Children's Literature

1. Personal Value of Literature
for Children

2. • Literature for children leads to personal
fulfillment and academic gains.
Separating the values into personal and
academic is an intellectual distinction.

3. Personal Value of Literature for Children
• Enjoyment
• Imagination and
Inspiration
• Knowledge and
Insights
• Understanding
and Emphathy
• Heritage and
Cultural Identity
• Moral
Reasoning
• Literary and
Artistic
Preferences

4. Enjoyment
The most important personal gain that good
books offer to children is the most
obivious one - ENJOYMENT.

5. Imagination and Inspiration
Through the vicarious experience of
entering a world different from the present
one, children develop their imaginations
and stories about people, both real and
imaginary, can inspire children to
overcome obstacles, accept different
perspectives and formulate personal goals.

6. Knowledge and Insights
Good books offer both information and wisdom.
Informational books provide factual knowledge (realistic
fiction, fantacy and poetry) offer insights into life.
Historical fiction and biography offers both information
and wisdom.

7. Understanding and Emphathy
Literature helps young people gain
an appreciation of the universality
of human needs across history.
Walking in someone else's shoes
often helps children develop a
sense of social justice and a
greater capacity to empathize with
others.

8. Heritage and Cultural Identity
Stories are the repositories of culture.
Knowing the tales, characters,
expressions, and adages that are part
of our cultural heritage is part of being
culturally literate.
Appreciation for what history is and for
the people, both ordinary and
extraordinary, who made history.

9. Moral Reasoning
Moral reasoning is an integral part of character
education, a strans in the social studies
curricula of many elementary schools today,

10. Literary and Artistic Preferences
Children who read regularly from a wide variety of
of children's books soon develop their own
personal preferences for type of books and
select favorite authors and illustrations.
This serves as "power reading motivators"

11. The more children know about their world the
more they discover about themselves - who
they are, what they value, and what they stand
for.

12. Academic Value of Literature
for Children

13. Academic Value of Literature for Children
Reading
Writing
Content-Area Subjects
Art Appreciation

14. Regular involvement
with excellent and
appropriate literature
can foster language
development in young
children and can help
them learn to read
and value reading.

15. National Reading Panel (1997)
Components of instruction considered to be
essential to the teaching of reading:
• Phonemic Awareness
• Phonics
• Reading Comprehension
» Fluency
» Vocabulary Instruction