{"id":233171,"date":"2010-01-26T10:20:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T15:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2255"},"modified":"2010-01-26T10:20:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T15:20:57","slug":"teaching-geography-with-children%e2%80%99s-literature-where-do-i-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/233171","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Geography with Children\u2019s Literature: Where Do I Live?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the book , Where Do I Live?<\/a>,\u00a0 written by Neil Chesanow and illustrated by Ann Iosa, the reader goes on an adventure that starts in his bedroom and leads into the great universe. \u00a0 Chesanow expands on the reader’s concept of the world by moving outside of the bedroom to the house to the neighborhood to the state and eventually into outer space.\u00a0 With the turn of a page, the reader can get a bird’s eye view of the world around him.\u00a0 I especially like the way Chesanow starts the reader with what he can see everyday, like his bedroom, his house, and his street.\u00a0 Then Chesanow takes the reader higher to view the neighborhood, city, state, country and world.\u00a0 Making the connection of each smaller part to the larger world should help kids see how maps and the globe represent real images on Earth.\u00a0 The words start basic and the pictures are clear.\u00a0 “You live on a special piece of land.\u00a0 Do you know what land is?\u00a0 It’s the stuff you walk on.\u00a0 It’s the ground.” \u00a0 New words for kindergarten or 1st grade students might be neighborhood, city, suburb, country, state, continent, solar system, galaxy, and universe.\u00a0 After taking the reader into outer space, Chesanow guides the reader slowly back to home, making a perfect review of the concepts just introduced.<\/p>\n

Curriculum Connections:\u00a0 This book is ideal for grades K-1st with the introduction of map concepts and vocabulary such as country, state, and continent.\u00a0 This book shows how each person is part of a neighborhood, city, state, and world all at the same time.<\/p>\n

Where Do I Live? can be used to teach VA Standards of Learning:\u00a0 K.5 , K.4 and parts of 1.4.\u00a0 The students will be introduced to maps, a round Earth, and land.\u00a0 Students will see maps representing large land masses and objects from above.\u00a0 Students will be able to see where they live compared to where people from other states, countries, and continents live.<\/p>\n

Additional Resources<\/p>\n

\u00a0The song Where Do I Live?<\/a> and other geography songs<\/a> can be used to reiterate the concepts of maps, regions, and communities that were introduced in the book as well as to teach other map terminology.<\/p>\n

For hands on fun, have students try out their own map drawing skills.<\/a><\/p>\n

There are websites available for printing maps<\/a> for students to use and for online interactive maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n

General Information:<\/p>\n

Book:\u00a0 Where Do I Live?<\/a>
\nAuthor:\u00a0 Neil Chesanow<\/a>
\nIllustrator:\u00a0 Ann Iosa<\/a>
\nPublisher:\u00a0 Barron’s Educational Series
\nPublication Date:\u00a0 1995
\nPages:\u00a0 48
\nGrades: K-1
\nISBN: 0-8120-6541-7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the book , Where Do I Live?,\u00a0 written by Neil Chesanow and illustrated by Ann Iosa, the reader goes on an adventure that starts in his bedroom and leads into the great universe. \u00a0 Chesanow expands on the reader’s concept of the world by moving outside of the bedroom to the house to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}