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Why Read? Discovering Children’s Literature

Why Read? Discovering Children’s Literature. Ch. 1 Review of Huck’s Children's Literature and an introduction to experiencing language across contexts. Why do we read?. Escapism, Imagination Experience “the lived fusion with the text” {p.5} To learn

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Why Read? Discovering Children’s Literature

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  1. Why Read? Discovering Children’s Literature Ch. 1 Review of Huck’s Children's Literature and an introduction to experiencing language across contexts

  2. Why do we read? • Escapism, Imagination • Experience “the lived fusion with the text” {p.5} • To learn • Reading is a biologically unnatural act yet wonderful act {Maryanne Wolf,Proust and the Squid} • Consider your brain on books

  3. Writers on Reading • “We read to know that we are not alone.” ― William Nicholson • “A word after a word after a word is power.” ― Margaret Atwood • “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies... The man who never reads lives only one.” ―George R.R. Martin • “You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.” ―Adrienne Rich • “We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.” ―Ursula K. Le Guin

  4. How is Children’s Literature defined? • To consider: • Audience • Children’s books are books that have the child’s eye at the center. (P.7) • Context—children’s experience and understanding of the world around them • Content—children read for adventure, enjoyment, vicarious experience, insight into human behavior “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.” ― C.S. Lewis

  5. Educational Values • Literature in Schools • Reading aloud • Hearing books read aloud • Discovering book language • Encountering creative writing elements (prosody, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, alliteration, imagery, etc.) • Developing reader’s voice Literature at Home • Intrinsic values of reading • Reading aloud • Oral language development • “Children who never have a story read to them, who never hear words that rhyme, who never imagine fighting with dragons or marrying a prince, have the odds overwhelmingly against them.”-Wolf

  6. Story Structures & Elements • SETTING • Past, present, future • Character's physical landscape • Can influence tone • PLOT • the plan of action • Narrative arc • THEME • Deeper/larger meanings that lie beneath the stories surface • CHARACTERIZATION • Depth of character • Multi-faceted • STYLE • Voice • Methods of • storytelling • POINT OF VIEW • Who is narrating?

  7. Discussion Questions Discuss the following questions on your groups • What are the literary elements of the children’s books you chose today? • What aspects of this book do you think are appealing and engaging to its readers? • What is the role of an educator in developing children’s literature in and outside of the classroom?

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