Course overview
This course aims to ensure students gain knowledge of literature for children, and understand concepts of characterisation, plot, world building, register, genre, representation, context, and multimodality.
- Introduction
- Families
- Friendship
- Communities
- Fairytales
- Quest Narratives
- Speculative Fiction
- Transmediation
- Nature
- Teaching with Children's Literature
Course learning outcomes
- Describe and compare the language and literary features of literary texts produced for children
- Explain how social, cultural and personal repertoires effect how literature is read and responded to
- Identify genres and forms of literature produced for children, and how considerations for text selection in the classroom
- Review and extend personal preferences and practices in reading children's literature