Teaching simple literature for students

 Why Use Children's Literature?

Young learners in particular need a very active classroom and variety throughout the lesson. Using children's literature can be effectively and enjoyable way to teach language. Students who are enthralled by a story forget their worries and anxieties about the new language. The following approach is the one that works very well:

Sing : students sing, recite or read a passage from the story in items.

Listen: students listen to the story from beginning to end

Dance: students get out of their chair s for physical activity. Often, this can be acting out the actions from the story, but there are unlimited possibilities.

Draw: students sit back and illustrate new vocabulary.

Types of Activities

Listen to the story on tape/ as read by the teacher.

Listen to the story and read along.

Listen to the story and put illustration depicting parts of the story in order.

Read the book silently.

Read the book to a partner then switch.

Write the favourite words to enrich the vocabulary.

Play Pictionary. Divide students into team. one member of the team draws a picture on the board while team members try to guess what it is within a limited time period.

Speed reading games. call out a word from the text, then students race to find it.

Answer (or practice asking) simple who, what, when and why questions about the story.

A note about memorization.A lot of students really do enjoy memorizing the books. Allow them to recite what they've memorized in activities.Many students love to show off their English and feel very proud of being able to produce a minute or so of non-stop English.

"Education is not the learning of facts,
 but training of the mind to think"

"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge
 a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid"

Albert Einstein

"...children do not learn from demonstration 

by passively absorbing information. To learn, children must become engaged with the demonstration"

Barrentine

 

"Education is not preparation for life... 

education is life itself"

John Dewey

  

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