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Download full textSloan, Glenna Davis – 1977
This article supports the view that it is not only possible but also essential that literature be taught in elementary schools, arguing that literature belongs at the center of a school's language arts curriculum. The question of how literature may be taught and learned is discussed, and explicit suggestions for its study are delineated. Specific…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Figurative Language
