HERCOR COLLEGE
Km. 1 Lawaan, Roxas City, Capiz 5800
ACADEMIC YEAR 2020-2021
Department: College of Education
Name of Instructor: Richele B. Dorado
Course Descriptive Title: Teaching and Assessment of Literature Studies
Course Code: EL 106
Schedule: MWF
Semester: 1st Sem/A.Y. 2023-2024
TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT OF LITERATURE STUDIES
WEEK 1-2 CONTENT
Name of Student Reporter: Melrianne N. Llamas
Year and Section: 4 A
NATURE OF LITERATURE
What you mean by literature?
Literature, a body of written works. The name has traditionally been applied to those imaginative works of
poetry and prose distinguished by the intentions of their authors and the perceived aesthetic excellence of their
execution.
What makes good literature?
Great literature is based on ideas that are startling, unexpected, unusual, weighty. or new. Great literature
makes us see or think things we never did before. The ideas underpinning the work challenge our accustomed
categories and ways of thinking, putting minds on edge. We may agree, and also we disagree.
How can literature be a significant human experience?
The human experience in literature contains themes about life and society that are relatable to readers.
Foregrounding distracts the reader and forces them to re-examine what they know about a topic through
unconventional language choices.
What is the significance of literature to our lives?
Literature allows a person to step back in time and learn about life on Earth from the ones who walked
before us. We can gather a better understanding of culture and have a greater appreciation of them. We learn
through the ways history is recorded, in the forms of manuscripts and through speech itself.
How does literature relate to our humanity?
Literature is the foundation of humanity’s cultures, beliefs, and traditions. It serves as a reflection of reality,
a product of art, and a window to an ideology. Everything that happens within a society can be written, recorded in,
and learned from a piece of literature. Without literature, life ceases to exist.
How is literature a reflection of life?
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Literature is truly the reflection of life and human experiences. Literature can allow people to relive their
memories. It also allows the reader to share the same experience with the writer. Lastly, literature allows the reader
to learn through a person’s mistakes and wins.
What is literature reflection?
“Literature is the reflection of human experience.” This quote is true. The human experience or a memory
is different through everyone else’s eyes. First, literature allows writers or readers to look back on their memories
because they can relive the memory or experience through words.
What is literature quality?
Quality literature is what makes up text sets that support inquiry and theme/concept exploration across
the curriculum. These opportunities, which also provide learners with experience in choosing text, support student
goal setting and reflection and formative assessment.
What is the format of literature review?
A literature review follows an essay format (Introduction, Body, Conclusion), but if the literature itself is the
topic of the essay, your essay will need to consider the literature in terms of the key topics/themes you are
examining.
Name of Student Reporter: Marly D. Espejo
Year and Section: 4 A
Teaching of Literature – An Overview
Values of Literature
What is value?
The phrase "values of literature" refers to those qualities of poems, stories, novels, etc. that make them
worthwhile to read. If we feel our time reading is well spent, we can say that a work has value for us. If reading the
work was a complete waste, then we might say it has no value for us. And there is a spectrum between the two
extremes. Of course, if you simply do not like reading, then you really have no say in the matter.
What is there to value?
A work of literature can be valuable in several ways. Open your mind:
Literature has…
Entertainment value
Political value
Artistic value
Cultural value
Historical value
Philosophical value
Moral value
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If reading it…
is an enjoyable way to pass the time.
can change the way people live with and influence
each other.
helps us contemplate the nature of beauty and human
creativity.
sheds light on the place and time of the author of the
work.
helps one understand the past and how the world has
evolved.
explores human knowledge, how we know and what
we know.
teaches a lesson that will inspire the reader to live a
better life.
Ethical value
helps us asks questions related to the standards of a
"good" life.
Entertainment value
Literature has entertainment value if reading it gives occasion to enjoy yourself. This type of value is
inherently subjective because not everyone will enjoy the same kinds of stories, styles, or themes. Being
entertained is important, but being bored does not give anyone license to reject a work outright.
Political value
Literature has political value if reading it gives occasion to change how a person thinks or acts. Politics is
about the management and flow of power. And power, like electricity, flows from one end of a circuit to another
to make things happen. Reading a work can jolt someone into action. It can reveal an injustice, outrage its readers,
give voice to the oppressed, ridicule those who are corrupt, etc.
Artistic value
Literature has artistic value if reading it gives occasion to contemplate the nature of beauty and human
creativity. There are many works of literature that experiment with the limits of language and its expressive
power. If I like how words can be manipulated to create beautiful works of art, then a work that tries to use words
that way in a new and unique way will have artistic value for me. If you don't like words, it will be difficult to see
the artistic value of any poem or story. The value will still be there even if you don't see it, however.
Cultural value
Literature has cultural value if reading it gives occasion to think about the place and time of the author
at the time the work was written. Authors might seems like supernatural beings or at least people who are way
above us, transcending the world down here to live among the heavens with their artistic visions, but they are
actually regular people like the rest of us. If their work addresses the attitudes, customs, and values of their time
(or another time), then the work has cultural value.
Historical value
Literature has historical value if reading it gives occasion to think about the past, how things changes
overtime, and how the world has evolved into what it is today. Historical value sometimes overlaps with cultural
value; if a work is really old, then it can give us insight into a culture so far back that we can also think about how
that culture might be a foundation for our own. Works of literature can help us learn about the past, process the
past, and use the past to our advantage. Sometimes the historical value of a work is that it shows us what we have
gained and what we have lost.
Philosophical value
Literature has philosophical value if reading it gives occasion to explore the nature of human knowledge,
how we know and what we can know. These questions are central to the production of art because any artist
must interact with the world in order to represent it, whether lyrically in a poem or through storytelling in fiction;
he must, to some extent, know the world. If a work invites us to think about perception, making sense of our place
in the world, or self-awareness, then we can say that it has philosophical value. In response to such works, we tend
to look inward and wonder, "who am I?"
Moral value
Literature has moral value if reading it gives occasion to learn a lesson. If a story or poem TEACHES us
how to live, or attempts to teach us, then it has a moral dimension. Is the work still valuable if we do not like the
lesson it teaches? Perhaps so. The best readers will see the moral value of a work even if the morals it endorses
are somehow distasteful to them. Moral value is a dangerous value to measure. The history of censorship, for
instance, is based on the idea that if a work teaches the "wrong" thing, it should not be read at all. This idea goes
all the way back to Plato, one of the earliest philosophers to explore the moral dimension of stories and poetry.
We have to be careful, I think, not to hold moral value as the most important one. If we reduce a story or poem to
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a moral lesson, or require that a story or poem BE a moral lesson that we can endorse, then we are USING
literature to back up our own beliefs.
Ethical value
Literature has ethical value if reading it gives occasion to think about ethical questions. If a story
dramatizes conflicts and dilemmas, it is not necessarily teaching us how to live, but it encourages us to
contemplate the codes that the characters live by. If a poem has a speaker who promotes a particular world view
or seems conflicted about the world he lives in, the reader can try to look through the eyes of that speaker and see
what he or she sees. We may not agree with a speaker's or character's morality, but seeing that morality in action
can shed light on what it means or how it changes the world. If we reflect on a moral code, instead of simply
rejecting it or embracing it, then we are thinking ethically, and literature that promotes such thinking is ethically
valuable. Here are some important ethical questions: What is the good life? What is the excellent life? Where do
the definitions of good and excellent come from? Why do different definitions come into conflict? On what basis
do they conflict? Remember: works that raise questions do not always answer them. To measure the ethical value
of a work of literature, we need to ask the following questions:
 Do the characters make choices in the work? What are those choices?
 Do the characters or speakers defend particular beliefs or points of view? What are they?
 What motivates those choices or beliefs or points of view in the work?
 Where does the confidence in that motivation come from in the work?
 Is there a crisis in that confidence in the work? Why?
 To what place do those choices or beliefs or points of view lead in the work?
Name of Student Reporter: Rhea Mae Arciga
Year and Section: 4 A
Factors Affecting Interests in Literature
Why study literature?
It helps to promote empathy to the child in developing great understanding of human condition.
Get to travel to other realms and times through the texts they read and understand about their own culture and
others.
Learn to empathize with characters to feel their joys and pains.
Learn to consider multiple perspectives and understand the complexity of human nature.
Develop a sense of individuality and creativity.
Learn skills of persuasion as they need to convince others of their interpretations and this builds their confidence.
Develops students in enduring values such as integrity, compassion, loyalty and responsibility.
It can introduce students to a range of aspects not also of the language but also of the culture.
Learns the contexts and meanings of famous quotes and phrases.
Provides an alternative to the pervasiveness of television culture with its immediacy and often its shallowness.
Students can learn not only language aspects such as vocabulary items but also that language can be used for specific
and aesthetic purposes.
Factors that Affect Interest in Literature
You need to learn how to read.
Getting used to or becoming a habit of reading and wanting for more.
It becomes part of communication for you and to the world.
You get to grow up with it or some grew only having literature from their childhood as their only entertainment.
Why are you NOT INTERESTED in literature?
“I don’t have time.”
Books are expensive.
I don’t know what to read.
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Can’t I just watch the movie?
Reading is too hard.
I just never got into the habit.
Reading keeps me awake at night.
Vocabulary itself
Choosing Books and Reading Materials
Children who choose their own books have an early advantage. It helps them make independent choices,
develop literacy likes and dislikes and understand their own reading ability.
Children who have opportunities to choose their own books have an early advantage. It helps them:
make independent choices
develop literacy preferences
understand their own reading ability
choose books for specific needs
Training students on how to choose books to read independently, the sooner they will recognize their reading
preferences. As they get older, they will have strategies to determine the best material for their own academic
endeavors.
Children may pick books that are too hard or too easy but this is part of the process. They won’t understand their
own reading preferences and ability until they choose books that they can’t read or don’t want to read. Very young
children will not choose books to read independently but they can start the process from an early age.
Children who read for pleasure are more likely to be successful in school. Part of developing this success is giving
them the skills on how to choose books to read independently. They are more likely to want to read a book they
have chosen rather than a teacher or parent.
Name of Student Reporter: Desian B. Roquero
Year and Section: 4 A
1. Strategies for How to Choose Books to Read
The first step is to find out what your students enjoy reading.
•Did they pick the book from the cover
•Have they read it before?
•Did they pick up any book because they felt overwhelmed by the task?
Take note of any common preferences and interests to inform your read-aloud choices. Teachers are
influential in developing a love of reading in children. This means we need to promote their access to a varied
selection of reading materials. For example, graphic novels and magazines can have as much impact on reading as
traditional books.
2. Using the Front Cover and the Blurb
Do your students look at the front cover when making book choices?
Give them time to explore books in your classroom or school library. Ask them to choose a book just from
the front cover. What book covers interest them? Colourful, bold, realistic, fantasy, muted, animals, people, etc.
Once the children have chosen a book by the cover, teach them about the benefits of a book blurb. Even
though the blurb on a picture book or an easy reader is small, there will be enough information for them to make an
initial decision. Does the book still interest them? If so, get them to explore random pages to further gauge their
interest.
3. Exploring the Interests of Your Students
Ask your students questions for inspiration and help them narrow down their interests. Here are a few
examples:
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•Do they like scary or funny books?
•Who is your favourite character or author?
•Do they enjoy fiction or nonfiction?
•What kind of movies and TV shows do you like to watch?
•What type of books don’t you like?
4. Find a Book Series to Follow
Another great strategy is to find a book series students can get invested in. They will enjoy following the
same characters through different adventures and benefit from knowing the book is a good fit.
5. Understanding Reading Level and Ability
The 5 Finger Rule is one way for children to gauge whether a book is within their reading ability. It is a
versatile strategy and can be used with any reading material.
PROCESS: After choosing a book, students select a page at random and read it. When they come across a word they
don’t know or understand they raise a finger.
•If they have 4 or 5 fingers up the book will be too hard.
•If they have 0 or 1 finger up the book will be too easy.
6. Helpful Questions on How to Choose Books to Read
Ask your students the following questions to support them in making appropriate book choices.
Encourage them to verbalize and explain their choices.
•What type of book are you looking for?
•Are you looking for fiction or nonfiction?
•Are you looking for something funny, scary, adventurous…?
•Does the book cover spark interest?
•Does the cover provide any clues to the theme of the book?
•Does the blurb make you want to find out more about the book?
•Does the topic or theme of the book interest you?
•Is the book part of a series?
•Do you think you would want to read more about the characters?
•Do you know the author?
•Have you read any of their other books?
•Does the length of the book seem a good fit for you?
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