The idea of this course is to expose the students to as much literature and educational ideals as possible.  But the course also encourages students to use new technologies to make children and students more interested in literature in reading through short video reviews by the students.  This course is designed to fulfill the ideas of the ALA competencies.

2.1 – Literature: Candidates will be familiar with a wide range of children’s, young adult, and professional literature in multiple formats and languages to support reading for information, reading for pleasure, and reading for lifelong learning.
2.2 – Reading Promotion: Candidates will be able to use a variety of strategies to promote leisure reading and model personal enjoyment of reading in order to promote habits of creative expression and lifelong reading.
2.3 – Respect for Diversity: Candidates demonstrate the ability to develop a collection of reading and information materials in print and digital formats that support the diverse developmental, cultural, social, and linguistic needs of P-12 students and their communities.
2.4- Literacy Strategies: Candidates collaborate with classroom teachers to reinforce a wide variety of reading instructional strategies to ensure P-12 students are able to create meaning from text.

Final Book List-This was the culmination of the class reading.  For most of the course, students were required to read several young adult books across different genres and review the works as critically as able.
Common Core Assignment– This assignment required the students to look at various articles and assign aspects of the Common Core Standards to those articles reviewed.
Videos Summaries:
Gentlehands on Youtube– This a short video review of the book Gentlehands by M.E. Kerr
Phineas Gage on Youtube– This is a short video review of the book Phineas Gage: A Gruemsome but True Story of Brain Science by John Fleishman
Inkheart on Youtube– This is a short video review of the book Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Tuesdays with Morrie on Youtube– This is a short video review of the book Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom