Companion presentation to the PPPD Video of the same name that can be found at bit.ly/pppd2016.

1. Why do we
share literature
with kids?
Professors Providing Professional Development Channel

2. Because…it is fun
• http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED496343.pdf
– According to Nell (1988), reading for pleasure is a form
of play that allows us to experience other worlds and
roles in our imagination.
– Reading enjoyment is more important for children’s
educational success than their family’s socio-economic
status. (Krashen, 1999)
– According to Alvermann (2001, p. 680) ,“the possibility
that as a culture we are making struggling readers out
of some adolescents who for any number of reasons
have turned their backs on a version of literacy called
school literacy is a sobering thought”.

3. • Becoming a lifetime reader is predicated on developing a love of
reading (Sanacore, 2002).
What the research says about reading for
pleasure…

4. Because it aids in the acquisition of language
and language development

5. Scholastic
Book Fair
Display

6. http://1000booksbeforekindergarten.org/
1000 Books Before Kindergarten

7. • According to Benton & Fox (1985, p. 15): stories provide the possibility
of educating the feelings and can offer their readers potential growth
points for the development of a more subtle awareness of human
behaviour.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201412/can-reading-fictional-story-
make-you-more-empathetic
Because it develops empathy

8. • UNCONSCIOUS DELIGHT
It supports lifelong readers

9. • READING AUTOBIOGRAPHICALLY
It supports lifelong readers

10. • READING FOR VICARIOUS EXPERIENCES
It supports lifelong readers
http://www.gailgiles.com/Why_Teen_Need_Edgy_Fiction.html

11. • READING FOR PHILOSOPHICAL SPECULATION
It supports lifelong readers

12. • READING FOR AESTHETIC EXPERIENCES
It supports lifelong readers

13. • To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which
gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety,
ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
• (A. C. Grayling)
Because it develops the imagination

14. Because it can transmit culture