Teacher’s tips

Level of education: Elementary School - Early Childhood Education

Age: 04 to 07 years old

Children's Literature is extremely vital as it provides the child with a chance to develop personal opinions. Furthermore, it encourages deeper thinking and emotional intelligence and imagination; cultivates the growth and development of personality and social skills. Giving children access to all types of literature is important to their success, as reading is not only valuable for studying and succeeding in school, but for many other reasons as well.

Learner outcomes

Develop text reading and interpretation; Understand the use of the alphabet in the construction of words; Expand vocabulary; Understand the importance of healthy eating; Understanding that poor nutrition can pose risks to their development;

Teachers’ goals

Work on reading and text interpretation skills; Provide, in a playful and creative way, the progress in the reading and writing process of children; Expand the class's repertoire of letters and words; Offer the game as a didactic resource to fix the content worked in the classroom; Expand students' knowledge;

Suggestions of approaches for the teacher

Step 1: Library in the classroom

Separate a place in the corner of the room where it can only be used for reading, cover the floor with a large rug, place lots of pillows, puffs, promoting a very cozy environment. Once or twice a week, take the students to this reading corner, where they can read books, tell stories.

Step 2: Introduce students to string literature and mount a string in the reading corner.

Step 3: Promote a moment for reading the comics.

Step 4: After reading the comics, students can identify the difference in the structure and writing of these stories, so ask them to create comics. For the initial series, only request drawings. Let the children use their imagination.

Step 5: Use the reading corner to prepare a storytelling moment using puppets. Tip: Have students make their own puppets out of popsicle sticks.

More about it

Benefits of fairy tales for children

1. They see good overcome evil.

2. They see that actions have consequences.

3. They see big hurdles overcome by ordinary characters.

4. They enrich the imagination

5. They benefit all ages

6. Promote cultural literacy

7. Promotes critical thinking

8. Stimulates problem solving

9. Expansion of vocabulary

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