LGA3101Week 18Tutorial:Identify 3 texts you would consider for use with Year 4 6 students.Justify your selection. Explain the criteria you used.The story that I had chosen entitled belling the cat. This story was chosen for teaching the students of primary two. According to the pedagogical principle of teaching, it matched with the principle of age. This story was not too complicated that may discouraging effects on children. With this a one page length of stories, the students can understand in simple words and we can easily explain it with role play. Giving students a lengthy story will spoil the enjoyment of reading and the sense of appreciations towards a good piece of literature. Apart from this, this short story infused with moral value that provides opportunities for children to make connection between their understandings of lesson. This story will be given as enrichments or additional readings for the theme world of stories stated in KSSR. Moreover, this passage also encourage the students to able to write with guidance of simple sentences as well as compound sentence. The passage that we had chosen consisted of the conjunction of and. This story also enables students to think creatively accordance to how the story describes in setting, characters and events in the story. For example, the students can imagine how nervous the mice in carrying out the activity and how the mice get the deterrent effect from the cat.The story of The Flying Train by Janaki Sooriyarachchi was chosen as it fitted with the pedagogical principle of suitability. This is because, the stories are appropriate for the age group of nine. From the extract, we can find a lot of preposition in this story. While telling the imaginative story, the teacher can focus on the teaching of preposition. This matched with the standard stated in the KSSR. The KSSR showed that year three students started to learn preposition. One of the learning objective of standard three are enabled the students to use preposition correctly and appropriately as attached in the next page as a reference. With the colourful picture book and also the fantasy world, this story will act as a reinforcement in study. Variety colour will make the students pay attention to the storyline. The students like to imagine something that was new to them. As a year three students, they should be able to tell a story. By this, the teacher can train their speaking and thinking skill through this story. Moreover, one of the basic process in classical conditioning, Ivan P. Pavlov (2000), is acquisition. From here, the picture of train will act as neutral stimuli which attract learners attention. During conditioning, the learner will acquire new preposition effortlessly.The story of The Fox and the Cat was chosen according to the content that suite with the level of students. This play is not linguistically complicated and not too wordy. Moreover, the play has limited number of characters and contain an uncomplicated plot. With only two characters in this play, it will prevent the students from confusing. This matched with the standard stated in the KSSR. The KSSR standard also showed two characters and with short dialogue. Please kindly refer to the next page. Thus, it will draw the students to pay attention on the teaching. Besides, this play also fitted with the pedagogical affective principle. The children are drawn into the story, they started to like or dislike the characters by demonstrate their attitudes towards the characters in the play. Moreover, through this play, the students will acknowledge with moral value that was close to their daily life. The moral value is do not make fun of others, and dont underestimate their qualities which may seem insignificant. The students will learn to respect each other. With this moral value induced in the mind of the students, the students will cooperate with each other. Indirectly, they will bring up the atmosphere of caring in the classroom and enhanced effective learning environment. This can be proved from the Maslows Hierarchy of Need. Abraham Maslow (1943) believed that the basic needs include safety and security. Examples of security needs include good relationship between friends and teachers. With the criteria of safety, the teacher will be able to shape childrens behavior in learning.

ISL:Read Elementary childrens literature: the basics for teachers and parents. By Anderson, N. A. Appendix.