5.RECOURSES

5.1 STORYBOOKS

• WHY USE STORYBOOKS?

• Create positive attitude towards FL learning
• Exercise children imagination
• Listening to stories is a shared social experience
• Children enjoy listening to stories over and over again
• Natural repetition encourages participation in the narrative
• Meaning and predicting are important skills in language learning
• Introduce new vocabulary and sentence structures in a meaningful context.
• Importance of visual clues and prior knowledge.

The importance of reading books is gaining new insight or perspectives on issues that matter to the reader that helps them to have a new understanding of the world around them. Readers can apply the insight in everyday life or as a way of building upon the knowledge that already encompasses their mind and enrich their lives.

The importance of books are also found in how new discoveries pertaining to history are uncovered and/or revealed where the relevance of this the new information needs to be applied or amended in what already exists about a particular issue, topic or event. Thus, "new" books on existing issues are important because sometimes facts "change."

Example the story books in the classroom.