chapter 1

In ch.1 you learn about the values of literature for children. Books helps bridge the generational gaps between younger and older people. At each age level someone will have favorite books and an authors. Literature aslo helps with people learning their heritage. Literature also helps with child development later on in life as well as emotional intelligences. Finally, the value of literature helps expands the imagination.

Second part in ch.1 is promoting child development through literature. The first part is language development in where reading helps with learning more words quickly ata young age. Next is cognitive development where children it helps in remembering, anticipate, and percept things better. Children begin to look at things from different perspectivesand learn differently to. You also get a personality development with reading literature. This stage helps build a persons character later in life. They build a great self esteem in life that they can interact with different people.

The next stage is social development on where that children gains the beliefs and values that people older than them provide for them. Children becomes able to appreciate things more and able to channel their behaviors better in life. Readers also bring experiences with them when they read other books. Children have different responses to literature. Literature can motivate kids after they analyze everything in the text. In this chapter you learn that reading literature has many different stages in where they help children later in life. The chapetr help me in that it showed me when I get ready to have kids how important it is for them to read. Since I have been working with kids, I have found a love for reading historical and biograhical books. I do now look at things different after I have read something out of the ordinary. The one question I have about this chapter is that how can kids under three real analyze books at such a young age.