GED 603 - Studying Author’s Craft: Reading and Writing Children’s Literature

Children develop literacy through exposure to the best literature. But what makes “the best” literature? How can analysis both enhance appreciation and stimulate one’s own creative expression? In this course, participants will sharpen their reading skills by reading and discussing a selection of picture books, easy readers and novels and writing their own stories and novel chapters. By paying equally close attention to other writers’ work and their own efforts, participants will develop their own writing voices, strengthen their powers of observation and deepen their understanding of the writing process for themselves and their students. For a final project, participants will produce a picture book text or novel chapter (or two or three).

Credits: 3 cr.

Miscellaneous Notes:
This course may be applied as an elective in either the Arts in Education or Reading concentrations.