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What is the purpose of teaching children’s literature?

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To provide students with an appreciation of a lifetime of reading enjoyment.

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What are some different genres of reading texts?

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Novels, Short stories, Expositions, Folk Tales, Myths, and Poetry.

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Describe the genre: Novel

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Novels use the same basic literary conventions as do short stories, but they expand them by presenting more complicated plots, adding subplots, creating more nuanced characters, and deepening the debelopment of ideas. Usually introduced after the ages 9-12 when they are ready to sustain the more difficult challenge of novels.

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Describe the genre: Short stories

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Short stories are popular forms of literature in the elementary school classroom. A condensed story with a single or limited purpose. They contain plot, character, setting, pov, and theme. They include dramatic elements like: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement.

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Describe the dramatic element exposition

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The introduction of setting, main characters, and conflict.

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Describe the dramatic element rising action

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The event or events that allow the protagonist to make his or her commitment to a course of action as the conflict intensifies.

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Describe the dramatic element Climax.

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The point of highest interest in terms of the conflict, the point with the most action or the turning point for the protagonist.

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Describe the dramatic element falling Action

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The events that follow from the protagonist’s action in the climax.

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Describe the dramatic element Denouement.

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(Resolution) The point when the conflict is resolved, remaining loose ends are tied up, and a moralis intimated or stated directly.

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Describe the genre: Folk Tales

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They are old as language. Adapt from culture to culture. Generally defined as prose narratives that follow traditional storylines that arise from oral traditions in histories. Telling tales is culturally universal and shares a commanality with prim9itive societies alike, they are classified into categories: legends - narratives, creation stories and tribal beginings.

Fairy Tales: Fictional, recurring plots, begin with a formulaic opening line.

Animal Folk Tales: abound in every culture; in most cases, the animal characters are clearly anthropomorphic and display human personalities.

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Describe the genre: Myths.

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Hard to precisely define. Evoke events of a time long past, generally concern the adventures and misadventures of gods, giants, and heroes… Set in a time different from our human, historical timeline.

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Describe the genre: Poetry

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Encompass works written in verse, perhaps with a meter and rhyme scheme, and uses written language in a pattern that is sung, chanted, or spoken to emphasize the relationships between words and ideas on the basis of sound as well as meaning. There are three major categories of poetry: narrative, dramatic, and lyric.

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Define Aliteration

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The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables.

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Define Analogy

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A comparison of similar traits between dissimilar things in order to highlight a point of similarity.

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Define Figurative Language

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A word or phrase that departs from literal language. The most common examples are metaphor and simile.

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Define Hyperbole

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Deliberate exaggeration for effort. “The whole world’s problems are on my shoulders”

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Define Imagery

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Words or phrases that appeal to the senses.

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Define Irony

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The use of words to suggest the opposite of their intended meaning.

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Define Literal Language

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The actual definition of a word

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Define metaphor

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A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else. “The angry sea crashed against the wall”

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Define Simile

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A figure of speech that has a direct comparison between unlike things using like or as. “you are as quiet as a mouse”

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Define symbol

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Usually concrete objects or images that represent abstract ideas.

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Define Allegory

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A story in which people, things, and events have another meaning.

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Define Allusion

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A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person, or work.

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Define Attitude

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A speaker’s, author’s, or character’s, disposition toward or opinion of a subject.

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Define Cannotation

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The implications of a word or phrase, as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).

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Define Convention

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A device of style or subject matter so often used that it becomes a recognized means of expression.

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Define Diction

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Word choice.

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Define Euphemism

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A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness.

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Define Hyperbole

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Deliberate exaggeration, overstatement.

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Define Lyrical

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Songlike; characterized by emotion, subjectivity, and imagination.

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Paradox

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A statement that seems to be self-contradicting but in fact is true.

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Rhetorical Question

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A question asked for effect, not in expectation of a reply. The question presupposes only one answer.

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Thetorical techniques

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The devices used in effective or persuasive language.

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Soliloquy

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A speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud.