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Arthur’s World Neighborhood: Bibliography for Kids HandoutArthur’s World Neighborhood: Bibliography for Kids Handout
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PBS
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1st - 5th
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Social Studies & History
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Year
2003
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Arthur’s World Neighborhood: Bibliography for Kids

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Support young learners as they expand their cultural awareness with this list of children's literature on countries from around the globe. Including both fictional and non-fictional texts. This resource will help students across the primary grades come to appreciate the wonderful diversity the world has to offer.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

children's literature, countries, cultural awareness, diversity, world cultures, world geography, Research

Additional Tags

countries, Research, children's literature, world cultures, diversity, cultural awareness, world geography, social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Offer this handout to students as they begin performing research for a writing reports on different countries
  • Use this list to select books from the school or local public library that complement geography lessons on specific countries
  • Read aloud multiple books about a single country and compare and contrast the information presented in each
  • Have students compare and contrast literature from other cultures with that of their own culture

Pros

  • List is alphabetized and countries are organized by continent
  • Resources are provided for 88 different countries from around the world
  • Bibliography is included as part of a unit on diversity and cultural awareness
  • Offers websites to use when searching for resources on the United States

Cons

  • Some of the resources are over 20 years old and may include out-of-date information

Common Core

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