Traditional literature includes folktales, legends, myths, epics, and fables that are passed down orally between generations. These stories often teach moral lessons and explore themes of good versus evil. Folktales in particular represent common people and events and aim to teach a lesson, while legends are exaggerated accounts based on real people and events. Myths typically explain the origins of the world and civilization and involve conflicts between humans and gods. Children's poetry also falls under traditional literature, using simple expressions, vocabulary, and direct storytelling appropriate for younger audiences.

1. TRADITIONAL
LITERATURE

2. TRADITIONAL LITERATURE
oldest type of literature our
youth will encounter
originated as part of an
oral tradition
Provides moral models for
children as struggle
applied to good and evil

3. ORIGIN
Came from any
country; any culture
From generation to
generation
Similarities can be
found in tales from one
country to another

4. THEMES
Good vs. Evil
Weak vs. Strong
Ugly vs. Beautiful
Rich vs. Poo

5. TYPES OF TRADITIONAL LITERATURE
Folktales
Legend
Myths
Epic
Fables

6. FOLKTALES
 A story told by mouth to
teach lesson
 Pass by generation to
generation
 Common people and
place events
 Represents human
frailty
 Characters represents
human qualities

7. FOLKTALES
 Plot
-Short, simple, Fastmoving,
 Characters
-Completely bad or good
 Themes
-Values of culture express

8. EXAMPLES:
 The man and the coconuts
 The boy who became a stone
 the tale of rabbit and coyote
 How the first head was taken
 Dogedog

10. LEGEND
 Based on real people and events
The stories are exaggerated to depict
heroism,

11. MYTHS
 Deals with human relationships to the God
 Contain action,suspense and conflict
 Tend to explain the beginning of the world
and origin of civilization

12. EXAMPLES

13. EPIC
 Along narrative clustering a one hero
 Gives understanding about culture

14. FABLES
stories are typically short in length and
heavily allegorical or symbolic
Mostly animals talks like humans
Characters are unnamed, impersonal
Represent human nature

15. EXAMPLES

16. CHILDREN’S POETRY
 It is a poem for Childrens
 From birth through age 18?
 include folk poetry

17. WHAT DIFFERENTIATES BETWEEN
CHILDREN AND ADULT POETRY
Simpler expression of ideas.
Simple vocabulary
Attention span
Stories are told more directly with
r/ship among characters shown clearly.

18. WHAT DIFFERENTIATES BETWEEN CHILDREN AND
ADULT POETRY
Children more open to experimenting with
more forms of Poetry than adults.
Children find spontaneous pleasure in
rhymes & jokes, cartoons, comics, etc.
Adults tend to stick to one type of literature.

19. NOTABLE POEMS
 "Baa, baa, black sheep...“
 Little Jack Horner
 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
 Little Boo- Peep
 Yankie Doodle
 Jack And Jill

20. NOTABLE POEMS
 Mary had a Little Lamb
 The Calming Rhyme
 Two Little Bluebirds
 Here is a Bunny
 I’m a Little Tea Pot

21. HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE
Hey, diddle, diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the
moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away
with the spoon.

22. TWINKLE, TWINKLE LITTLE STAR
 Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Twinkle, twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
 When the blazing sun is gone
When he nothing shines upon
Then you show your little light
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are

23. ADVANTAGE OF POETRY
increase reading fluency
 enhances readers’ emotional lives
Poetry increases readers’ empathy
poetry increases verbal intelligence