TALES FOR LESSON

I would suggest tales to be used as part of the lesson in literature. It will be best suited when you wanted to teach moral values. I would consider tales as authentic and parallel to other literature works as it contains dimensions of a literary work such as characters and plot. For example, you may be teaching poem. You may indirectly present the values through tales selected best matching the values in the poem. Students get the best of both works from two different genres. Teacher may just have to provide little to trigger students critical and creative thinking to actually enable them to relate the similar values contain in both genre. However, the story may be different. Besides, literature classes, even for language proficiency classes it may be effective in presenting something different to students. You may want your students to be creative and critical therefore, you have to present something unique and creative for them to explore that there is not only one way of saying, writing and thinking. Interesting tales will help to create a jovial classroom not a dull and silent language classroom. However, you must be creative in presenting the materials.

For the purpose of writing, perhaps the uniqueness of the tales may be an inspiration for students to actually write something of their own imagination. Students will be able to actually express themselves. They will definitely crack their head but it gets them to think creatively and critically rather than just reading. The point is students will be able to improve their writing skills and styles as their creative thought flows in their writing.