Chilldren's Literature

This week we did a lot of singing and sounds that we incorporated into children’s books. I think this a great way to get children involved in the books we read to them, especially if they cannot read. This way they are able to engage in what is being read and interact with that. Kids are very imaginative when coming up with sounds for different activities and I think that in this way reading for them comes to life. Reading then becomes more than just words on pages that are being read, it comes alive into a story for them. I had never thought about doing something like this for a just any regular book. Boo-hoo baby was a great example of this because we took a song and changed it to fit into the book we were reading to help engage the listeners even more. This also allows us as teachers to see the creativity each child has and maybe we can get a better understanding of them through this. Student-centered learning is very prominent in lessons that involve activities such as this for many reasons. The child is able to chose the sounds they want to make, like in the listeners book, and they have the control of what they chose to do or not. Also because the students are interacting so much with the book and getting involved in what is being read makes these lessons very student centered. I think any way of getting children motivated to participate in their own way in lessons is the best tool we can have because it gets them so much more into what they are learning instead of getting bored with stories being read to them time after time. The two lessons we saw this week are good examples of what we can do in our lessons for this project.