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Multicultural Children's Literature in the Elementary Classroom. ERIC Digest

Arguing that schools need to prepare all children to become competent citizens and to create an environment that fosters mutual understanding, this Digest discusses multicultural children's literature in the elementary classroom. It discusses the importance of multicultural children's literature and presents guidelines for selecting multicultural children's literature. The Digest also lists specialized selection sources and review journals, and offers web addresses of selected lists/awards dealing with multicultural children's literature. Contains seven references. (RS)

• Author/Creator: Lu, Mei-Yu Corp Author Eric Clearinghouse on Reading English, Communication, Bloomington I. N.
• Author's address: ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication, Indiana University, 2805 E. 10th Street, Suite 150, Bloomington, IN 47408-2698.
• Date Published: 00-00
• Notes: Connect to the catalog at the library of the University of Colorado at Boulder. English Report No: EDO-CS-98-06 Funding: Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC. RR93002011/ Audience: Practitioners/ Teachers/ Report: EDO-CS-98-06 Document (RIE) 071 Information Analyses--ERIC IAPs; 073 Eric Digest in Full Text EDRS: EDRS Price MF01/PC01 Plus Postage.
• Year: 1998

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Multicultural Educational Practices
• Subject: Elementary Education
• Subject: Elementary School Curriculum
• Subject: Multicultural Education
• Subject: Reading Material Selection
• Subject: Scholarly Journals

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