Reading it gives occasion to think about the past, how things change overtime, and how the world has evolved into what it is today

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.

Reading it gives occasion to think about the place and time of the author at the time the work was written.

Reading it gives occasion to contemplate the nature of beauty and human creativity.

If reading it gives occasion to learn a lesson.

They should be surrounded by titles that reflect the lives of themselves as well as their classmates. When students find titles with characters that look like them and families that resembles their own or their neighbors, their interest level increases.

This is the quality of the literature that makes it valuable enough.

Is the story or topic familiar or helpful?

Are there abundant illustrations?

Is the language of the book simple and direct?

The location of the story should be clearly described in either words, illustrations, or a combination of both.

Children are drawn to uniquely created books.

It relies on the development of students’ knowledge by working with familiar grammar, lexical and discourse categories. It focuses on the way language is used in literary texts.

Transmitting important ideas and feelings, also sometimes universal, in the target language, and as a way in which students encounter a wide variety of words and expressions.

Its aim is to motivate the students: to read by selecting themes, to a large extent, related to their own personal experience.

Rosli (1995) says that this approach is suitable for beginners of target language as it acts as a stepping stone in formulating original assumptions of the author’s work.

It describes the study of literature as – aesthetically patterned artifact endowed with the knowledge potential philosophy, culture, morality and humanities.

Learners seek moral values from a particular literary text while reading it. It helps students to be aware of values of moral and philosophical and identify them that lies in their reading (Rashid, Vethamani & Rahman, 2010).

This will help them understand the role of language in literature and they will be able to appreciate the artistic use of language from their own point of view.