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Why Teachers Use Our Classroom Library
Educational Rationale for Our Classroom Library of Magic Storybooks
Kidz Classics Magic Storybooks are electronically produced, technology-driven children’s picture books; they make outstanding classroom teaching materials for these educational purposes:
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Student Literacy
Student Enrichment
Classroom Management and Motivation
Values Education
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I. STUDENT LITERACY
Reading competency for learning and pleasure is the basic skeletal structure of student success in and out of the classroom.
A. The best way to teach a child to read and love to read is to be read to.
B. Technology is here to stay, and children are captivated by it and unafraid of it.
C. The way to become a competent reader is to be exposed to many reading opportunities.
D. The hands-on process of manipulating the computer is good for directing a student’s energy.
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II. STUDENT ENRICHMENT
Classroom enrichment resources and experiences bring an enhanced quality of joy, beauty, texture, and understanding to education.
A. Enrichment is for all students from the remedial to the gifted.
B. Enrichment experiences take the student beyond the basics of learning to the next level.
C. Enrichment enhances all modalities of the curriculum and brings them alive, whether literature, social studies, science, or the arts.
D. Enrichment is that which helps to define our universal humanity.
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III. CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT AND MOTIVATION
Most teachers today have heterogeneous classrooms, where children have mixed levels of skill development in a variety of subjects. As a result, many teachers must sub-divide their lessons, and their classrooms, into myriad learning clusters.
A. Magic Storybooks adapts well under these conditions as focus of a learning center; teachers can use this for facilitating independent learning while teaching other clusters.
B. Both the content of the Magic Storybooks and the technology are motivating tools that captivate classroom students, both reluctant and eager learners.
C. When children are happily engaged in learning there are few disciplinary problems in the classroom.
D. Technology is the hook, the book’s content is the prize!
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IV. VALUES EDUCATION
Teachers have a responsibility to impart positive values to their students; these should be important universal human values that transcend gender, race, creed, or place of national origin.
A. The Magic Storybook in our Book Nook Classroom Library portray positive human values necessary for both personal and social growth and understanding.
B. These books raise the important questions on human values without being didactic or preachy.
C. These books cover a wide range of cultures, people, and experiences that would be appealing and instructive to many and varied children and their unique lives.
D. These books exhibit the universal themes of love, nurturing, forgiveness, and understanding for all peoples, animals, and the environment – and our need for a world of global citizenry.
E. These books engender the ideals of respect and celebration!
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