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In this course, participants will immerse themselves in the study of a wide variety of children’s literature including traditional and nontraditional texts, informational texts, and media texts. Participants will understand the different variables for choosing texts by class and individual child. Participants will use research and literary criticism, along with their deepening content knowledge, to develop a lens for analyzing texts in terms of possible instructional purposes, student access and interests, and issues of equity (both for biased representations and the cultural and linguistic challenges of texts). Participants will examine the use of assessment strategies to select and design instruction to meet specific learning goals and will monitor progress. Data will be used to plan further lessons, systematically mark growth, and differentiate instruction for student success.