Literature: Introduction and Importance

Literature Lesson Plans

• Procedures for teaching literature include Preparation, Writing, Making Connections, Read Aloud, Chunking, Character Chart, and Storyboard.
• Making Connections involves Text-to-Self, Text-to-Text, and Text-to-World.

Read Aloud

• Provides a way to help all students access the material and develop their skills as active listeners.
• Procedures: Select a text, Read Aloud, Pause for comments, Reread sections.

Chunking

• Involves breaking down a difficult text into more manageable pieces and having students rewrite these chunks in their own words.

Character Chart

• Involves using graphic organizers to help students organize information about major and minor characters in text.

Storyboard

• A graphic representation of the sequence of the literary piece.
• Helps students to visualize the different events and flow of the story.

Constructing Life Journeys

• Represents important decisions and events that have shaped a person's life.
• Procedures: Brainstorm, draw a map about someone's life, Constructing Life Journeys, Sharing and debrief.

Sealing a Time Capsule

• Students write and predict the ending of the story based on their idea of the first part of the story.
• Tests students' ability in story writing.

Read and Feel

• Students are assigned a small portion of the text to present to their peers.
• Procedures: Preparation, Read Selections, Performances, Reflection.

Master Poem

• Allows students to stimulate their ideas by brainstorming.
• Enables students to create their masterpieces.

Importance of Literature

• Improves command of language.
• Provides information about other parts of the world.
• Teaches about the life, cultures, and experiences of people in other parts of the world.
• Entertains and provides useful occupation in free time.
• Makes a person wiser and more experienced by forcing them to judge, sympathize with, or criticize characters.
• Gives information useful in other subjects like Geography, Science, History, and Social Studies.
• Helps compare own experiences with those of other people.

Importance and Aim of Literature among Students

• Cultural Values
• Building Vocabulary
• Expanding Horizon
• Improve Writing Skills
• Teaching Critical Thinking
• Enhances Writing Skills

Factors Affecting Interests in Literature

• Ability
• Motivation
• To Relate to Student's Thoughts and Feelings
• Literary Merit
• Entertainment
• Choice

Instructional Strategies in Teaching Literature

Carry On

• Provides an effective way for all learners in a classroom to share their ideas about a question, topic, or text.
• Procedures: Provide a Prompt, Students Share Responses, Closing.

Closing Viewing Protocol

• Viewing and reviewing a video clip to focus on what the filmmaker has made.
• Ensures that students become critical viewers of film about the content and what they understand.
• Procedures: Viewing Protocol, Students answer film-dependent questions, Small groups practice focused viewing.

Route-to-Life

• Helps students to better understand key life events of historical or literary figures by focusing attention on many factors that have contributed to the array of choices they have made.
• Procedures: Preparation, students need to have information about the person and the context in which he/she lived.