Description

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This is a student edition of Childhood Regained - Stories of Hope for Asian Child Workers, with 9 stories suitable for Grades 4 to 6. A teachers' guide is available to accompany this student edition. These eye-opening but hopeful stories bring to life some of the situations faced by millions of children working long hours in factories, mines, and quarries, and on city streets and commercial farms in Asia. This book also includes comprehension questions for each story, brief factual information on various work sectors, student activities, a glossary, and information on charitable organizations that are working to help these children. Teachers and teacher-librarians: These captivating fictional stories, organized and edited by a former middle-grade teacher and teacher-librarian, Jodie Renner, are told through the voices of Asian child workers in various situations. They are the perfect medium to engage your students and help them gain awareness of the situations of many of their peers across the globe. These stories will make a valuable additional resource for any social studies program, especially for students aged 9 to 12. Also look for the Childhood Regained - Canadian Teachers' Guide, created to accompany the student editions, with a large variety of related student activities and many more additional resources. Contributors: Della Barrett, Sanjay Deshmukh, Patricia Anne Elford, Sarah Hausman, Barbara A. Hawley, Rayne Kaa Hedberg, Steve Hooley, Eileen Hopkins, Jodie Renner, Caroline Sciriha.

About the Author

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JODIE RENNER, a former middle-school teacher and teacher-librarian with a master's degree, is a sought-after fiction editor and award-winning author of three craft-of-writing guides, Captivate Your Readers, Fire up Your Fiction, and Writing a Killer Thriller. She has also published two handy, clickable e-resources for writers, editors, journalists, teachers, and students: Quick Clicks: Spelling List and Quick Clicks: Word Usage. Jodie has organized and edited two anthologies for charity, Childhood Regained and Voices from the Valleys - Stories & Poems about Life in BC's Interior. Ms. Renner was a classroom teacher for 24 years (B.C. and Ontario) and a teacher-librarian for two years (Ontario). She mostly taught Grades 5 and 6 English and Social Studies and Grades 4 to 8 French. She now lives in Penticton, BC, where she continues to edit novels for others and create and publish her own books.