Reference no: EM133505725
Assignment: Annotated Bibliography
Length: 4 to 5 pages.
Part I
List, cite, and describe children's books that enable children to learn about other cultures. Provide detailed examples of multicultural picture books and types of cultural differences. (Example: books portraying children with disabilities, African-American children's books, books on culture-based holidays, Latin America, other countries, etc.)
Part II
The Capstone presentation should include an extensive analysis/examination of three books from your bibliography and should be 10-15 slides in length with embedded voice-over or video. Your Capstone presentation may be created in PowerPoint, Prezi, or uploaded as a video into ARC in our Canvas course (if uploaded into ARC as a video, you must provide a brief, supplemental supporting document). The presentation will be a continuation of your annotated bibliography, which focused on one of the following topics:
? Multicultural picture books and types of cultural differences (example: books portraying children with disabilities, African-American children's books, books on culture-based holidays, Latin America, other counties, etc.);
Your analysis in the Capstone presentation should include these elements:
Question A. Selection of three books, media, or poetry from your bibliography:
Question a. Describe style of illustrations
Question b. Describe author's writing style
Question c. Utilize literary terms in your analysis, such as theme, tone, point of view, plot, etc., and description of character
Question d. Mention any background information you have found about the author or illustrator
Question B. Examine how early childhood education teachers can use these children's book examples in the classroom. Specifically, include ways to teach or strategies you would use to share each of the books you selected, including how you would present each story in class/circle time (dramatization, puppet play, felt boards, audiovisual equipment, props, etc).
Question C. Reference three scholarly resources (this can include our textbook) when presenting each book selection. Please include a References page.
Question D. Note how each book supports reading and literacy or pre-literacy characteristics. (HINT: use chapters in our textbook or other articles you have found.) Answer questions such as:
Question a. Is there a good text-picture match? Does it provide nonlinguistic visual cues?
Question b. Is the book interesting or imaginative? Are students engaged in the text?
Question c. Do situations and characters represent diverse cultural groups?
Question d. Is the book predictable? Use of rhyme, alliteration, repetitive patterns?
Question e. Does the book support phonological awareness concepts such as songs, rhymes, poems, and matching pictures to words?