LITERATURE FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING BIBLIOGRAPHY

Mary Lou McCloskey, Ph.D.

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Books for Learners

Alphabets

Just Pictures/Wordless Stories

Picture Books, Stories, & Storytelling

Nonfiction

Poetry/Songs

Picture/Vocabulary Sources

Easy Reader Sets

Annotated Bibliographies

 

Books for Educators

Resources for Teaching Literature and Reading to Learners of English

 

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Alphabets
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Ehlert, Lois. (1989). Eating the alphabet. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Feelings, Muriel. (1974). Jambo means hello: Swahili alphabet book. New York: Dial Books.
Graeme, B. (1986). Animalia. New York: Harry N. Abrams.
Lobel, Arnold. (1981). On market street. New York: Greenwillow.
Pellitier, David. (1996). The graphic alphabet. New York: Orchard. ISBN: 0-531-36001-6
Van Allsburg, Chris. (1987). The Z was zapped. New York: Houghton Mifflin.

Just Pictures/Wordless Stories back to top

Allen, Marjorie N. & Rotner, Shelley. Changes. New York: Simon & Schuster Aladdin Paperbacks.

Anno, Misumasa. (1977) Journey. London: Bodley Head. (Look for others by this author)

Baker, Jeannie. (1993). Window. New York: Penguin Group, Puffin Books.

Carle, Eric. (1971). Do you want to be my friend? New York: Crowell. (Look for others by this author)

Hogrogian, Nonny. (1971). One fine day. London: Macmillan. (Look for others by this author)

Hoban, Tana. (1971). Look again. London: Macmillan. (Look for others by this author)

Picture Books, Stories, Storytelling back to top

Aardema, Verna. (1975). Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears: A West African tale. New York: Dial.

Angelou, Maya. (1994). My painted house, my friendly chicken, and me. New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers. (With Margaret Courtney-Clarke's photographs of the Ndebele in South Africa.)

Blake, William. (1993). The tyger. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. (Neil Waldmans illustrations)

Bridwell, Norman. (Translation:1998). Clifford the big red dog. New York: Scholastic. (The Multi-lingual collection is available in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Portuguese, Haitian, Creole, Russian, Polish, Arabic, and Korean.)

Carle, E. (1984). The very busy spider. New York: Philomel Books. ISBN 0-399-21166-7

de Paola, T. (1981). Now one foot, now the other. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 0-399-20774-0
Gray, Nigel. (1988). A country far away. London: Magi.

Delacre, Lulu. (1996). Golden tales: Myths. Legends and folktales form Latin America. New York: Scholastic. ISBN: 0-590-48187-8

Dooley, Norah. (1991). Everybody cooks rice. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, Inc.

Geras, Adele. (1997). The Random House book of opera stories. New York: Random House. ISBN: 0-679-89315-6

Heide, F. P. & Gilliland, J.H. (1992). The day of Ahmed's secret. London: Victor Gollancz LTD. ISBN 0-575-05132-9

Herron, Carolivia. (1997). Nappy hair. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN:0-679-87937-4

Jackson, Alison. (1997). I know an old lady who swallowed a pie. New York: Dutton Children's Books. ISBN: 0-525-45645-7

Knight, Margy Burns. (1996). Talking walls: The stories continue. Gardiner, Maine: Tilbury House. ISBN: 0-88448-165-4

Knight, Margy Burns. (1993). Who belongs here? An American story. Gardiner, Maine Tilbury House. ISBN: 0-88448-169-7

Paek, Min. (1988). Aekyung=s dream. San Francisco: Children=s Book Press. (Check out all the books from this publisher.)

Pellowski, A. (1984). The story vine: A source book of unusual and easy-to-tell stories from around the world. New York, NY: Collier Books/ Macmillan Publishing Company. ISBN 0-02-044690-X

Martin, B., Jr. (1983). Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 0-8050-0201-4

Minters, Frances. (1994.) Cinder-Elly. New York: Viking. (The New York City version. One of dozens of multi-cultural versions of the Cinderella story. Ask a children=s librarian.)

Say, Allen. (1982). The bicycle man. New York: Scholastic. (Based on a true events from Say=s childhood, during the US occupation of Japan after World War II.) ISBN: 0-590-44196-5

Wheatley, Nadia & Rawlins, Donna. (1987). My place. Blackburn, Victoria, Australia: Collins Dove, 1987.

Yolen, Jane. (Ed.) (1986). Favorite folktales from around the world. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.

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Zoobooks. Magazine published by the San Diego Zoo. Available as books.

National Geographic World.

Ranger Rick

Check out the J section of your public library. Often, pictures and captions will be very useful with literacy-level students.

Duggelby, John. (1998). Stoy painter: The life of Jacob Lawrence. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. ISBN: 0-8118-2082-3

Joslin, Sesyle. (1958). What do you say, dear? A book of manners for all occasions. New York: Young Scott. (Illustrated by Maurice Sendak)

Poetry/Songs
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Blood-Patterson, P. (1988). Rise up Singing: 1200 Songs, Words, Chords, Sources. Bethlehem, PA: Sing Out.

Booth, D. (1989). 'Til all the stars have fallen: A collection of poems for children. Markham, Ontario, Canada: Penguin Books.

Bruchac, J. Ed. (1983). Songs from the earth on turtle's back. New York: The Greenfield Review Press.

Cole, J. (1989). Anna banana: 101 jump-rope rhymes. New York: Morrow Junior Books.

de Reigniers, B. S. (1988). Sing a song of popcorn. New York: Scholastic.

Fadiman, Clifton (1985). The world treasury of children's literature. (Vols. 1-3). Boston: Little, Brown and Co.

Greenfield, E. (1978). Honey, I love and other love poems. New York: Harper & Row.

Hughes, Langston (poems) and Beardon, Romare (collage) (1995.) The block. New York: The Metropolitan Meseum of Art. ISBN: 0-670-86501-x

Koch, K & Farrell, K. (1982). Sleeping on the wing. New York: Vintage Books.

Koch, K & Farrell, K. (1985). Talking to the sun. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

McCloskey, M. L., Linse, C. & Hooper, S. (1991). Teaching language, literature, and culture. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley.

McCloskey, M. L. & Stack, L. (1993). Voices in literature. Boston MA: Heinle & Heinle.

Prelutsky, J. (1983). Random house book of poetry for children. New York: Random House.

Schwartz, Alvin. 1992. And the green grass grew all around: Folk poetry for everyone. New York: HarperCollins

Wilner, I. (1977). The poetry troupe: an anthology of poems to read aloud. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Prelutsky, J. (Ed.). (1986). Read-aloud rhymes for the very young. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher. ISBN 0-394-87218-5

The real mother goose. (1944). Chicago: Rand McNally & Co. ISBN 528-82322-1

Schwartz, Alvin. 1992. And the Green Grass Grew All Around Folk Poetry from Everyone. New York: HarperCollins

Wilner, I. (1977). The Poetry Troupe: An Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.


Picture/Vocabulary Sources
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The Addison-Wesley picture dictionary. (1984). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. ISBN 0-201-09600-5

Crane, F. (1994). Harcourt Brace picture dictionary. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace & Company. ISBN 0-15-599427-1

Shapiro, Norma and Genser, Carol. (1994). Chalk Talks. Berkeley, CA: Command Performance Language Institute. TPR Storytelling and dictionary of symbols.

Shapiro, Norma & Adelson-Goldstein Jayme. (1998). The Oxford Picture Dictionary. New York: Oxford University Press. (Bilingual editions available in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Polish, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Haitian, and Cambodian).

 

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Bank Street Ready to Read

Scholastic Hello Reader!, WiggleWorks, etc. <http://www.scholastic.com>

Random House Step into Reading

Steck-Vaughan Pair-It Books (One of each pair is a storybook; the other is a related non-fiction book) < http://www.steck-vaughn.com>

Wright Group programs <http://www.wrightgroup.com>

Annotated Bibliographies back to top

Benedict, Susan & Carlisle, Lenore. (1992). Beyond words: Picture books for older readers and writers. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann.

Kezwer, P. (1995). Worlds of wonder: Resources for multicultural children's literature. Toronto, ON: Pippin Publishing Limited. (Annotated bibliography of children=s books) ISBN 0-88751-065-5

Smallwood, Betty. (1990). The literature connection: A read-aloud guide for multicultural classrooms. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.

 

Books for Educators back to top

Resources for Teaching Literature and Reading to Learners of English

Atwell, N. (1998). In the middle: New understandings about writing, reading, and learning. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Benedict, S. & Carlisle, L. (1992). Beyond words: Picture books for older readers and writers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Blood, P. & Patterson, A. (Eds.) (1992). Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook. Bethlehem, PA: Sing Out Corporation. ISBN: 0962670472

Craik, F. I. M. & Tulving, E. (1975). Depth of processing and the retention of words in episodic memory. Journal of experimental Psychology, 104, 268-293.

Crystal, D. (1997). English as a global language. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Curtain, H. A. & Pesola, C. A (1988). Languages and children: Making the match -- foreign language instruction in the elementary school. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Elley, W. B. & Mangubhai, F. (1983). The impact of reading on second language learning. Reading Research Quarterly, 19, 53-67.

Enright, D. S. & McCloskey, M. L. (1988). Integrating English: Developing English language and literacy in the multilingual classroom. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1988.

Fountas, I.C. & Pinnel, G.S. (1996). Guided reading: Good first teaching for all children. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. 0-435-08863-7

Gardner, H. (1993). Multiple intelligences: The theory in practice. New York: Basic Books.

Hayes, C. W., Bahruth, R., & Kessler, C. Literacy con carino. Portsmouth, NY: Heinemann, 1991.

Kezwer, P. (1995). Worlds of wonder: Resources for multicultural children's literature.

Spangenbertg-Urbschat, S. & Pritchard, R. (1994). Kids come in all languages: Reading instruciton for ESL students. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

McCloskey, M. L. (1998). Integrated language teaching strategies. Atlanta, GA: Educo.

McCloskey, M. L., Linse, C., and Hooper, S. (1991). Teaching language, literature, and culture. Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley.

McCloskey, M. L. & Stack, L. (1993). Voices in literature: Integrated language and literature for ESOL. Boston, MA: Heinle & Heinle.

Peregoy, S.F. & Boyle, F. B. (1997). Reading, Writing, and learning in ESL. New York: Longman.

Richard-Amato, P. A. (1988). Making it happen: Interaction in the second language classroom. New York: Longman.

Schiffini, A. (1996). Reading Instruction for the Pre-Literate and Struggling Older Student. NABE News, December 15.

Silwyester, R. (1995). A celebration of neurons: An educator's guide to the human brain. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.

Sleeter, C.E. (1991). Empowerment through multicultural education. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Tharpe, R.G. & Gallimore, G. (1991). Rousing minds to life: Teaching, learning and schooling in social context. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Palinscar, A.S. (1996). The role of dialogue in scaffolded instruction. Educational Psychology, 21:71-9.

Beck, I.L., McKeown, M.G., et al. (1997). Questioning the author. Newark, DE: International Reading Association. 00-87207-242-8

Fountas, I.C. & Pinnel, G.S. (1996). Guided reading: Good first teaching for all children. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. 0-435-08863-7

Gibbons, P. (1993). Learning to learn in a second language. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Robb, L. (1995). Reading strategies that work. New York: Scholastic professional books. 0-590-25111-2

Ruddel, R. B. & Reddel, M. R. (1995). Teaching children to read and write: Becoming. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. 0-205-13788-1

Stahl, S.A. & Hayes, D.A. (1997). Instructional models in reading. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates. 0-8058-2286-0

Yopp, H.D. & Yopp, R.H. (1996). Literature-based reading activities. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. 0-205-16387-4

Mary Lou McCloskey, Ph.D.

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