Why do we read fiction? Do we read to learn about ourselves? To learn about others? To learn about our world? To escape into another world?
Answers to these questions are all – yes. We engage in stories in all forms and through story we learn about ourselves, we learn about other’s experiences, we learn about worlds we both know and can only imagine. As readers these experiences seem obvious, for many of our students the answer is not so clear. Often reading fiction is seen as ‘school work’, and the power of story to provide us with information is not a connection that is clearly made. This presentation will explore why this might be and how to challenge assumptions regarding information, how to engage with reading a story as a site of learning not of facts per se but of one’s self and our world. It will explore the embodied experience of reading, valuing emotional and affective actions as information.
This presentation will explore why the power of story to provide us with information is not a connection that is clearly made. It will challenge the participants assumptions regarding information, and will identify how teacher librarians can engage students literacy by reading a story as a way of learning about themselves and the world around them. It will explore the embodied experience of reading, valuing emotional and affective actions as information.
Karen Powers - Secretary