Teaching World Literature in the Primary School

Teaching World Literature in the Primary School - "QCA’s Reading Differences project aims to help primary teachers introduce children to literature from other countries. It is about ways of reading as well as about what to read. It is about reading different texts and reading texts differently. By reading different texts, we mean ones whose origins beyond the UK give them a particular interest and appeal. These books are likely to contain experiences, voices, cultural references and social patterns that are new and fascinating to children, as well as offering new perspectives on familiar themes. By suggesting that we read differently, we mean that ways of reading may sometimes need to change if we are to make sense of what is distinctive in these texts. We need to read in an especially receptive way, responding to the cultural and linguistic qualities in the books and relating them to what we know about their countries of origin. How to develop this way of reading is one of the main concerns of the project."

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