NUR ASYIQIN MOHD RAZLI & NADIAH HAS BULLAH
PISMP 2.08
SECTION A
a) Intended audiences
I. In children’s literature, the intended audience are the young children as
early from one year old to twelve years old
Purpose
II. The purposes of children’s literature are to motivate, give enjoyment
and the moment of imagination that enhanced their creativity of
thinking together with the instilments of moral values that indirectly
educate their life.
Style/ quality
III. The style and quality of children’s literature are broad; it could be in
illustration, attractive bold colours, wordless. It may come in rhyme,
shorter sentences, big pictures or fewer words.
b) 3 ways in which teachers can motivate young learners to read book
I. The teacher include active involvement during the reading session for
example make it into a drama activity where most students can
participate and entertained themselves
II. The teacher can make the learning to be more interactive by using
attractive visual, aided by animated figures while the teacher reads
book and the story are displayed by the aid of multimedia facility
III. Choose books that have the topic or contents preferred and loved by
the students, such as using the fairy tales medium if they loved to see
the battle between the goods and evils.
c) Suggest a book that you would select for your year 3 pupils and show how the
main character is both credible and consistent.
I. Title of books: Beauty and the Beast
i. The main character in the story is Belle, Belle is the most
beautiful girl in the village and many man wish to take her as
wife, but Belle loved to read books which the villagers thought it
is very peculiar and odd and she does not care what others’
think. Gaston the handsomest man in the village wish to marry
her but Belle decline for appearance does not matter to her but
the heart does. Belle love to read books and very diligent in
helping her father. Belle meet Beast, and despite the ugly look
of Beast she did not run away from him because of his
appearance, surprisingly she is charmed by his bravery and
sacrifice that she fall in love to an ugly beast. Belle stays
consistent throughout the story by not judging people by their
appearances.
d) How literature can be used of academically and personally
I. Academically
i. Using story content and make it into drama script and asked the
students to perform drama or specified into one character in any
story that caught the interest of the students and let them
change or improvised it according to their like. It is beneficial in
improving the creative thinking, reading and speaking skills of
the students.
II. Personally
i. Using books with specified topic that create an interest to the
students, for enjoyment or ways to reduce stress of the
problems that they are having. Facilitating the bibliotheraphy for
the students to show how problems can be solved.
Section B
Children’s visual reaction precedes their verbal understanding.
Based on the statement above, discuss with example the importance and ways
selecting appropriate picture books for young learners in a Malaysian primary
classroom.
By using appropriate picture books, it gives benefits to the young learners to
understand the story. The importance of using picture books is to develop young
learners imagination Picture books have a lot of pictures which tell a continuous
story. For young learner, the picture is the non - verbally direct method. The young
learner will look at the picture and tell the story or understand the story in their own
words. Thus, the young learner will understand the story by their imagination looking
at the picture.
Besides, the young learner will learn to communicate. Young learner will listen
to the story, look and interpreting the picture at the picture books. The teacher will
tell the story and the students will sit around the teacher that create intimacy
environment. The students will look at the picture and explain proudly to the class.
The students will communicate actively with the teacher and students on their
opinion about the story. Thus, the students will develop their language competences
and their vocabulary while sharing their understanding about the plot of the story.
The teacher must have criteria on choosing appropriate picture books that can
be used in the classroom. Firstly, the teacher must choose the theme of the story
that the young learner enjoy. Young learner often enjoys the stories that use
animals, humor or fantasy. The illustrations of the picture books are accurate to the
plot, character, and setting and pleasing to the eye. The picture must be big, and
colourful and striking colour. The picture is support the text and must less word.
Besides, the teacher must avoid choosing story that show stereotyping.
In a conclusion, the teacher must choose appropriate picture books that can
give benefits to the young learner during English Language classroom.
