This document discusses different strategies for teaching literature to children. It describes how reading helps children learn and develop creative talents like writing, vocabulary, and sensitivity. Some strategies discussed for gaining literary appreciation skills include listening, speaking, oral interpretation, dramatization, reading, writing, and art. The document also covers teaching poetry, fables, legends, choral reading, storytelling, and drama to children.

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5. Reading is taught to
children to enable them
to learn not only in the
content fields but also for
them to enjoy literature.
Teaching Literature To
Children

6. Teaching literature to children contributes
to the development of their creative
talents such as:
• Write for themselves
• Build vocabulary to express themselves
better
• Develop sensitivity so sights, sounds,
words, life problems and people
• Increase their knowledge, outlooks and
interests.

7. LITERARY
APPRECIATION SKILLS
1. Verbalizing emotional response
2. Identify characters
3. Identifying sensory expressions
4.Understanding figurative language
5. Identify tone and mood
6. Enjoying humor
7. Appreciating poetry/prose works

8. Some teaching strategies to gain literary
appreciation skills and develop creativity
in pupils:
1. Listening /
Speaking
2. Oral interpretation
3. Dramatization
4. Reading / Writing
5. Art

9. POETRY FOR CHILDREN
Poetry is an aesthetic expression of thought and
emotion in rhythmical language. It can be compared
to a musical scoring that must be interpreted by
singing.
The qualities of poetry are:
1. Poetry has a musical and rhythmical qualities that
children enjoy.
2. Poetry appeals to the imagination.
3. The emotional content of the poetry must be
sincere, worth expressing, and must be universal in
appeal.

10. FABLES
• A fable is a short tale in which the
chief characters are animals and
sometimes inanimate objects that
act and talk like human beings.
• A fable must always point a moral.
• Often the theme or moral appears
at the end of the story.

11. LEGENDS
•A legend is a narrative that is partly true and
partly imaginary about a particular person,
event, place or natural feature.
•It is a form of story and wonders handed down
from generation to generation though they are
not authenticated by accepted proof.

12. Legends have values in children's literature:
1. It deals with historical backgrounds. They awaken
the national consciousness of children.
2. It develops vivid and fantastic imagination.
3. It help acquaint with children with the cultural
heritage of the country
4. It also gives pleasure and enjoyment to children.

13. Long time ago, there was a couple in Barangay Masagana (Pampanga today)
who wanted a daughter. Their wish was granted and the wife gave birth to a baby
girl. They called her Maria. Maria was very beautiful but very shy that she wouldn't
go out from their house.
Weeks later, Spaniards came to their town. The Spaniards were very cruel that
they get everything they wanted. They rob houses and kill everyone who gets in
their way and who refuses to give what they wanted.
The couple was very frightened to lose their daughter so, they hid Maria in the
bushes so the Spaniards couldn't find her.
After the Spaniards left their town, the couple tried to look for Maria but they
couldn't find her even in the bushes where they hid her, instead they found a little
plant that is very sensitive that when you touch it, it would immediately close.
So they thought it was their daughter, Maria. They called the plant "Makahiya"
that means "touch me not," like their daughter who was very shy.

14. CHORAL READING
Suggestions for reading:
1. Poems which are universal in tone
2. Poems which vary in mood, content and type
3. Poems that are lyrical and narrative
4. Poems that are rich in auditory image
5. Poems with marked rhythm
6. Poems that can be used with three voice

15. 1. High voice
- fun, happiness or brightness
2. Low voice
- mystery, terror, solemnity
3. Medium voice
- narrative, or introducing the characters and for
giving explanation

16. STORY
TELLING
Steps in story-telling:
1. Selection of good story tell
2. Preparation of the story
3. Practice telling the story aloud by yourself
4. Announce the story informally
5. Show the pictures of certain characters in the story
6. At the end of the story, do not give the question:
"do you like the story?"

17. DRAMA
Research reinforces the notions of a positive relationship between
action-centered experiences with drama and learning to read.
Dramatization of Literature has many values:
1. To encourage the interest in and motivation for reading.
2. To expand vocabulary.
3. To encourage the development of critical reading skills and
comprehension.
4. To encourage guided, extended reading.
5. To encourage lifetime readers.

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