Literacy Matters Vol. 23 Winter 2023

Prince, A. M. T., & Hayden, H. E. (2021). Repositioning disability in children’s picture books through classroom read-Alouds. TEACHING Exceptional Children, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00400599211038299 Taft, R. J., Hotchkiss, J. L., & Lee, D. (2016). Efficacy of music therapy and bibliotherapy as interventions in the treatment of children with EBD: A literature review. International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research , 15 (10), 113-129. Tondreau, A., & Barnes, Z.T. (2021), Embedding diverse children’s literature throughout a teacher preparation program, in D. Hartsfield (Ed). Handbook of research on teaching diverse youth literature to pre-service professionals (pp. 501-524). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7375-4.ch025

U. Gordon (Ed.). Bullying Prevention and Intervention at School. Integrating theory and research into best practices (pp. 37-52). Springer.

Wilkins, J., Howe, K., Sieloff, M., Rowan, S., & Lilly, E. (2016). Exploring elementary students’ perceptions of disabilities using children’s literature. British Journal of Special Education, 43(3), 233-249.https://doi.org/10.1111/1467 8578.12138 Prater, M. A., Dyches, T. T., Johnstun, M. (2006). Teaching students about learning disabilities through children’s literature. Intervention in School and Clinic 42 (1), 14-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/10534512060420010301 Nganga, L. (2020). Analyzing children’s literature for hidden bias helps preservice teachers gain pedagogical practices in critical multicultural education. Journal of Research in Childhood Education , 34 (1), 93-107. DeVries, D. & Sunden, S. (2019). Bibliotherapy with children who have a sibling with a disability. Journal of Poetry therapy, 32(2), 135-155. DOI: 10.1080/08893675.2019.1625147

Tondreau, A. & Rabinowitz, L. (2021). Analyzing representations of individuals with disabilities in picture books. The Reading Teacher 75 (1), 61-71.

Literacy Matters Feature Article

Sotirovska, V. & Vaughn, M. (2022). The portrayal of dyslexia in children’s picture books. Early Childhood Education Journal 50 , 741-742. https://doi.org/10.1007/ s10643-021-01196-z

Zepeda, E. (2020). Bibliotherapy: A Tool to Increase Social and Emotional Learning in the Classroom (Doctoral dissertation, Alliant International University).

Trent, K. P., & Richards, S. J. (2018). Bibliotherapy as a strategy for bullying prevention. In J.

S Elke Schneider received her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and Literature in 1997 from the University of Eichstäett, Germany where she specialized in foreign/second language learning and learning disabilities. For almost 30 years, she has taught literacy and special education courses at universities and teacher education centers in the US and internationally focusing on multimodal research-evidenced instruction and the use of diversity-sensitive children’s and adolescent literature. For the past 20 years, she has been at Winthrop University where she has also has been providing statewide teacher training to meet the literacy and acculturation needs of multilingual learners in the general education classroom through three large federal grants for the past 16 years.

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