German Children's Literature

Jaennetzi Reyes

Diana Sanchez

Liz Laboy

History

The concept of children's literature is very old in some countries while in others it’s a recent discovery. Children have not always

been the center

History • The first children’s picture book was

published in 1658 by John Cormenius.

• The title of the book was , The World of Things Obvious to the Senses drawn in Pictures.

• The book contained 150 pictures that demonstrated everyday activities.

• The book was first available in the following languages: Latin and German.

History

Contemporary children's literature

Victorian children’s literature

19th Century

Children Literature Characterization

Involves the reader Provides

LiberationTell

history

Contemporary Children’s Literature • The literary genre helps the child to free themselves from

adult oppression and find themselves.

• An important factor in children literatures is the respect demonstrates towards the audience.

• Children's literature has grown increasingly, a lot of authors have emerge.

• The authors seek to create stories that are of daily living.

Developmental Stages

Like the concept of childhood ,children’s literatures is very much a cultural construct that continues to evolve over time. Children's Literature compromises those texts that have been written specifically for children and those texts that children have selected to read on their own.

Developmental Stages

• In Germany, groups of seven to eight year old children who were learning to read are given different continuous reading tasks.

•Numerical Reading Task

•Number word reading task

•Nonsense word Reading task

Developmental Stages

The German children showed a big adventure in reading the nonsense words. This pattern of results is interpreted as evidence strategies for word recognition in two orthographies.

Differences Between German and English Children.

German Children

German children appear to rely on assembling pronunciation via grapheme phoneme conversion.

English Children

English children appear to rely more

on some kind of direct recognition

strategy.

“Books loved anyone who opened them, they give you security and friendship and do not ask for anything in return; they never go away, never, not even when you treat them badly. ”

― Cornelia Funke

Reference

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