Digital+Bibliotherapy

Bibliotherapy provides a means to allow students to express their emotions and fears in a safe place. The following tools, links, and blog give important strategies for integrating bibliotherapy in the classroom.

__**Educational PowerPoint:**__ The following powerpoint gives important information for presenting the strategy, the process, and the application of bibliotherapy in the classroom.

__**Movie Maker Integration:**__ The use of bibliotherapy in a classroom setting manifests itself in various forms. Students face issues that require various strategies to assist them as they cope successfully with these issues. The first day of school causes various anxieties and fears for students of all ages. The following video displays a use of Movie Maker as 5th grade students scanned pictures from an illustrated children's book and uploaded those pictures into movie maker. The students then read aloud the story to add the narration to their pictures. They saved the project as a video for a teacher to use in her classroom as she addresses her students' fears concerning the first day of school.

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__**Bibliotherapy Blog:**__ The following link to the blog, The Use of Bibliotherapy in Education, describes bibliotherapy and gives an example of a book trailer that students incorporate into the learning environment. Parents receive suggestions to implement bibliotherapy in the home with their children. Sympathetic friends and families learn the usefulness of bibliotherapy with various issues. The blog also furnishes several links containing extensive lists of books appropriate for the use in bibliotherapy. [|Bibliotherapy in Education]

__**Suggested Books as Resources:**__ Educators, parents, and other interested parties may find the following books helpful as these books provide a plethora of annotated listings of books by topic. Some of these topics include: adoption, bullying, friends, strangers, dying, illness, death, doctor and dentist visits, and family issues.

Grace,C., & Shores, E.F. (2010). Afterthe crisis.Silver Spring, MD: Gryphon House, Inc. Pardeck,J.T., & Pardeck, J.A. (1994). Bibliotherapy: A clinical approach forhelping children. Springfield, MI: Gordon and Breach Publishers. Recob,Amy. (2008). Bibliotherapy: When kids need help. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse.

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__**Credits:**__ Delisle,J., & Galbraith, J. (2002). Whengifted kids don’t have all the answers: How to meet their social and emotional needs (pp. 112-116). Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit Publishing, Inc. Electronic reference formats recommendedby Library Booklists, Children’s Bibliotherapy and Realistic Fiction. (2010). Retrieved July 11, 2011 from __ [] __. Electronic reference formats byWikipedia, Bibliotherapy. RetrievedJuly 11, 2010 from __ [] __. Fisher,T. (2009, March 15). In Unwrapping the gifted: using bibliotherapy with giftedchildren. Education Week. Retrieved July 11, 2011 from __ [] __. Goddard, A.T. (2011, January 1). In Journal of Pediatric Health Care: children’s books for use in bibliotherapy. Retrieved July11, 2011 from __ [] __. Grace,C., & Shores, E.F. (2010). Afterthe crisis.Silver Spring, MD: Gryphon House, Inc. Graff,L. (2009). Umbrella summer. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers. 232p. McIntyre,T. (2010). Bibliotherapy.RetrievedJuly 11, 2011 from __ [] __. Ohler, J. (2008). Digital storytelling in the classroom. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. (ISBN: 978-1-4129-3850-1). Pardeck,J.T., & Pardeck, J.A. (1994). Bibliotherapy: A clinical approach forhelping children. Springfield, MI: Gordon and Breach Publishers. Recob,Amy. (2008). Bibliotherapy: When kids need help. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse. Rizza,M. (1997). In Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talented Development: aparent’s guide to helping children: using bibliotherapy at home. Retrieved July 11, 2011 from __ [] __. Rozalski, M., Stewart, A.L., & Miller, J. (2010). Bibliotherapy: Helping children cope with life’s challenges. Kappa Delta Pi Record. Solomon, G. & Schrum, L. (2010). Web 2.0: How-to for educators. USA: ISTE. (ISBN: 978-1-56484-272-5).