Using Picture Books in the Classroom
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5 to 6 p.m., April 9, 2024
K12 Educators! The next event in the UCLA LAI Children’s Literature Series for Educators is happening Tuesday, April 9 at 5:00 PM.
Join us for a presentation with Américas Award winning author Gloria Amescua. She will discuss her picture book biography “Child of The Flower-Song People: Luz Jiménez, Daughter of The Nahua.” The book tells the story of an Indigenous girl in Mexico who became a model for internationally celebrated 20th-century artists such as Diego Rivera and helped preserve the Nahuatl language and stories.
Amescua will discuss her inspiration, research, and writing processes for her picture book biography and address how picture books can be used in various ways to pique interest in topics, research, themes, structure, and poetic devices and lead to students’ creative writing activities.
Dr. Katrina Dillon of the Center for Latin American Studies at UArizona will provide a brief presentation on the Américas Award.
Contacts
Veronica Zavela