Group 5
"INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT FOR TEACHING LITERACY THROUGH
LITERATURE"
Why literature is an important part of learning?
- It offers a bountiful and extremely varied body of written material which is important in learning
fundamental human issues.
Why teach literature (in a language classroom)?
• It’s relevance moves with the passing of time.
• Literature is “authentic” material.
• Literature enriches cultural awareness.
• Literature provides language enrichment.
• Literature helps personal enrichment.
What to teach?
• Suitability of literary texts to students always depends on the different groups of
students, their needs, interests, cultural background and language level.
• Personal involvement, however, should always be the goal of a literature classroom.
• Strong, personal, and positive reactions are needed in the literature classroom.
How to teach literature?
• In devising activities for integrating language and literature teachers must remember
that learning involves as many of the students’ faculties as possible.
• Teachers should try to exploit as fully as possible the emotional dimension that is a very
integral part of literature.
• Helping students explore their own responses to literature could be achieved through
the different instructional materials prepared for classroom teaching.
• One of the principles which influence the classroom approach to literature is that of
using the target language with a range of activities chosen.
• To integrate the teaching of language and literature that aims to foster language learning
the teacher should never forget that literature.
First counters
- Draw the learners quickly “into” the text so that they find it interesting and want to continue
reading it on their own.
Suggested activities and instructional materials for first counters
1. talking about the title and cover design
2. Using questionnaires
3. Making a biographical montage
4. Continuing the storyline
5. Comparing beginning
6. Writing chapter
Maintaining momentum
- This part of literary learning allows the students to understand, enjoy and appreciate the literary
work.
Suggested activities and instructional materials for maintaining momentum
1. Question worksheet leading to pair work in class
2. Complete the sentence.
3. True or false
4. Summaries with gaps
5. Summaries with incomplete sentences
6. Summary comparison
7. Jumbled events
8. Choosing an interpretation
9. Snowball activities
Examples:
Retelling a story
Wall charts and other visual displays
Summaries
Montage
Graphic representation
Continuing predictions
Writing ongoing diaries
Exploiting highlights
- The activities for this part of the literary discussion in the classroom will help encourage the
students to explore and express their own responses to the literary work.
Suggested activities and instructional materials for exploiting highlights
A. Thought bubbles
B. Poems
C. Using authentic format
D. Newspaper articles
E. Oral activities
Examples:
Mini reading aloud
Poetry reading
Choral reading
Oral summaries
Endings
- This part of classroom literary learning keeps each students’ own sense of the literary work alive.
Suggested activities and instructional materials for endings
A. Roleplays
B. Cover designs
C. Writing a blurb for the back cover
D. Short writing tasks
Examples:
Letters
Essays
Newspaper articles
Journal
Members:
Sarah Joy M. Diaz
Dysabel Diaz
Nia Ann Calipay
Ma. Isabel Broñola
