
There is quite a lot of material on the
Web describing how my books can be used in teaching. Here are
a number of links to information of potential use to teachers.
Please note that the purpose of listing here is not to endorse
but to inform. I am also providing the opportunity to share your
ideas and experiences of working with my books with other teachers
and librarians.
USING MY BOOKS Links to many sites where activities and/or lesson plans are reported
Interview with the Internet Writing Journal, June 2002. On science fiction and fantasy. Interview on writing for children in Commitment, an internet magazine. General interview (July 5, 1995). Science fiction interview on SCIFI.COM Educational
Paperback Association's entry
on Jane Interview in Scholastic's Authors Online
SOME INTERESTING SITES FOR TEACHERS AND LIBRARIANS An essay for the Children's Book Council. Cynthia Leitich Smith Children's Literature Resources. The Children's Literature Web Guide. Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC) Children's Literature & Language Arts Resources. David Leahy's Connecting Students site provides themes, units, worksheets, lesson plans, and help for connecting students to the web. The Elementary Science Support Center at Purdue offers science activities, curriculum resources, and professional development workshops that support activity based K-8 science. The center supports authentic, problem-based science learning that assist schools and teachers in meeting national and state science standards. The Endicott Studio site is a very rich source of material about myths, folklore and fairy tales, especially its links page. Five in a Row is a site offering home schoolers resources in children's literature. The Internet Public Library Youth Division has links to a lot of good information about authors and literature. Lightspan.com is a large source of information and links for online
learning. Kay E. Vandergrift's Special Interest Page for links to information on different aspects of children's literature.
MISCELLANY An article discussing, inter alia, a visit to Penn State by Patty Maclachlan and me. "The Children's Writer: Jane Yolen" A straight-forward conversation/interview with me in my home in Massachusetts about writing children's books. "Good
Conversations: A Talk with Jane Yolen" This is a delightful video interview of me in Scotland, as I take the camera crew and Tim Podell on a walkabout of St Andrews and read from a Scottish-set story of mine on a fifteenth century seawall overlooking Anstruther Harbor.
© 2000 by Jane Yolen
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