Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Blog of the Day: Educating Alice

Blog of the Day: Educating Alice

About the Blogger: Monica is a teacher; she's written books and articles on a number of subjects, including teaching history to children. And she's a fan of Alice in Wonderland.

About the Blog: Monica writes about children, children's literature, teaching children, teaching children using literature, and other sundry topics that come to her attention. I particularly like how she recognizes that there is no one size fits all for books and kids; she mentions how sometimes a class will adore one book, while other years, it's a "meh" reaction. Monica also talks about balance between being sensitive to students, yet challenging; and has written some great stuff about history, historical fiction and her concern with how fiction is used to teach history, and using primary sources to teach elementary students.

4 comments:

Monica Edinger said...

Liz, thanks so much!

Barbara Bietz said...

Hi Liz,

I am looking foward to checking out Monica's blog! I just dusted off my historical fictin manuscript and I'm sure I'll find some helpful information.

I really stopped by say I enjoyed your article about blogging in SLJ. Everyone is my local SCBWI is talking about it!

I'll be visiting your terrific blog again.

Thanks so much!

Barbara

Liz B said...

Monica, you're welcome

Barbara, thank you for the kind words about the article & I'll be adding your blog to my sidebar.

Barbara Bietz said...

Liz,

I'd be honored to be in your sidebar! I wil add you to mine, too!

Happy reading and writing!