February 22, 2010
The Love of Literature
Linda Sasser makes a great point in her article "Teaching Literature to Language Minority Students." She explains that teachers should not only focus on comprehension of a work, but to also help students understand the "beauty" of literature. Not only am I worried about teaching ELLs language arts, but I am wondering how you can teach someone how to love literature. The reason why I want to teach language arts is because I do love literature so much, and that is what I want to pass down to my future students. I want to make my classroom as exciting as possible, and this will help ELLs be more motivated to learn about literature.
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In my opinion, it's not so much about how to teach someone to love literature, but that you can model your own love of literature and she will be inspired by that. Knowing and sharing your passion with students will cause them to want to know more and to share in that with you!
ReplyDeleteFirst off, I'm excited that you still read my blog! Second off, I remember discussing modeling reading in your class last semester! Thank you for reminding me of this great idea!
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