Lesson 7: Children’s literature

prepared by Kinsley Ng Sen Fa, Segi College Penang, Program DECE

Reading books to Repeated reading of
children daily – set new and old books –
children expecting their favorite
routines characters / plot

Some ideas for children’s

literature ……

Listen to children’s Deviate from the story

“reading” and encourage creativity
/ imagination
 Rhythmical
Illustrated with Repetitive and
simple, predictable
familiar, easy
to identify
Relatively short, concise
objects When story-lines about
selecting common, everyday life
and environmental
Colorful! story books experience
With few for toddlers
words on
each page Illustrations
Filled with multi- matched to the text
sensorial
experiences
Sturdy, with easy to
turn pages
 How to arouse their
interest? – not every child is
Promotes interested in books, your interest
matters too!
diversity –
ethnic-cultural
backgrounds, special Styles involved
needs, non- rhythm, repetition,
stereotype
sound pattern and
When careful choice of
Characters selecting story words – too many words?
with realistic books Length? Too abstract or
symbolic?
protraction (preschooler)
so that children
can identify with
them easily Educational
values – expanding
children’s knowledge?
Offer new vocabulary? The chronological
Enhance understanding? order should unfold
sequentially
 Include the range of
character types of
people in real setting
No caricatures of
an ethnic physical
features Screen fir stereotypical
characteristics

Promoting diversity and

cultural consciousness

Speech of the
characters should
be realistic Portray group members
with positive virtues
 Choose books with
repetitive and
Listening predictable story-line
skills

Imitative body
Sharing books actions
with two and
Pointing three year
olds

Making noise

Repeating dialogue
 Suspense Fantasy

Non-sense Realistic
Humor or wit dialogue

Listening
pleasure Surprise
Cultural
Qualities of
insights
Word play children’s
book – for memorable
reading experience
Repetition
Aesthetic colorful
appeal

Sensitivity Charm
Character
Hope
development
 Promotion of Development of
creative imagery
Nourishment expression
of imagination
Presentation and
Provision of exploration of various
pleasure styles and forms for the
communication of ideas

Helps give Illustration -

words reality benefits
Awareness of
the functions
Acquisition of metalinguistic of languages
awareness (a sense of what
printed language is all about)