Engaging Teachers in the Teaching of Children's Literature

CHAPTER ONE Engaging Teachers in the Teaching of Children's Literature

Essential Question:

What should I know about the English Curriculum and the approaches for teaching literature?

Introduction:

An engaging children's literature or English teacher cannot but be a thoughtful teacher who understands kids and learning, and is an active, intelligent person who loves his or her work. This chapter is all about that kind of literature teacher who finds literature to be both important and necessary. This chapter will explore the salient features of the much-talked-about K to twelve Curriculum Guide in English. It will tackle pedagogical considerations that affect the teaching of literature toward providing teachers with effective research-based and strategies-based approaches to the teaching of children's literature to help build and strengthen literacy skills of school-age learners.

In this chapter, you are expected to:

relate the elements of the K to twelve language program into the approaches and strategies in teaching children's literature;

integrate information from a wealth of research in order to gain the knowledge, skills, and attitude of an effective literature teacher; and generate creative learning outputs exemplifying the teaching strategies to get the most out of the value of teaching literature to children.