COURSE SYLLABUS IN CHILD AND ADOLESCENT LITERATURE

(Based on CMO-No.-75-s.2017-p45)
Course Descriptive Title: Child and Adolescent Literature
Course Credits: 3 units
This course provides a survey of the categories and types of the world’s literature for children and adolescents. Therefore, pre service
Course Description: English teachers will be able to demonstrate content knowledge on children and adolescent literature, promote literacy skills through the
use of varied literary texts that suit learners’ gender, needs, strengths, interests and experiences
Hours/week: 11 hrs./week
Prerequisite/s: Language, Culture and Society
Course Intended Learning At the end of the course, the students should have:
Outcomes (CILO): 1. Prepare an annotated reading list of literary selections and genres appropriate for children and adolescents and which will
demonstrate their content knowledge
2. Design literature/reading worksheets for teaching to enhance the literacy skills of future students that begins early in
school and continues through life; and
3. Perform an adaptation of a chosen literary text that suits learners’ gender, needs, strengths, interests and experiences,

Intended Learning Outcomes Course Content/ Subject Outcome-Based Teaching and Assessment of Learning Resource Time
(ILO) Matter Learning Activities (OBTL) Material/s Allotment
A. Children and Laptop 1-4 Weeks
● Expound on children and ● Discussion of the current ✔ Lecture
Children’s Literature Assessment 11 hours
adolescent literature and its 1. Personal and Academic topic Tool
✔ Recitation
historical development, in Values of Literature to Smart TV
● Small group discussion
relation to today’s rich Children ✔ Quiz
repertoire; and on the important
2. Relationship between
concepts, values, and ✔ Graded Essay (Rubric)
● Recognize how language Children’s
development of children
Development and their
development can be achieved and adolescent literature ✔ Graded Individual
Literature
through the use of children Discussion/Sharing
3. Historical Background ● Discussion and timeline
and adolescent literature. (Rubric)
of Children’s Literature making on the
⮚ Classical Period - developmental history of
children and
Aesop’s Fables
adolescent’s literature to
⮚ Anglo-Saxon Period – today’s rich repertoire
Epic
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 ⮚ Medieval Period ● Trivia quiz on famous
- ABC Books children’s literature and
- Hornbooks discussion/ storytelling
- Chapbooks of these classical tales as
⮚ Puritan Period –
representative of the
periods of children and
Fairytales, Folktales, adolescent literature‘
and Legends
⮚ John Newberry Era –
Children’s Books
⮚ Didactic Period –
Books for Teaching
Children
B. Elements of Children Laptop 5-8 Weeks
● Identify the elements of ● Lecture discussion on ✔ Oral recitation
and Adolescent’s Assessment 11 hours
children and adolescent’s Literature the elements of children Tool
✔ Reporting
literature making it a unique 1. Verbal Elements and adolescent literature Smart TV
genre of its own; - Writer’s Purpose ✔ Short quiz on the
● Class analysis of
● Analyze the verbal, visual, - Plot verbal, visual and other
elements of children and
- Characters stylistic elements of
and other stylistic elements of adolescent literature in
- Setting children and adolescent
literature in suitable children sample texts with
- Themes literature
and adolescent texts; and discussion and sharing
- Style
of their purposes, ✔ Individual/pair Stylistic
● Prepare a worksheet for 2. Visual Elements
appropriateness, and
children and adolescent - Line Analysis of a suitable
creativity
literature students to - Color children and adolescent
recognize elements in famous - Shape ● Individual/pair stylistic text(focusing on
texts. - Texture analysis on the verbal, Accuracy of Analyzed
- Style visual, and other Elements, Organization of
- Illustrations elements of literature in Ideas, and Language
3. Other Stylistic suitable children and Mechanics)
Elements adolescent texts
- Musical ✔ Midterm Examination

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 - Quality
● Worksheet Making
- Action
- Humor Activity for children and
- Story Interest adolescent literature
- Variety of Subject students to recognize
Matter elements in famous texts
C. Categories of Children Laptop 9-12 Weeks
● Identify suitable children and ● Guided discussion on ✔ Storytelling/Drama/Creative
and Adolescent’s Assessment 11 hours
adolescent literary texts for Literature (with the different categories Performance Presentation of Tool
each genre which will suit suitable texts) of Children and a chosen/assigned literary Smart TV
learners’ gender, needs, 1. Poetry Adolescent’s Literature text appropriate for children Pen/paper
strengths, interests, and 2. Picture and adolescent literature
● Identifying suitable
experiences; 3. Books (focusing of
children and adolescent Appropriateness of
● Prepare learning materials 4. Traditional Literature
literary texts other than Presentation and Text,
5. Modern Fables
and worksheets to the examples presented Creativity and
6. Modern Fantasy
introduce/aid/ assess children for each genre based on Resourcefulness, and
7. Realistic Fiction
and adolescent’s learning of learners’ gender, needs, Ability of Text to Pursue
8. Non Fiction
literary texts; and strengths, interests, and Children/ Adolescent
(Biographies and
experiences through Interest in
● Perform creative Essays)
class/small group Literature/Reading)
presentations, storytelling, 9. Historical Fiction
discussion and note-
and drama appropriate as 10. Multicultural and
taking
adapted from children and International Literature
adolescent literature ● Learning Materials
Development/Worksheet
Making Activity of a
chosen/assigned genre in
Children and
Adolescent’s Literature
● Storytelling, drama
and/or creative
presentations (i.e.
Tableau, Puppet Stories,
etc.)of a chosen/assigned
genre or literary text
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 appropriate to children
and adolescent learners’
gender, needs and
interest literature
D. Issues and Concerns in Laptop 13-15 Weeks
● Discuss the implications of ● Round Table discussion ✔ Critical Reflection Paper on
Children and Assessment 11 hours
some issues and concerns in Adolescent’s Literature on the Issues and Impact of Movie and tool
children and adolescent’s 1. Censorship Concerns in Children Television versions and Smart TV
literature to education 2. Social Issues and Adolescent’s other issues in Children and Textbook
language learning, and growth 3. Political Correctness in Literature Adolescent Literature Pen/Paper
and development Fables and Tales (focusing on Arguments,
● Discussion and writing
4. Rewriting/ Organization of Ideas, and
● analyze the impact of these of a critical reflection
Deconstruction of Language Mechanics)
issues and concerns to literary paper on the impact of
Classical Tales
selection, language teaching movie and television
5. Movie and TV
and learning materials versions and other issues
Versions
development; and in children and
adolescent literature
● Perform an adapted/
deconstructed children and ● Table Completion on the
adolescent literary text which Issues, challenges,
answers some issues and impacts and action to
concerns of the genre. answers some issues and
concerns of the genre
● Actual performance on
adapted or deconstructed
children and adolescent
literary texts
E. Teaching Children and Laptop 16-18 Weeks
● Recognize how children and ● Class discussion on the ✔ Graphic organizers as
Adolescent Literacy Assessment 10 hours
adolescent literature be an through Appropriate role of Media and formative assessment on tools
avenue to teach Books and Strategies in Technology in Children Appropriate Teaching Smart TV
multiculturalism and media Literature and Adolescent Strategies in Children and Textbook
literacy; 1. Multiculturalism Literature to include Adolescent Literature Pen/Paper
2. Storytelling and literacy/
● Identify strategies and ✔ Storytelling and Reading
reading/academic
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 techniques to storytelling and Reading Aloud development Aloud Performance
reading aloud for children and 3. Choice and Types of Presentation on suitable
● Preparation and
adolescents Books literary texts for children
4. Media and Technology presentation of and adolescents (focusing
● Prepare an annotated reading Storytelling and Reading
in Children and on Confidence,
list of books appropriate to Adolescent Aloud Simulation on Appropriateness of Material
children and adolescent’s suitable literary texts and Presentation, and
gender, needs, strengths Literacy Teaching Interest
● Interests, and experiences; and Effectiveness)
and d. perform storytelling/ ✔ Compilation of Annotated
reading aloud to children and Reading List and Literary
adolescents in line with Worksheets for Children
competencies from the K to and Adolescent literature
12 English Curriculum Guide
✔ Final Examination

Course Requirement/s: 1. Written Worksheets

2. Group Activity
3. Major Examinations
Grading System: Class Standing 60%; Major Exams 40 % (Skills 1/3)
Classroom Policies: Students are expected to:
o Practice CLAYGO (Clean As You Go)
o Observe EOP (English Only Policy)
o Demonstrate being MARIE at all times (Mindful of words and actions, Active in class, Respectful to others, Industrious in
accomplishing tasks, and Emphatic with colleagues)

REFERENCES: Corpuz, Brenda B. et.al (2015), Child and Adolescent development, Lorimar Publishing House Inc. Aurora Blvrd. Boston St. Cubao,
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Course Syllabus in Child and Adolescent Literature
Course Syllabus in Child and Adolescent Literature