TSL647

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Unit 7: Material
Selection & Adaptation
FOR PRIMARY
SCHOOL
Introduction
Language Ability & Potential
Visual Features & Illustrations
Artistic Elements

Prepared for:
Madam Ngo Kea Leng
UiTM Kuala Terengganu

Prepared by:
Zuriyatiaslina bt Yahya
2011165863
TEDPE7B

Introduction
fun & engaging
the right book to read
important task (teacher)
motivating, interesting and suitable
Malaysian classrooms (mixed abilities)
choose according to the majority

Criteria for selection of

literary texts for children:
Content
Language Ability & Potential
Visual Features and
Illustrations
Artistic Elements
Cultural Content/ Suitability
Moral Values
Others

Content

Gender preferences
sports
careers

Sci f

war

Boys

animals
mysteries
biographie
s

fairy
tales

Girls
romances

adventures
history

travel

western

humor

religion

Examples of literary texts according to

gender preferences:

motivatin
g&
challengi
ng

Language
Ability &
Potential

age
ability &
maturity

language
level

sufficient
enough

vocabulary
linguistic
difficulty

challenging
frustrated

Language Ability & Potential

Independent

Levels of
reading
text
Instructional
Frustration

Visual Features &

Illustrations
-Generate powerful images
-Improve reading
comprehension
-bring texts to life & give
clues to some of the new
words

Visual Features &

Illustrations
children see the world with
different eyes.
-

- visually appealing
- visual input
- sophisticated reader of
visual text

Artistic Elements in
Children Literature
-

Lines

- Shapes
- Colours
- Textures & Composition
- Space

Artistic Elements in
Children Literature
-

Lines

- Suggests direction, energy, motion

and mood
Example: A Giraffe and a Half
written and illustrated by
Shel Silverstein (1964).

Artistic Elements in
Children Literature
- Shapes
- simplicity or complexity,
-rigidity (as in geometric shapes) or
- suppleness (as in organic shapes)
- The bigger a shape is in the
picture, the more important it is.
Example:
Madeline written and illustrated
by Ludwig Bemelmans (1939)

Artistic Elements in
Children Literature
Colour
Color can be observed for its hue,
lightness, and saturation (intense or
pale).
Examples:
Goodnight Moon written by
Margaret Wise Brown and
illustrated by Clement Hurd
(1947)

Artistic Elements in
Children Literature
Space
- Space is actually what draws
our attention to objects on the
page.

- Space can also create the

illusion of distance.
Example: The Giving Tree
written and illustrated by
Shel Silverstein (1964)

Artistic Elements in
Children Literature
Textures
-The impression of how a pictured
object feels.
- offer a greater sense of reality
to a picture.
Examples:
Where The Wild Things Are
written and illustrated by
Maurice Sendak (1963)

Artistic Elements in Children Literature

Composition
- the

way the illustrator

combines visual elements
into unified whole
- line + shape + colour +
texture
- unity, balance & sense
of rhythm

Artistic Elements in Children Literature

Perspective
the vantage point from
which we see the object
-

- see and think about

things in specific ways

References:

Module TSL647

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