|
|
 |
 |
©CorelDRAW®9 |
The concept of books being
provides teachers and students with endless possibilities
to explore. |
Students at all levels could search for picture books, novels
and nonfiction that contain literal doorways.
For example:
- Dog In, Cat Out by Gillian
Rubinstein & Ann James
- Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten by
Bob Graham
- Shutting the Chooks In by Libby
Gleeson and Ann James
- Slinky Malinki Open the Door
by Lynley Dodd
- Squeak Street by Emily
Rodda and Andrew McLean
- Billy Thunder and the Night
Gate by Isobelle Carmody
- The Doorways Trilogy by
Michael Pryor
- His Dark Materials Trilogy
by Philip Pullman
- Alice in Wonderland by
Lewis Carroll
- The Chronicles of Narnia
by C.S. Lewis
- The Indian in the Cupboard by
Lynne Reid Banks
- The Secret Garden by Frances
Hodgson Burnett
- The Wishing Cupboard by
Libby Hathorn and Elizabeth Stanley
- The Keys to the Kingdom,
Garth Nix's latest fantasy series
- Nonfiction texts about buildings
and architecture
|
However, as Katherine
Paterson wrote in Gates of Excellence: Fiction allows
us to do something that nothing else quite does. It allows us
to enter fully into the lives of other human beings.
On a metaphorical level then, all books can be viewed as Doorways
into other lives, other cultures, other worlds, other times,
other values or Doorways into the imagination.
For example, Naomi Mairou's
Children's Book Week Banner for Doorways shows a child
in that other country of Africa and its animals. |
Choose an approach that best meets the needs and interests of
your students. Allow them the opportunity to sample some great
literature - to explore who and what we are, our strengths
and our flaws, our past and our future. [Susan
Clancy in Back to Books: Creating a Focus on Fiction Vol
1. p.1]
Depending on the Phase of Development,
interests and abilities of your students there are various ways
of approaching a theme related to .
The different approaches are suggestions organised according
to what is considered to be appropriate to students' interests
and abilities in each Phase of Development.
| | |
