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Children’s Lit

From the Child’s Perspective



Notes: The Child Responds to Literature:

• Literature entices, motivates, and instructs.

• Most authors discuss in their biographies theimportance of having someone to read to

them.

• Literature helps develop emotionalintelligence including: self-awareness,

managing emotions, handling anxiety inappropriate ways, motivating oneself andsensitivity toward others.



• According to Walter Loban’s research, early orallanguage development in children has lifelong impact.The high group reached a level of oral proficiency inthe first grade that the low group did not attain until

sixth grade and a level of written proficiency untilfourth grade.

• The high group excelled in control of ideas expressed,showing unity and planning in both their speech andwriting.

• Conclusion: teachers, librarians, and parents, mustgive greater attention to developing children’s orallanguage.



Observing:

• Colorful picture books are excellent vehicles

for developing observational skills in both

younger and older children.• Keith Baker’s Hide and Snake encourages viewers to search through illustrations to

find the snake.



Comparing:

• Picture books and other literary selections

provide opportunities for comparing.• Using Ruth Krauss’s The Growing Story young children can compare how a puppy grows

through the seasons.



Classifying:

• Concept books provide excellent stimuli for

classifying. Children must be able to classify

objects or ideas before seeing or

understanding the relationships among them.

• Eric Carle allows children to match blocks of

color with the color in the illustration in his

My Very First Book of Colors.



Hypothesizing:

• Several illustrated books encourage younger

children to hypothesize about what they will

find when they turn the page.• Visual hints and textual clues encourage children to hypothesize in Mia Posada’s Guess What

is Growing Inside this Egg?



Organizing:

• Books that allow children to follow changes in

seasons increase their understanding about

sequences in time.

• In Sky Tree: Seeing Science Through Art,

Thomas Locker follows the seasonal cycle of a

tree beginning in summer and progressing

through seasons until the tree againexperiences summer.



Summarizing:

• Rhoda Blumberg’s The Incredible Journey of

Lewis and Clarke.



Arguing and Responding:

• Young children need many opportunities to

apply the skills, concepts, and information in

books.

• Using Anita Lobel’s One Lighthouse, One Moon

readers can respond to colors, days of the

week, months, numbers from 1-10.



Criticizing:

• Neither adults nor children should be required

to encourage everything they hear or read

without criticism.

• Wild Animals in Captivity by Rob Laidlaw

includes questions and checklists to help

readers evaluate the treatment of animals in

zoos.



Personality Development:

• Infancy: (Birth-1 ½ years)—Trust versus Mistrust :

Children learn to have confidence in others.

During this time they develop feelings of security

or become fearful and unsure of theirenvironment and the people around them.

• Toddler Years (1 ½ years to 3)— Autonomy Versus

Shame and Doubt : Children learn to makedecisions and accept independence or become

inhibited and lack self esteem.



• Preschool Years (3-6 years)—Initiative Versus

Guilt :

Children learn to plan and carry out their own

activities and attempt to master new challenges.

• Elementary School Years—Industry Versus

Inferiority:

Children seek recognition by learning the skills of aculture that leads to success and positive self

concept.



• Adolescence—Identity Versus Role Confusion:

Children try to identify who they are and how

they fit

• Young Adult —Intimacy Versus Isolation:

Young People have established their identities

and are capable of intimacy.



Books that teach about hard subjects:

• In Can’t You Sleep, Little Bear? A young bear

experiences fear.

• Ruby the Copycat.

• When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to

Understanding Death.

• Let’s Talk About it: Divorce



Children’s books help with Social

Development:

• Three factors in the socialization of children—

• First, reward or punishment.

•

Observations• Identification requires emotional ties with

models.

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