Responding to Children's Literature
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Responding to Children’s Literature Reflection
Children's literature is an essential resource in teaching language and literacy to young children. Children’s literature can foster a fond love for reading in young children that follows them throughout their lives. When considering the impact of literature on children, it is important to consider not only the
benefits of learning to read, but also to understand the responses that literature can draw out. Knowing these responses can help parents, caregivers, and educators understand the impact of literature on young children’s lives and learning experience. Children respond to literature in multiple ways. The responses to literature include personal, critical, creative, and social responses. A personal response to literature is a way of expressing personal thoughts, feelings, and reactions to a story or book. This response helps children understand the emotions that a piece of literature evokes. It is important for parents and teachers to encourage and acknowledge these responses to help children learn to relate to and connect with a story and its characters, settings, and themes. This can be done by asking the child or
children questions on what they recognize and relate to in the text. A critical response is one that analyzes and critiques the literature. Teachers and parents should encourage children to think critically about what they are reading and to consider the story’s characters, events, and themes. Teachers and parents can do this by asking questions that help the child or children to consider the author’s purpose or reason for writing the text, the moral and meaning of the story, the major plot points, the readers or audience, and the individual and cultural contexts of the piece of work. A creative response to literature inspires creativity and imagination. Teachers and parents can encourage these responses by asking the child or children to connect with the story in a creative way, like rewriting their own ending, acting out scenes with peers or friends, or drawing or painting a picture of their favorite characters and scenes. Children’s literature can help initiate conversations and stimulate deeper thinking about social issues. A social response helps stimulate discussion and conversation, which not only helps with comprehension, but also improves social and emotional development. Social responses can be supported by encouraging
children to reflect upon and relate to the story, to think about connections between themselves and the characters and their own lives and experiences, and to talk about how they affect their lives and impact their communities. Parents and teachers should always consider the possible reflections and responses to a story, book, or text and help children formulate these responses in the home and in the classroom. Encouraging responses from children on literature is an important step in promoting literacy and fostering language development.
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