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VALUE OF CHILDREN LITERATURE - Coggle Diagram
VALUE OF CHILDREN LITERATURE
Provides opportunity to respond to literature and develop opinions about the topic.
Quality literature allows students to have opinions and trigger their cognitive skills.
One reader may have a different perspective from the other.
Students are able to evaluate, analyze, summarize and hypothesize about the literature.
Provides an avenue for students to learn about culture.
Learning culture through the appropriate selection of literature to the children.
Example: A story "Eric" from Tales from Outer Suburbia (tan, 2009) is a touching story about a family who takes in a foreign exchange student and must learn about their guest and accept the differences between their cultures. It has a positive message about encouraging acceptance of the cultural differences between people.
Encourages activity.
Children literature are imaginative that encourage students to learn about music and art through the design and interactivity.
Develop emotional intelligence.
Example: The Big Box (Morrison, 1999) is about children who are not free by being put into a box and deeper problems exist where it make students relate with their own feelings.
Through varieties of moral values embedded in children literature, children can learn to make moral decisions and contemplate the reasons for their actions.
Timeless tradition.
Books are the major means to transmit literary heritage through generations.
Children can build cognitive and language skills through rhymes and older grades children can learn to appreciate classic plays and messages of William Shakespeare in picture books.
Fosters personality and social development.
Children are very impressionable and children literature help them to become caring, intelligent and friendly.
Students learn to take take into account regarding feelings and others' viewpoints.
Encouragement of students to accept other people and their differences.