Purposes 4 Reading Literary Genres

8/6/2019 Purposes 4 Reading Literary Genres

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THE DIFFERENT GENRESOF CHILDRENS

LITERATURE


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Think about the last 5 10 things

you read


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You may have thought about

Novels

Newspapers

Aspirin bottle Comic books

Directions

Recipes

Internet pages


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There are three main

purposes for reading

Reading to be informed

Reading for literary experience

Reading to perform task


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What are the differences?

Reading to be informed is reading togain information.

Reading for literary experience isreading for enjoyment.

Reading to perform a task is reading toaccomplish a specific job.


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What is childrens

literature

In general, the term comprises boththose books which are selected and

read by children, as well as those

deemed as 'appropriate for children'by authorities.

www.wikipedia.com


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DidYou know?

There are some who would have it that

childrens literature is written specially for

kids.

Though in some cases books meant for

adults have become kids books Such as Mark twains Huckleberry Finn or The

Prince and the Pauper

The reverse isnt unheard of eitherwww.ferrum.edu


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There are 2 main types of

literature:

FICTION

NON FICTION


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Fiction Fiction is produced by the

imagination and is not necessarilybased on fact.


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NonfictionNonfiction is text dealing with

actual, real-life subjects.


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GENRES OF CHILDRENSLITERATURE

A genre is a category of

literature marked by a

distinctive style.


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Elements of A good

Picture Book32 pages is standard

Illustrations dominate text Illustrations integrate with the

narrative to bring story to a satisfying

conclusion.

Word count is generally less than 500

words. Picturingbooks.imaginarylands.org


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Although, picture bookscan have over 2000 words

or have none at all, as isthe case with wordlesspicture books.

Overall design serves tobuild a relationshipbetween the text and theillustrations, this includesthe front matter, backmatter, and the book

jacket

Picturingbooks.imaginarylands.org


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GraphicAlphabet by

David

Pelletier is anexample of a

picture book.

www.bsu.edu

Picture books arealso referred to as

stories without

words, picture

books, nursery

rhymes, stories in

rhyme, alphabet

books, counting

books (Glaister et.

Al)


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Examples for traditional Lit

Myths Legends

Folk tales

Fables

www.bsu.edu


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MYTHS

a myth is a sacred

narrative explaining howthe world and

humankind came to be

in their present form.

Many scholars in otherfields use the term

"myth" in somewhat

different ways. In a verybroad sense, the word

can refer to any

traditional story.


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LEGEND Latin, legenda, "thingsto be read" is a narrative of human

actions that areperceived both by

teller and listeners totake place withinhuman history

The Brothers Grimm

defined legend asfolktale historicallygrounded.


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FOLK TALES

n. A story or legend forming part of

an oral tradition.

Folktale

n : a tale circulated by word ofmouth among the common folk


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Folktales were told all over

the world.Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm

were born in the late 1700s

in Germany. When theygrew up, they traveled a lot.

Wherever they traveled,

they listened to people tell

stories. They publishedmany of these stories.

Today they are very

famous and are known as

the Brothers Grimm.


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They published these stories

Cinderella

Sleeping Beauty

SnowWhite Little Red Riding Hood

Rapunzel

Rumpelstiltskin Hansel and Gretel

The Frog King


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Remember, folktales were

told all over the world.

Many of the Grimm tales

we know are also found

in other parts of the

world. The characters

and setting might

be different, but the plot

Is basically the same.


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REMEMBER!

Tales of talking animals

Tales that tell why?

Tales of magic (fairy tales)

Tales of exaggeration (legends, tall

tales)Note:

Fairy tales are tales of magic. They are folk tales.


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EXAMPLE:Wanda Gag's The Six

Swans

ONE day a king solved aproblem by making adeal with an old woman.

As a result, he had tomarry the womansdaughter who was verywicked indeed.


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Because the king had bad vibesabout his new wife, he worried

that his 6 sons and a daughterfrom a previous marriage mightnot be safe. He didnt even wanthis new wife to know they existed.So he hid them in a castle deep inthe woods. His new wife was smartthough. She paid the kingsservants to tell her where he wenteveryday.


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She came up with a plan. Shesewed some white shirts and then

sewed a spell in each one. Thenshe set off for the castle. The boysthought their father was coming sothey ran outside. She threw a shirtover each one of them andwatched as they turned intoswans.


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Its a good thing the daughter

didnt run outside. Shes theonly one who didnt turn into aswan. She ran into the forestto find her brothers.


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Eventually she found them and

discovered that if she wanted tobreak the spell, she had to sew 6shirts made out of star flowers andcouldnt laugh or speak for 6 years.

She was determined to do this.Itwas a little hard though when a

king decided to marry her. For 6years of marriage she never

laughed or talked. She had 3 kids,but her mother-in-law took themaway from her and hid them. Shehad a very difficult life.


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The king finally decided that she

must be killing her babies anddecided she should die. On thefinal day of the 6 years, she wasabout to be burned to death. Just

as someone was lighting the fire,she looked up and saw 6 swans.


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She quickly threw the six shirts

over them. The magic spell wasoff! There was only one problem the youngest brother still had 1swan wing.


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The king found out his mother hadlied. I dont know what happenedto his mother, but everyone elselived happily ever after.


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Rafe Martin

Rafe Martin readThe Six Swans.

When he finished,he had a lot ofquestions that hewanted answered.

He wondered whathappened to the boywho still had onewing.


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Rafe Martin What happens to

that boy?

What kind of

young man will hebecome?

How will he findhis place on this

earth and behappy, when allwho see him thinkhim a cripple orworse, a freak?


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BIRDWING

So Rafe Martinwrote BIRDWING.This story begins 6years later and ismostly about the

youngest boy,Prince Ardwin.


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BIRDWING

While hes gone,he experiencesviolence, danger,

struggles andlove. He even seeshis stepmother,

the one whoturned him into aswan to beginwith!


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FABLES 1 a short tale that teaches a lesson. The

characters in fables are often animals who

speak and act like people. "The Fox and the Grapes" is a well-known fable

by Aesop.

2 a false story; lie. He told us a fable about his father being a jet

pilot.


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CHARACTERS

Characters dontusually have

names like wedo. They go bythe type of

animal. They talk and act

like people.


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The characters dont change

much. Foxes are always

clever.

Mice are alwayssmall and weak.

But the maincharacter alwayslearns a lesson.


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WHAT IS THE MORAL OF A

FABLE?

MORAL:

the lesson about right and

wrong learned from a story orevent.


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Historical Fiction Stories with

fictional

characters andevents in a

historical

setting.


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HISTORICAL FICTION

setting is the mostimportant literaryelement.

Historical Fiction books,whether they are picturestory books, transitionalbooks, or novels, may have

characters who are eitherimaginary or who actuallylived during the timeperiod.


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Modern Fantasy Modern Fantasy is a broad

genre with many types of

books included in its

spectrum.

The genre is often

characterized by its use of

time travel, or imaginarybeings from other planets,

or animals that talk.


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Examples of Modern

Fantasy are Harry Potter by J.K.

Rowling

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Wrinkle in Time by

Madeleine L'Engle

A. A. Milne's Winnie The

Pooh

Alice inWonderland


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CONTEMPORARY

REALISTIC FICTION Stories involve

bad and goodsituations of today

Characterovercomesobstacles thatmakes them growas a person


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Informational Texts The function of

these texts is to

conveyinformation.


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Informational Texts Books consist ofaccurate and clear

facts statingsomething informative

(Glaister, et. al)

These books avoidstereotypes and

generalizations

(Glaister, et. al)


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Informational Texts These books are often called

photo documentaries,

narrative texts, how-tobooks, question and answer

books, activity books, and

life-cycle books (Glaister,

et. al)

Eyewitness book series are

popular

Bi h d


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Biography and

Autobiography Biographies are

narratives of apersons life.

Autobiographiesare life stories

written by theactual person.


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Sowhat are you

going to read

today?


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THANKS TO:

www.bsu.edu.www.bsu.edu.

"Picturing books." imaginarylands.org.

imaginarylands.org. "Children's Literature."

www.wikipedia.com.

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