Children’s literature can be defined as good quality trade books for children from birth to adolescence‚ covering topics of relevance and interests to children of those ages‚ through prose and poetry‚ fiction and non-fiction. Children can connect with the characters‚ events‚ places‚ and problems in literature on a personal level. Such affective responses to literature provide opportunities for students to become personally involved in reading and learning. For children to be successful they should
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Adventure is an important part of children ’s psyche. Children often dream of strange fortunes‚ great feats‚ exciting events‚ long trips‚ and everything they can be drawn to from the monotony of everyday life. Heroes of adventure stories are mostly sailors‚ pirates‚ cowboys and Indians‚ convicts‚ researchers‚ adventurers and solitaires of all types. The concept of adventure story is quite simple: brave‚ strong and resourceful hero must make a difficult task‚ and overcome a lot of danger‚ but in
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I WANT TO LOVE CHILDREN EVEN MORE 02/10/2011 Lecture 4 Are children better off now than they were 50 years ago? Comparing childhood today with childhood 50 years ago‚ there are many dramatic changes. There are new forms of media such as television and the internet. Family structures and emphasis on values today are nothing like they were 50 years ago. It was odd if a family did not sit at the dinner table together. Today there is so much going on it is odd to sit at the dinner table together
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Children Literature in a Pluralistic Society Mariela Cuevas ENG/290 June 1‚ 2012 Dr. Denese Wolff How theoretical models and critical approaches apply to children’s literature. The importance of understanding the complexity of the way children’s learn is crucial. Each age faces a different challenge and opens a door to a new learning step. Children are like sponges and the responsibility
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Study of Literature in Elementary School Literature is yields of writing and spoken substance. Generally‚ literature tells anything from creative writing to be literally work like as poetry‚ drama‚ fiction and nonfiction which have an aim to work of the creativity of the imaginations (Lombardi‚ n.d). Too few of children in elementary school who learnig about literature because the schools are more focusing them on the main lesson such as mathematics‚ science of language‚ social‚ biology and
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There are plenty of genres in Children’s literature‚ maybe even more than any other kinds of literature. Some children books are published on a worldwide scale‚ so one does not simply know all of these genres. According to Lukens “A genre is something that describes a group of similar characteristics”. (Lukens‚ 2007‚ p.13)The three genres that I will be discussing are Folklore‚ fantasy‚ and traditional literature. Folklore or folktales are stories‚ poems‚ fairy tales‚ oral history and legends
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Bibliographic Annotations List 1: Sendak‚ Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. New York: Scholastic Inc.‚ 1983. This book is about a boy named Max who goes on an adventure to where the wild things live. Max gets sent to his room for being wild in the house and causing trouble. Then Max’s room slowly turns into a forest and Max goes on his adventure. Max gets there and scares all the wild things with a magic trick. They name Max the wildest thing of all and he becomes king of the wild things. Eventually
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1. F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby) When World War 1 neared its end‚ Fitzgerald became a second lieutenant‚ and was stationed at Camp Sheridan‚ in Montgomery‚ Alabama. While there he fell in love with a seventeen year old named Zelda Sayre and she agreed to marry Fitzgerald but she postponed their wedding until he proved that he could make money. He was able to convince Zelda in marrying him after earning some fame and money from his novel “This Slide of Paradise” in 1920. When his most famous
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Running Head: Sharing Literature Sharing Literature with Young Children Vanessa Rayburn September 4‚ 2011 Sharing Literature Having the opportunity to share wonderful books with children is the single-most important reason I began my career in early childhood. Among my fondest childhood memories is being read to by my father. He instilled in me a love for books of all kinds‚ especially picture books‚ which I found to be magical. Reading was relaxing and enjoyable‚ as well as exciting
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"Literature adds to reality‚ it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect‚ it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become." - C.S Lewis‚ a British scholar and novelist. This wise saying is perhaps the most appropriate description of the importance of literature in our lives and especially to children. Literature reminds us of stories‚ epics‚ sacred scriptures and classical works of the ancient and
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