Childrens Literature and Reading Activities
Childrens Literature and Reading Activities
IMPLICATIONS IN
TEACHING
LITERATURE
o Children's Literature
◈ According to Otten (2003), it is the product of the
figment of imagination in the writer's mind borne out of
how one interacts with children and how the writer
makes a construct of childhood.
◈ According to Laffrado (1995) (Introduction to
Children's..., 2012), children's literature comprises a
wide variety of writing for readers whose ages range
from very young kids (like toddlers) to adolescents
(teenagers) approaching maturity and adulthood.
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o The main genres include the following:
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PURPOSE OF LITERATURE:
◈ To entice, motivate, and instruct, it opens opportunities for
learners to see new horizons.
◈ Norton and Norton (2010), literature offers limitless benefits for
young people. For one, literature provides learners the chance to
respond appropriately to literature and to cultivate their own
thoughts. Second, literature makes it possible for students to
develop appreciation of their own culture and others. Third,
literature develops in students emotional strength, stability, and
steadfastness as well as resourcefulness and ingenuity. Fourth,
literature promotes social maturity and helps develop social
development. Finally, literature and its books promote and
preserve a people's cultural and literary heritage. 8
Pedagogy
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These general strategies include the following:
◈ Scaffold Instruction - Students are given a lot of structures at the beginning, and
these structures are removed little by little until the students are capable of doing it
themselves.
◈ Modeling - While reading or discussing a literary work, the teacher thinks out loud
his thoughts related to the text.
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o Pre-Reading:
To provide guidance for the learners to be efficient and
ready in exploring new texts.
o During (While Reading):
Readers engage in a text as they closely read by actively
thinking what they are reading.
o Post Reading
Helping readers summarize their learning, check for
understanding and organize their ideas or thoughts.
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o Pre-Reading:
• Preview the reading material
• Make connections to information you already have or
know
• Make a prediction of what will be covered in the
reading
• Ask questions—what do you want to know about
this?
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o During:
• Check your knowledge
• What connections have you made?
• Do you have additional predictions?
• More questions?
• Make inferences
• Summarize what you’ve read
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o Post-Reading:
• Evaluate
• Make further connections
• Predict what might happen now
• Are your questions answered? What else?
• Make inferences
• Summarize and recall the main points
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