Thursday, October 2, 2008

MCTE 2008 - Dialects in Children’s and Young Adult Literature – Pedagogical Considerations

Bank Street College Library Site has an excellent list of children's literature containing dialects.

Here's a link to the English Journal (NCTE) article that I wrote with Dr. Marilyn Wilson.

From the EJ article, our recommended picture books (PB) and young adult books (YA) that contain authentic examples of American English dialects

A Washington Post article describing the New York Nappy Hair controversy in 1998

A NY Times article about the incident

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