Literature plays a pivotal role in supporting, sustaining and developing literacy and language learning. As teachers we know that it is impossible to separate language or literacy learning from literature. Students learn language that is relevant and meaningful for their current and future social interactions through talking, listening, reading and writing.
"Understanding, appreciating, responding to, analysing and creating literature: an enjoyment in, and informed appreciation of, how English language can convey information and emotion, create imaginative worlds and aesthetic and other significant experiences."
Teachers, parents and the greater community promote varying aspects of language and literacy development through exposure to a range of texts. The Shape of the Australian Curriculum: English (ACARA 2009) describes literature for students as inclusive of poems, films, stories, websites, plays and a range of other literature forms. Enthusiasm in literature is a crucial milestone, and is also one of the hardest to teach. Having a diverse range of items classed as literature ensures that the greatest possible range of students can find a type of literature that suits their personal, cultural and social needs.
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