Keepsakes: Using Family Stories in Elementary Classrooms

by Linda Winston

Keepsakes demonstrates how elementary teachers can draw on family stories to enliven and enrich the curriculum, giving children a direct connection with the past and an immediate sense of history. It is an uplifting look at a truly multicultural curriculum--one that celebrates differences and similarities and strengthens the bonds between families and schools. Practical and broad in scope, Keepsakes draws on an ethnographer's descriptions of public...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0435072358
• ISBN13: 9780435072353
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 5 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 5