Common Core: Using Global Children's Literature and Digital Technologies [Paperback]

Common Core is an instructive book that enhances classroom teacher knowledge-base of global and multicultural literature texts, which as a result, deepens student appreciation for cultures around the world. Through use of technology and multicultural literature, Dr. Saine fires up the imagination of students, as she transports them to other cultures, countries and regions of the world. It is a highly nuanced text that builds bridges across cultures while meeting English Language Arts (ELA) standards. The text is likely to make a lasting contribution to this mostly neglected area of student cultural awareness and development.Paula Saine, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the College of Education, Health, & Society at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and has over thirty years of teaching experiences in K-16 and beyond. Her scholarly work is connected to literacy, culture, and the use of digital technologies in the classroom.

Dr. Paula Saine has produced a definitive work that uses literature and technology to connect early childhood students with persons from various cultures across the United States of America, and around the world. This book is written primarily to equip teachers with the knowledge-base of other cultures in order to inspire students to become culturally diverse and technologically proficient to enhance literacy. Her approach affords teachers an opportunity to help students fulfill one of the basic tenets of cultural proficiency, that of developing a value for diversity. In doing so, teachers build a balanced collection of culturally diverse childrens literature and through innovative technology, use it to help students better understand themselves and others. She has, as a result, developed a valuableteaching tool that fosters an inside-out process. Raymond Terrell, professor emeritus, Miami University, Oxford, OH

The communities we, and our children, live in are becoming increasingly global. A comprehensive and contemporary educatiolór