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Children Just Like Me By Barnabas and Anabel Kindersley

The book //'Children Just Like Me'// by Barnabas and Anabel Kindersley is a book that contains the profiles or children from every continent of the world, including Africa, Australia, Asia, North and South America and Europe. Each child's profile includes information about their family, what they like to do, where they live, special traditions and celebrations. It very clearly demonstrates that although every country and child is unique around the world, they also share a love for many of the same things. This highlights the positive way that cultural diversity can be addressed.
 * Description of Resource:**

The aim of the unit is to build respect and appreciation for the culturally diverse nature of Australian society by addressing the HSIE outcome (Board of Studies, 2006)**. **This book serves as a good introduction to the topic of multiculturalism and assists in building students knowledge about the way that children live in different countries around the world and how that is both similar and different to themselves. This is a good starting point for students as it provides them with a basic knowledge of the topic area before they delve into a term that will look more closely at specific cultures within their own community and how they can celebrate that diversity as a whole school.
 * Relevance to the unit outcome:**
 * CUS2.4: Describes different viewpoints, ways of living, languages and belief systems in a variety of communities **

This resource aims to help build students feild knowledge of Multiculturalism, by providing them with a basic overview of cultural differences. Building feild knowledge about a topic is an essential step for every topic taught in the classroom. This not only provides students with the essentials needed to access the topic successfully, it also allows the teacher to gauge what their students prior knowledge is on the area and therefore know where to aim their teaching (Carpentera, 1992 ). This resource also meets outcome **RS2.5 Reads independently a wide range of texts on increasingly challenging topics and justifies own interpretation of ideas, information and event** (Board of Studies, 2007) as it provides students with the opportunity to engage and interpret a factual text type.
 * Aspect of Literacy to be explored:**


 * Reference List:**
 * Board Of Studies. (2006). //K-6 HSIE syllabus.// Sydney: Board of Studies NSW.
 * Board of Studies. (2007). //K-6 English Syllabus.// Sydney: Board of Studies NSW.
 * Kindersley, B. a. (1995). //Children Just Like Me.// London: Dorling Kindersley.
 * Thomas P. Carpentera, E. F. (1992). Cognitively guided instruction: Building on the knowledge of students and teachers. //International Journal of Educational Research, Volume 17, Issue 5//, 457-470.