The Role of Children'sLiterature

The Role of Children'sLiterature






The Role of Children’s Literature
Tina Flynn-Thompson
ENG 290
Monday July 7, 2014
Carol Campbell
The Role of Children’s Literature

All children have the potential to learn by a variety of methods. Children's literature can and does include age-appropriate and suitable content that helps learning development, understanding the timeline of children's literature is critical, by identifying the styles of stories and how they were delivered and by whom, we gain a greater knowledge of the significance. The Renaissance period, gave us the only literature in use with the intentions of instructing children. Intended to help children in the development of moral and religious beliefs. Only for the amusement and entertainment for children was adult literature (Russell, 2009). Classic Latin and Greek tales, in addition to The Bible, were the few types of literature shared for such reasons. Adults in these time periods often considered children to be small adults capable of assuming adult responsibilities, roles, and comprehension (Russell, 2009). Therefore, children often read, and listened to adult literature. Following the Renaissance, the literacy expansion broadened the scope or range of children's literature (Russell, 2009). Growing in young readers' popularity, national history became an interesting and suitable subject for children's literature (Russell, 2009). Present-day, the essence of children's literature includes language and story pleasures children have enjoyed for thousands of years (Russell, 2009). Storytelling is the foundation and root system on which all literature rests on. Stories of entertainment, comfort, instruction, life lessons, religious and cultural heritage are the very basis of the beginning of education of our children. This foundation is a gradual stepping stone for all future learning.

Children's literature offers young readers new perspectives on the world they live in. Authors provide different views of...

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