Chameleon Readers: Teaching Children to Appreciate All Kinds of Good Stories

by Allyssa McCabe, Barbara Burt, Alyssa McCabe

Aims to teach kindergarten and elementary school teachers who are interested in multicultural literacy programs how to incorporate reading into this curriculum. This book presents information about story telling traditions from various cultures to help teachers understand, or extend stories from other cultures that they read to students.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070450161
• ISBN13: 9780070450165
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Much-Needed Antidote to Current Teaching

Students of children's literature learn about "good stories" without being taught that this construct is actually a description of European traditional forms. To judge the narrative forms of other groups (Asian, Latino, African-American, or Indian) by this yardstick is unfair and absurd. CHAMELEON READERS presents separate chapters on each narrative style, with fascinating examples from research and suggestions for further investigation. It is useful both for teachers who have classrooms full of children from widely varying backgrounds, and for students of children's literature. It may change the way you listen to someone tell a story.