Resources From Professor Kathy Short

Children's literature, reader response, literature and literacy instruction, inquiry-based curriculum, and teacher research.

The following syllabi will download as a PDF file:

• TLS 385 Learning about Adolescence through YA Literature

• TLS 386 Global Citizenship Syllabus​

• TLS 480 Children's Literature in the Classroom

• TLS 480 Goals and key experiences

• TLS 482 Bilingual Children's Literature Syllabus

• TLS 482 Goals and key experiences, Bilingual Children's Literature​

• TLS 576 Teacher Research

• TLS 579 Literature and Literacy for Young Children

• TLS 582 The Art of the Picturebook

• TLS 585 Literature for Adolescents​

• TLS 586 Reading the World through Children’s and Adolescent Literature

• TLS 680 Reader Response Theories

• TSL 681 Critical Content Analysis of Text and Image

• TLS 696a Writing for Academic Publication

• TLS 795d Influential Readings in Language, Reading, and Culture

• Research proposal

• Research Report Format

Books

Books can be purchased by clicking on the title 

• Johnson, H., Mathis, J., & Short, K. (2019). Critical Content Analysis of Visual Images in Books for Young People. New York: Routledge
• Johnson, H., Mathis, J., & Short, K. (2016). Critical Content Analysis of Children’s and Young Adult Literature. New York: Routledge
• Short, K., Day, D., & Schroeder, J. (2016). Teaching Globally: Reading the World through Literature. Portsmouth, ME: Stenhouse
• Short, K., Lynch-Brown, C. & Tomlinson, C. (2018). Essentials of Children’s Literature, 9th Ed., New York: Pearson
• Short, K. & Fox, D. (2003).  Story Matters: The Complexity of Cultural Authenticity in Children’s Literature.  Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.
• Short, K. G. with Birchak, B., Connor, C., Crawford, K., Kahn, L., Kaser, S. Turner, S.  (1998). Teacher Study Groups: Building Community through Dialogue and Reflection.  Urbana, IL:  NCTE.
• Short, K. G. (1997). Literature As a Way of Knowing.  York, ME:  Stenhouse.
• Short, K. G., Schroeder, J., Laird, J., Kauffman, G., Ferguson, M., &  Crawford, K.M.  (1996).  Learning Together Through Inquiry.  York, ME:  Stenhouse. 
• Short, K.G. & Harste, J., with Burke, C. (1996). Creating Classrooms for Authors and Inquirers.  Portsmouth, NH:  Heinemann. 
• Short, K.G., Senior Author and Editor (1995).  Research and Professional Resources in Children's Literature.International Reading Association.
• Short, K. G. (1993).  Ed, Teachers as Researchers: A Yearbook of Reflection and Action.  Newark: International Reading  Association. Co-Editors: L. Patterson, C. Santa, K. Smith.
• Short, K. G. & Burke, C. (1991).  Creating Curriculum: Teachers and Students Creating Communities of Learners.  Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.  

Articles

The following articles will download as either PDF or MSWord files:

Children's Literature and Responses

• What’s Trending in Children’s Literature and Why It Matters
• Building Teachers' Understandings of Art as Meaning-Making in Picture Books
• Critical Conversations about Identity
• Cultural Authenticity in Children's Literature
• Examining our Beliefs and Practices Through Inquiry
• Examining Prejudice through Children's Responses to Literature and the Arts
• Exploring Culture through Children's Connections
• Making Connections Across Literature and Life
• Responding to Literature Across Multiple Sign Systems
• "Teacher Watching": Examining Teacher Talk in Literature Circles
• Journeying through Life and Literature

Global Curriculum and Intercultural Understanding

• Children’s Agency for Taking Action
• Critically Reading the Word and the World
• The Dangers of Reading Globally
• Story as World Building
• Building Bridges of Understanding through International Literature
• Children Taking Action within Global Inquiries
• Critically Reading the Word and the World
• Developing Intercultural Understanding through Global Children's Literature
• Exploring a Curriculum that is International
• Story as World Making
• Children's Agency for Taking Action

Inquiry as Curriculum

• Children Taking Action within Global Inquiries
• Curriculum as Inquiry
• Inquiry as a Stance
• Integrating Literature into the Science Curriculum
• Inquiry, Curriculum, and Standards
• Sign Systems Within the Inquiry Cycle

Literacy

• Globalizing the Common Core State Standards (online pub)
• Creating a Community of Learners
• Hearing Student Voices: The Role of Reflection in Learning
• The Search for "Balance" in a Literature-Rich Curriculum
• The Role of Story in a World of Tests and Standards
• Reading Literature in Elementary Classrooms

Other

• Advocacy as Capacity Building
• Reflections on Writing for Publication
• Exploring the Critical in Critical Content Analysis

The following book lists will download as a PDF:

• Exploring Cultural Identity
• Forced Journey Web and Text Sets
• Kids Taking Action
• Paired Book Examples
• Paired Books—Global
• Refugee Children’s and YA Literature
• War and Peace Text Sets
• K-12 Global Reading Lists
• Language and Culture and Global Story Box Book Lists
• Family Story Backpack Book Lists

Illustrations and Art Text Sets

• Books about Bookmaking
• Children’s Books about Art Museums
• Styles of Illustration Text Sets
• Children’s Fiction about Art
• Elements of Art Text Sets
• Elements of Art – Concept Books
• Media of Illustration Text Sets
• Postmodern Picturebooks
• Visual Journals & Sketch Journals
• Fear & Scary Text Sets
• Book Design Text Sets – Exterior
• Book Design Text Sets - Interior

The following articles will download as PDF files:

• Strategies to Encourage Dialogue
• Anomalies
• Book Pass
• Compass Points
• Connect-Extend-Challenge
• Consensus Board
• Cultural X-Rays
• Diamond Ranking
• Generative Theme Connections
• Global Thinking
• Graffiti Board
• Neighborhood Memory Maps
• Save the Last Word for Me
• Sketch to Stretch
• Story Ray
• Say Something
• Text Rendering Protocol