In today’s lecture, we focused on two questions:
What makes a quality literary text?
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What are appropriate texts to use with primary students at various stages?
A quality literary text could be defined as a text that assist reader in demonstrating how the language can be used creatively and critically as well as understanding the world and people beyond our own world. During the process of reading a quality literary text, children should be able to ‘explore and question, interpret meanings, evaluate for themselves and think or reflect personally’(Gibson&Ewing, 2011, pp.71-72). That means, a quality literary text should encourage student’s critical thinking and ability to examine the context beyond the creative language in the text. Hence, a quality literary text is critical literacy at the same time and one requirement of critical literacy is ‘reading with a growing discernment of the personal, social, cultural, and aesthetic values of texts’ (Winch.,Johnson.,March,Ljungdahl.&Holliday, 2010, p.534).
Critical literacy can also apply to visual texts, such as the illustrations of picture books, ad moving image, such as film (Winch.,Johnson.,March,Ljungdahl.& Holliday, 2010, p.534). With visual literacy, what students required is more than the ability to understand the images, as a particular form of Creative arts, but also the ability to critically analyse the power of images and the influence to the texts. As an assessment of students' learning, teacher should assess on students understanding of quality literary texts by examining meaningful visual texts. This could be used in literacy reading and writing, particularly in picture books study, as well as film making in primary schools.
However, considered on the various stages of primary students, it is teacher’s responsibility to select appropriate quality literary texts and maximize their values to students' learning.
References:
Gibson, R.&Ewing, R. (2011) Transforming the Curriculum through the Arts. South Yarra: Palgrave MacMillan.
Winch, G., Johnston, R., March, P., Ljungdahl, L., & Holliday, M. (2010). Literacy : reading,writing and children's literature(4th ed.). South Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
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