The first part of this article refers to the initial attempt to relate Nature to Literature since the age of Hellenistic Alexandria in Egypt. Alexandria was a metropolis of its time with a quite lively character of urban life. Influenced by that character Theocritus was the first to lay the foundations of what is defined as pastoral poetry. In the…

Shows how students improve their powers in writing nonfiction when they are asked to solve writing problems similar to those facing major novelists. Advocates teaching literature by teaching writing, and vice versa. (RL)

The teacher of literature can help children become aware of and sensitive to the world around them--its beauty, good, and evil. In teaching poetry, the teacher must choose poems he likes, read them aloud to the students, lead class discussions about student reactions to poems, and allow students to write and to memorize poetry for enjoyment. The…

A sample of 264 eleventh-graders, stratified by selecting those who performed above selected scores on the Iowa Test of Educational Development to eliminate lack of adequate reading ability as a variable, were tested to determine the relationships between their emotional responses to literature, their ability to judge prose quality, and their…

Forty sixth-graders of three mental maturity levels--low, middle, high--were randomly assigned to classes using either the Preplanned Sequentially Structured Approach or the Incidental Unstructured Approach to determine the differential effectiveness of these two approaches in the teaching of literature appreciation. The effect of literature study…

To determine the most effective imagery method for facilitating kindergarten children's recall of prose content, a study investigated the effects of three mediums for presenting literature to children: storytelling, television, and dramatization. Subjects, 210 kindergarten students, were assigned to one of three gender-balanced treatment groups…