Literature for life

literature for life

Carol Wolff

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The Curriculum and Literature

Choose an appropriate poem, story, or book. Pre-teach some vocabulary for discussing literature. Set the stage: connect magic to reality. Literature is the love of creativity. You can never separate the two.

ake into account your students’ ages, interests, levels and cultural backgrounds.

Prior Knowledge

Promotes learning Motivates

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Model your process of thinking about literatureWhile reading the first chapter, do some thinking out loud about the story: “I wonder why the story began that way. I wonder what this character is going to do next.”By modeling this process in simple language with vocabulary from the book, you can instill confidence in your students to think deeper and have more in-depth discussions about what they read.

Provide discussion questions

Graphic Organisers Active reading Close reading Response Journal

Play an audio recording of the textYou can often find famous books or poetry recorded in the voice of the author, or that of a famous actor.

Give students a repertoire of words for discussing things like genre, symbolism, theme, and setting. Once they feel confident about the use of these terms, they can discuss stories in a more meaningful way.

llow students to express their own ideas. Don’t just stick to routine question-and-answer activities to get your students to show understanding of the literary piece. Mix it up with activities that spark their creativity. They can share their thoughts on the story or poem by drawing a picture or acting out a scene, for instance.

LET THEM DO IT ON THEIR OWN

MANY different WAYS

Alone - Groups - Pairs Hyperdoc Task Cards Stations / Choice boards Choice of literature

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Creative Ideas

Cartoons Creative Thinking Keys Out of Context Choice Creative Post Readings Fairytales

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Teaching with literature you can make it the most memorable learning experiences for your students, and instill in them a lifelong love of reading and language.

We all love stories

Thank you

Formulate questions that help students get to a deeper understanding of the plot, the characters, the theme and the language employed in the story. The questions should require them to dig deep with examples from the text. While these questions will be completed or discussed at the end of each chapter/section, feel free to provide them to students ahead of time and go over them together. This will help learners understand what to look for and notice as they read a foreign piece of literature.

What is literature?

From Shakespeare to song lyrics...Fairy talesShort storiesPoemsNovelsPlaysComics

Literary texts should be studied in their original forms (or in simplified or abridged versions **). Texts can be supplemented by audio-texts, music CDs, film clips, podcasts, all of which enhance even further the richness of the sensory input that students receive.

Why literature?

Literature is an effective way to improve students’ reading, writing, listening, speaking, and critical thinking skills. It also provides an opportunity to learn about the relationship between language and culture.

Literary texts provide opportunities for multi-sensorial classroom experiences and can appeal to learners with different learning styles.

How is literature used?

Classroom work with literary works may involve pre-reading tasks, interactive work on the text and follow up activities.

Introduce the topic or theme of the text, pre-teach essential vocabulary items and use prediction tasks to arouse the interest and curiosity of students.

• Teach them to notice and imagine
• To appreciate the ways language is used to achieve particular effects.
• Provide frameworks for creative response.
• To step into the shoes of the writer/character or invite them to modify, extend or add to a text.

When is literature taught?

From Birth

According to the curriculum from the first day of English studies

These helicopter "TEACHING" styles are impeding our children. So many teachers today feel like "their kids" can’t be successful without them helping at everyone turn and hovering over them.

We should focus more on helping students build the habits, skills, mindset, and well-being they need to succeed.

The road to "helplessness" is paved with good intentions.