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Earl John M. Duquez

Ms. Michelle Marasigan

Children and Adolescent Literature

March 14, 2023

(List one personal and one academic value that children can get from reading literature and

explain how this benefits a child's literacy learning.)

Reading literature has always been deemed to benefit people when it comes to their cognitive,

language, emotional, and social skills, and so on. However, it is the children who benefit most

from it because through it they will develop the necessary aptitudes in the process of attaining

literacy.

To get to the point, one personal value that a child can obtain from reading literature in his or her

pursuit of literacy learning is an increase in imagination and creativity. And you may ask, how

this benefits a child's literacy learning? The answer is simple. Through imagination and

creativity, a child's mental growth would surely foster by proving him or her opportunities for

trying out new ideas, and new ways of thinking and problem-solving. In short, a child would

think outside of the box and get out of his or her comfort zone through imagination and

creativity.

On one hand, there is also academic value that a child can get from reading literature, and it is

the increase of his or her language, emotional, and social skills. Again, how can this value

benefit a child in pursuit of literacy learning? Let us first discuss the benefit of language skills.

These skills are of much significance because the ability to communicate, express, and
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understand will be improved and enhanced. Why are these abilities important? It is because they

will help a child to learn from his or her environment by absorbing new ideas and learning

beneficial for faster and better literacy. Secondly, the benefits of emotional skills. Through these

skills, a child would learn to self-calm and self-regulate. These will also develop the social skills

of a child like empathy, sharing, and turn-taking. Lastly, cognitive skills also benefit a child's

literacy learning in a way that these pivotal skills would allow children to understand the

relationships between ideas, grasp the process of cause and effect and improve their analytical

skills.

Ultimately, these skills such as creativity, language, emotional, and social skills are truly pivotal

to the child's literacy learning. These serve as milestones that a child would step on in pursuit of

holistic development, particularly in literacy.

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%2Dtaking

https://www.verywellfamily.com/what-are-cognitive-skills-620847#:~:text=Children%20should

%20be%20able%20to,to%20improve%20their%20analytical%20skills.

https://educationbusinessuk.net/features/bringing-together-creativity-and-

literacy#:~:text=Benefits%20of%20creative%20literacy&text=Creative%20literacy%20can

%20also%20encourage,to%20new%20ideas%20and%20challenges.

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1308657.pdf