University of Central Florida STARS Honors Undergraduate Theses UCF Theses and Dissertations 2018 Analyzing Children's Literature Awards, Literary Criteria, and District Demographics to Create a Diverse and Inclusive Elementary School Classroom Library Casey L. Lavallee University of Central Florida Part of the Elementary Education Commons Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/honorstheses University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the UCF Theses and Dissertations at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Undergraduate Theses by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Recommended Citation Lavallee, Casey L., "Analyzing Children's Literature Awards, Literary Criteria, and District Demographics to Create a Diverse and Inclusive Elementary School Classroom Library" (2018). Honors Undergraduate Theses. 426. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/honorstheses/426 ANALYZING CHILDREN’S LITERATURE AWARDS, LITERARY CRITERIA, AND DISTRICT DEMOGRAPHICS TO CREATE A DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASSROOM LIBRARY by CASEY LAVALLEE A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Honors in the Major Program in Elementary Education in the College of Community Innovation and Education at the University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida. Fall Term 2018 Thesis Chair: Dr. Lee-Anne Trimble Spalding ABSTRACT Future elementary school teachers are tasked with the responsibility to ensure that the children in their classrooms have access to high quality books every day. This can be accomplished by building classroom libraries with titles that are not only of high literary quality but are also inclusive of the students in the classroom as well as the people these children will encounter outside of the classroom.