pedagogy An introduction of a children’s text, “Naomi’s Road” stimulates ideas surrounding the complexities of teaching historical fiction to a small reading group of junior special education students. In this presentation it is demonstrated how “Language Lab,” a computer based language program, can be used to create a more inclusive learning environment. Sunny, Man Chu Lau; A Critical Reading of the Use of Cultural Traditions in Chinese Canadian Children’s Books This paper critically examines the use of the Chinese heritage in two ChineseCanadian children’s literary texts. Session 4: Linda Cameron & Kimberly Bezaire; Toys as Text: Critically Reading Children’s Playthings Together we will play with the texts of toys, games, and technologies to explore how they relate to concepts of text and multiliteracies and how through interaction, meaning is constructed. Authors
Ken Setterington (The Wild Swans; Mom and Mum are getting Married!; Clever Katarina; Tales of Court and Castle) Paul Kropp (Team Tag; Home Run; My Broken Family; One Crazy Night) Sharon Jennings (Franklin Collection; Priscilla and Rosy; No Monsters Here; When You Get A Baby)