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Your gateway to exuberant new ideas |
 Teachers
and librarians all over the world have read
Charlotte’s books
aloud
to their classes, and used the ideas, images, feelings, and/or structures to
spark writing, thinking, and exploring in their classrooms. Are you
one of them?
If so,
please use the
form or simply email
charlottesdaughter@charlottezolotow.com to share your ideas with colleagues.
(To
left: the cover of Over and Over)
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When you have the honey |
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The beauty of
literature-based learning, particularly when the literature is a book you
yourself love, is that “When you have the honey, you don’t need to invite the
ants,” as a good friend once told Charlotte’s daughter. Your own enthusiasm, and
the strength of all compelling good reads --- however they compel readers --- is
that both exert an irresistible attraction. Students aren’t force-fed; they’re
happily, naturally, lapping it up and asking for seconds. |
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Since
you have found your way here, you may have already created your own CZ-related
classroom projects. If you have, and you’d like to share them with other
colleagues, please drop us a note on the
form
found here or simply email
charlottesdaughter@charlottezolotow.com. |
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Winged traveling shoes for your students (and their teacher)
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If you’d like to
use Charlotte’s books in teaching,
here’s a list of topics and concepts,
using specific books by
Charlotte. This click-on resource will lead you
to dozens of possible destinations, and countless ways to reach them.
You’ll find suggestions as to:
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questions
a particular book might give rise to
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a
book’s relevant connections to other classroom subjects
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age-specific
projects galore
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Exploring family history and research,
continuity, and concepts of self, and community, using
This Quiet Lady
and/or The
Sky Was Blue |
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neighbors and neighborhood
using
I Know A Lady
while developing
research skills, and expanded thinking about geography, civics, and
social studies. |
 Expanding
imagination and self-concept
using
Someday
while developing writing skills, empathy, and the ability to observe
oneself.
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Developing a sense of time, the repetition of the seasons,
holidays, and the
cycles of life using
Over and Over |
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Share you good ideas |
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Over the years
Charlotte and her daughter, Crescent Dragonwagon, have been impressed,
pleased, and often astonished at the innovative and creative use
teachers and librarians have made of CZ’s books. Have you used a
particular CZ book in your classroom? Do you think your idea would
translate to other classrooms? If so, help out your fellow hard-working,
perennially-strapped-by-dwindling-school-budgets, dedicated educators,
by sharing your ideas. We will post them here. |
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