Power point to accompany You Tube video at Professors Providing Professional Development Channel

1. Why do we share
literature with
kids?
Professors Providing Professional Development Channel

2. Because…it is fun
• http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED496343.pdf
– According to Nell (1988), reading for pleasure is
a form of play that allows us to experience other
worlds and roles in our imagination.
– Reading enjoyment is more important for
children’s educational success than their
family’s socio-economic status. (Krashen, 1999)
– According to Alvermann (2001, p. 680) ,“the
possibility that as a culture we are making
struggling readers out of some adolescents who
for any number of reasons have turned their
backs on a version of literacy called school
literacy is a sobering thought”.

3. • Becoming a lifetime reader is predicated on developing a love
of reading (Sanacore, 2002).
What the research says about reading
for pleasure…

4. Because it aids in the acquisition of
language and language development

5. Scholastic
Book Fair
Display

6. http://1000booksbeforekindergarten.org/
1000 Books Before Kindergarten

7. • According to Benton & Fox (1985, p. 15): stories provide the
possibility of educating the feelings and can offer their
readers potential growth points for the development of a more
subtle awareness of human behaviour.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201412/can-reading-fictional-story-
make-you-more-empathetic
Because it develops empathy

8. • UNCONSCIOUS DELIGHT
It supports lifelong readers

9. • READING AUTOBIOGRAPHICALLY
It supports lifelong readers

10. • READING FOR VICARIOUS EXPERIENCES
It supports lifelong readers
http://www.gailgiles.com/Why_Teen_Need_Edgy_Fiction.html

11. • READING FOR PHILOSOPHICAL SPECULATION
It supports lifelong readers

12. • READING FOR AESTHETIC EXPERIENCES
It supports lifelong readers

13. • To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage
which gives a view over wide terrains of history,
human variety, ideas, shared experience and the
fruits of many inquiries.
• (A. C. Grayling)
Because it develops the imagination

14. Because it can transmit culture