Children's Stories Research Articles

Destructive Environmental Discourse: An Author's Writing Strategy in Children's Stories

Destructive Environmental Discourse: An Author's Writing Strategy in Children's Stories

Interactive Multimedia Based on Contextual Children's Stories: Improving the Skills of Writing Fairy Tales for Elementary School Students

Interactive Multimedia Based on Contextual Children's Stories: Improving the Skills of Writing Fairy Tales for Elementary School Students

Research on the Design of Children's pop-up book Integrating Mongolian Stories

Pop-up book, a child, not only tells stories in a vivid and creative way, but also stimulates children's interest in exploration and reads in a game way through pop-up book's unique layout design and changes in the three-dimensional structure of paper. Mongolian folk children's stories, with their unique ethnic customs and artistic characteristics, have become an important medium for the inheritance of national culture, which brings important influences to children such as cultural enlightenment, personality foundation, moral enlightenment and life experience, and is also an important resource for children's language learning. Mongolian folk children's stories can also make children feel the particularity of national language, which is conducive to stimulating children's interest in learning national language and grasping the direction and ways of learning national language. This paper discusses the design of children's pop-up book with Mongolian stories. Moreover, this paper will also put forward some new design ideas to increase the interaction between children's three-dimensional books and children. Through these reforms and innovative designs, children's three-dimensional books can have better communication functions with children on the basis of traditional books, and can bring better reading experience to children readers.

Learning-skill stories completion: A study on the development of 3–6-year-old children's narratives

The development of children's narrative language is an essential part of their language development, which has a unique value to children's future learning and growth. Many research studies focus on children's narrative ability, but few focus on the completion of Chinese children's stories. In this study, 191 Chinese children aged 3–6 years old in the Shanghai area were selected to collect a story corpus by using the international and general completion pictures of learning stories, supplemented with the method of corpus study to explore the characteristics of children's narrative language development in the learning-skill stories. The study found that the development of vocabulary, syntax, and other aspects of 3–6-year-old children showed an apparent upward trend. The variety of words, the types, and the frequency of nouns and adjectives increased with age. Regarding the perspective of syntactic analysis, the critical stage in the development of syntactic length was about 5 years old. The narrative situation of the learning-skill stories could help children to show a better narrative level. At the age of 3–6, the story structure of children's learning-skill stories gradually became complete and three-dimensional with age, and the richness of children's life experiences was an essential factor in promoting the integrity of the story structure. In the Chinese context, reactive sequences and abbreviated episodes were the main types of story structure in children's narration. The narratives of children's learning-skill stories were influenced by Chinese culture.

Development of Comic Media for Children's Stories Material Characteristics of Poetry in Indonesian Subjects to Increase Students' Interest in Reading

This research is motivated by the limited teaching materials in elementary schools and the lack of development of learning media that can attract students' interest in reading. This development research aims to produce children's story comic products, namely KOMPISA (Indonesian Smart Comics) and find out the practicality and effectiveness of students towards Children's Story Comics in Indonesian Language Subjects in class IV, so that the quality of learning at school is much more enjoyable and is better able to hone their skills. students in increasing interest in reading.. The results of this study, produce Children's Story Comics that can be used at the elementary school level as teaching materials for students who have met the very good criteria with an average score of the three experts, namely 96.9% in the very category. feasible to use, and the practicality level of 87.9% is in the very practical criteria and the level of effectiveness with an average of 90% is in the very effective category. The teaching materials for children's story comics are appropriate, practical and effective for use in learning Indonesian, material for the characteristics of poetry for grade IV elementary schools.

Intersections of age and agency as trans and gender diverse children navigate primary school: listening to children in (re)considering the potential of sexuality education

ABSTRACT The adult-centric concept of ‘age-appropriateness’ is an arbitrary signifier and yet it commands a powerful common-sense appeal in governing the shape of sexuality education. The visibility of LGBTQ+ lives in primary schools is deeply impacted by the cis-heteronormative ways in which age-appropriateness is commonly understood and mobilised; very often resulting in silence and delay. The concept of age-appropriateness also becomes entangled with moral panics about ‘promoting’ LGBTQ+ lives, or children being somehow ‘recruited’ to identify as LGBTQ+. This paper draws on findings from a study with the parents of eleven trans and gender diverse children (then aged between 5 and 13) conducted in 2017, as well as a follow-up study conducted with seven participants from the same group of parents and children in 2022. The paper explores how the politics of age and agency intersect and become intensified as trans and gender diverse children and their parents navigate and make decisions about their bodies, lives and everyday worlds in primary schools. These stories of trans and gender diverse children provide an arresting invitation to adults to attend closely to the rich stories of children themselves in (re)considering the potential of sexuality education across contexts.

Developing Children's Language Skills through Storybooks Based on Religious Moderation

This research is a research and development that aims to produce children's story books based on religious moderation in order to develop language skills and to form a profile of Pancasila students in early childhood. This research started from the results of pre-research conducted through a survey which showed the fact that it was still rare to find references to teaching materials with special themes on religious moderation used in learning at Raudlatul Athfal. The research design uses the ADDIE model which consists of the Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluate stages. The results showed that the product development of children's storybooks based on religious moderation is valid and feasible for use in PAUD learning. Moreover, the result also shows that this book has a real contribution to developing language skills in teaching religious moderation and shaping the character of early childhood in accordance with the profile of Pancasila students.

The Think Pair Share Cooperative Learning Model Assisted by Children's Story Text Improves Speaking Skills

The learning model the teacher uses needs to be more diverse and more able to accommodate the development of speaking skills. It causes students' speaking skills not to develop optimally. This study aims to analyze the effect of the think pair share cooperative learning model assisted by children's story texts on speaking skills in fourth-grade elementary school students. This study used a quasi-experimental design with a non-equivalent control group design. The population in the study were all fourth-grade elementary school students consisting of 11 fourth-grade students with 340 students. The data collection method uses the non-test method in the form of an observation sheet. The technique used is descriptive statistical analysis and inferential statistics. The results of testing the hypothesis showed a significant difference between students taught with the cooperative model of the think pair share type assisted by children's story text and students taught with conventional learning models. The cooperative model of the think pair share type influences the speaking skills of fourth-grade elementary school students. It was concluded that the cooperative model of the think pair share type can improve speaking skills in fourth-grade elementary school students.

Honey, let's read a story together; mothers' lived experiences of joint story‐reading with their child: Insights from an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)

AbstractMother–child dyads were invited via Instagram to read 10 children's short stories together over the course of 10 weeks. Stories were read to/with the child on a self‐paced, once‐weekly basis in the mother's presence, on WhatsApp and Skype. Children were elementary school age, that is, 7–11 years. Analysis of interview transcriptions with mothers indicated three major themes: empathy, improved filial relations and emotion regulation of parent. Mothers emerged more empathic and aware of their emotions 3–4 weeks into the intervention, with a better understanding of and grip on themselves. They also experienced better regulation of emotion and a closer filial connection with their child over this period. Limitations of the study and guidelines for future research are also discussed.

Drawing a River: Utilizing the Power of Metaphors in Interviews With Children and Young People.

In the field of qualitative health research on children, scholars have called for the inclusion of children's perspectives. Still, health care research on children appears to be characterized by an exclusionary approach that stems from a conception of disability and sickness as equivalent to a lack of agency. This article responds to the call to include children's perspectives. It presents the Double-view (Dovi)-river interview, which is a drawing- and metaphor-based interview method that enables ambiguous and multi-layered life course narratives. Based on two steps - (1) a life course interview conducted while drawing a river of the child's life and (2) revisiting and unfolding the child's stories - the method allows for an arts-based, joint exploration of life experiences. Inspired by childhood studies as well as a poststructuralist epistemology, the article discusses and proposes ways to challenge power relations between the adult interviewer and the child interviewee. It is argued that the method can also challenge the predominant deficit view and the dichotomous understanding of children's experiences of their life and capabilities that characterize much health care practice and health research, by focusing both on challenges and opportunities. Doing so enables a more nuanced and appreciative approach to children. We draw on empirical examples from a study with children with disabilities. However, we suggest that the method's potential for enabling articulation of the complex and ambiguous can inspire qualitative research and health care practice more broadly.

SOCIAL CRITICISM IN ARIFIN C. NOER'S MATAHARI DI JALAN KECIL (A STUDY OF LITERARY SOCIOLOGY)

This study aims to determine the effect of the use of wayang media on the skills of listening to children's stories in class II SD Negeri 3 Lengkong. This research was conducted at SD Negeri 3 Lengkong from April to May 2023. The research method used in this study was a quasi-experimental design with a Non-Equivalent Control Group Design. Sampling was carried out using purposive sampling technique. The research sample for class B (experimental class) was a number of students. The instrument used in this research is an essay test. The data analysis technique used in this study was the normality test using the Kolmogrov-Smirnov test, homogeneity test using One Way Anova. Then proceed with testing the hypothesis using the T-test. The results of this study indicate that there is an effect of the use of wayang media on the skills of listening to children's stories in class II elementary school students. This is indicated by the results of statistical testing using the t test on the final test data (posttest) and it is known that Tcount 8.98 Ttable 1.69913, the hypothesis is accepted, meaning that there are differences in listening ability between classes using wayang media and classes using picture media , Based on the results of the N-Gain Test it is known that the results of the experimental class test before being given the wayang media treatment (Pretest) obtained an average value of 50.31. While the test results after being given the wayang treatment (posttest) was 83.75. Then obtain an N-Gain result of 0.71, then in accordance with the N-Gain criteria these results can be expressed as high criteria. While the test results in the control class which were carried out before using media images (pretest) obtained a value of 44. After being given the treatment it became 78. And obtained an N-Gain result of 0.64, according to the N-Gain criteria the result can be stated in the medium criteria. The conclusion is that there is a difference after it is proven in the N-Gain test. The experimental class with wayang treatment experienced a high increase compared to the control class which used image media.Keywords: Listening, quasi-experimental, instructional media, Wayang.

THE EFFECT OF USING PUPPET MEDIA ON THE ABILITY TO LISTEN TO STORIES IN CLASS II SD NEGERI 3 LENGKONG

This study aims to determine the effect of the use of wayang media on the skills of listening to children's stories in class II SD Negeri 3 Lengkong. This research was conducted at SD Negeri 3 Lengkong from April to May 2023. The research method used in this study was a quasi-experimental design with a Non-Equivalent Control Group Design. Sampling was carried out using purposive sampling technique. The research sample for class B (experimental class) was a number of students. The instrument used in this research is an essay test. The data analysis technique used in this study was the normality test using the Kolmogrov-Smirnov test, homogeneity test using One Way Anova. Then proceed with testing the hypothesis using the T-test. The results of this study indicate that there is an effect of the use of wayang media on the skills of listening to children's stories in class II elementary school students. This is indicated by the results of statistical testing using the t test on the final test data (posttest) and it is known that Tcount 8.98 Ttable 1.69913, the hypothesis is accepted, meaning that there are differences in listening ability between classes using wayang media and classes using picture media , Based on the results of the N-Gain Test it is known that the results of the experimental class test before being given the wayang media treatment (Pretest) obtained an average value of 50.31. While the test results after being given the wayang treatment (posttest) was 83.75. Then obtain an N-Gain result of 0.71, then in accordance with the N-Gain criteria these results can be expressed as high criteria. While the test results in the control class which were carried out before using media images (pretest) obtained a value of 44. After being given the treatment it became 78. And obtained an N-Gain result of 0.64, according to the N-Gain criteria the result can be stated in the medium criteria. The conclusion is that there is a difference after it is proven in the N-Gain test. The experimental class with wayang treatment experienced a high increase compared to the control class which used image media.Keywords: Listening, quasi-experimental, instructional media, Wayang.

How powerful are Chinese characters' effects on children's creativity?

This paper conducts a preliminary evaluation of a learning strategy for Chinese native speakers to learn Chinese characters more effectively. The study utilizes a newly developed creative instruction approach called a Two-Stage learning Model (TSLM) and investigates its effects on students' verbal creativity and creative writing. The researchers developed this learning strategy based on children's self-generated stories, rhymes, and pictures of new Chinese characters they are learning. Learning in this manner is a natural approach because the Chinese people developed characters from drawings of natural objects, items from everyday life, and abstract concepts. This study adopted a quasi-experimental design with 54 participants (27 boys and 27 girls) in the 4th grade in an urban elementary school in Taiwan. The experimental group underwent TSLM instruction for eight weeks, and the control group received regular instruction. Participants were asked to use imagination and draw a character's picture, then explain their drawings by writing stories or making rhymes of the assigned characters. Three quantitative instruments were applied: New Creative Thinking Test (NCTT) for measuring divergent-thinking skills; Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT) for evaluating creative products; and Chinese characters' recall test for assessing the number of characters recalled. Results indicated enhancement of three constructs of NCTT: fluency, flexibility, and originality. Moreover, they showed that children who underwent treatment scored higher on the creative writing tasks; the recall test results were insignificant suggesting that the difference between groups in creative performance was due to TSLM instruction. The study provides the first demonstration in real educational settings of how Chinese characters could promote verbal creativity.

Developing critical thinking among children and bibliotherapy in the library

Purpose. The paper aims to point out the possibilities of developing critical thinking in children by conducting bibliotherapy workshops in the library based on the template of a traditional children's story. The work is based on a course that the authors run at the Croatian Training Centre for Continuing Education of Librarians to encourage critical thinking in children, develop reading habits and create a critical reader. It is based on workshops that were an integral part of the international project TRACE. Approach/methodology. The paper will present the workshops the authors conducted as part of the Erasmus+ project Traditional children's stories for a common future – TRACE. Workshops are shared with librarians through the Croatian Training Centre for Continuing Education of Librarians. We encourage children to think and create their own opinions using different methods, most of which are based on the modernized Socratic method. Results. Children often do not get to express their opinions by questioning their attitudes. The conducted workshops showed one of how it is possible to use stories with different ethical themes to stimulate critical thinking in children and teach them how to be active participants in their society. Practical use. Considering the possibility of using /combining several methods and conducting workshops in "continuations", it is possible to apply them both in school libraries and children's departments of public libraries. Originality and value. The paper points to the importance of developing critical thinking in children and highlights the value of traditional stories that influence children's awareness of their personality and shaping of their attitudes, contributing to the ability to solve life's problems and the development of a value system and the improvement of interpersonal relationships.

Pengembangan Media E-Book Cerita Anak pada Pembelajaran Menulis Siswa Kelas V Sekolah Dasar

Learning media plays a crucial role in the learning process, serving as a source of learning that helps teachers enrich students' knowledge. The objective of this research is to develop a suitable E-Book media for children's stories that can be used effectively in teaching and to describe students' responses to the media. This study adopts the Research and Development method, employing the ADDIE model. The developed media has been evaluated by subject matter experts and media experts, who deemed it "appropriate" for instructional use. This indicates that the E-Book media for children's stories meets the criteria of high quality for implementation in fifth-grade classrooms.
 Keywords: Learning media, Children`s stories, Indonesian.

Digital Edible Literacies: Ephemeral and Highly Affective

AbstractDigital edible literacies (DEL) are a new media phenomenon that has recently surfaced in social media but has not been examined in scholarly literature before. I exemplify the entanglements of food, media, and children's stories in three DEL exemplars shared on a private blog, Instagram, and connected Meta channels. Drawing on a genre analysis, I position DEL within affective theories and connect them to the concept of ephemeral and material affect. I argue that the ephemeral materiality of DEL expands children's literacies with new temporal relationships that exemplify the sensory dimensions of affect in literacy. This theoretical expansion is important to facilitate understandings of the complex affective qualities of new literacy ecologies.

Intersensory redundancy impedes face recognition in 12-month-old infants.

This study examined the role of intersensory redundancy on 12-month-old infants' attention to and processing of face stimuli. Two experiments were conducted. In Experiment 1, 72 12-month-olds were tested using an online platform called Lookit. Infants were familiarized with two videos of an actor reciting a children's story presented simultaneously. A soundtrack either matched one of the videos (experimental condition) or neither of the videos (control condition). Visual-paired comparison (VPC) trials were completed to measure looking preferences for the faces presented synchronously and asynchronously during familiarization and for novel faces. Neither group displayed looking preferences during the VPC trials. It is possible that the complexity of the familiarization phase made the modality-specific face properties (i.e., facial characteristics and configuration) difficult to process. In Experiment 2, 56 12-month-old infants were familiarized with the video of only one actor presented either synchronously or asynchronously with the soundtrack. Following familiarization, participants completed a VPC procedure including the familiar face and a novel face. Results from Experiment 2 showed that infants in the synchronous condition paid more attention during familiarization than infants in the asynchronous condition. Infants in the asynchronous condition demonstrated recognition of the familiar face. These findings suggest that the competing face stimuli in the Experiment 1 were too complex for the facial characteristics to be processed. The procedure in Experiment 2 led to increased processing of the face in the asynchronous presentation. These results indicate that intersensory redundancy in the presentation of synchronous audiovisual faces is very salient, discouraging the processing of modality-specific visual properties. This research contributes to the understanding of face processing in multimodal contexts, which have been understudied, although a great deal of naturalistic face exposure occurs multimodally.

Apuntes para una representación político-escolar de la infancia en el chile del siglo xix

In this paper, we propose to investigate one common adult representation of childhood that will serve both to reflect on and to problematize current and varied representations. As such, our object of study will always be a representation and not a substantialist definition. We propose to analyze the adult concept “child” from a critical perspective by reviewing it through a historical lens—that is, as it is expressed in the political and educational world of 19th century Chile, which, in turn, we can glimpse in the historical writings of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. To carry out this journey, we propose three guiding thematic axes: 1) how all school apparatuses embody, configure and assume a certain identifiable representation of “child’ and childhood; 2) an analysis of the characteristics and objectives of the 19th century Chilean school apparatus, particularly in its function as a government device, or dispositif; 3) just how that dispositif becomes visible to inquiry in the historical record, particularly in what it can reveal to us about the image or images of childhood held by adults. To be understood by adults as a boy or a girl in Chile during that period is communicated in the historical record through a myriad of diverse sources, each requiring consideration in its context. Magazines, syllabaries, school textbooks and children's stories configure different perspectives on and attitudes toward childhood, which in turn are associated with the social origin of these documents and the purposes they embody. The images, ideas and signs of interaction that appear in these school documents act cumulatively to reveal a cultural image of “child” and aid us in understanding the political and socio-cultural significance attributed to that period in the human life-cycle. And while we cannot claim to have identified how all adults of 19th century Chile understood and represented childhood, such documents do offer insights into the beliefs and assumptions of the political and ruling classes

The Quality of Translated Children's Literature in the Let’s Read Application: Evaluating Source Text Meaning Accuracy Using Angelelli's Scoring Rubric

This study evaluates the translation quality of a children's story, "Dive", in the Let’s Read app using Angelelli's scoring rubric. The focus is on the accuracy, fluency, readability, cultural adaptation, and style in the Indonesian translation, "Menyelam." The research uncovers the strengths and challenges of the translation process and its impact on the young Indonesian audience. With scores from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent), the study contributes significantly to the debate on translation quality assessment in children's literature. The findings offer insights for improving the translation process and reading experience for users of the Let’s Read app. The study underscores the importance of accurate translation and cultural adaptation to maintain the educational value and reader engagement in translated children's literature for diverse audiences.

National Orphans and a Nation's Trauma: Experience, Emotions, and the Children of the 1916 Easter Rising Martyrs

AbstractThis article begins the work of recovering and understanding children's unique experiences during the Irish Revolution by exploring the history of a diverse group of children and young people bound together by their fathers’ politics during and after the 1916 Easter Rising. In tracing the children of the executed and martyred rebel leaders of the Easter Rising, I seek to challenge and extend the way trauma has been conceptualized and applied by historians of Ireland's revolution, instead arguing that the methodologies of the history of emotions and experience offer more fruitful terrain to explore. In this way, trauma is not an essentializing state of being but instead is navigated, renegotiated, and resurfaced throughout one's life, frequently into old age. Leaning into the inherent uncertainty that writing about children's emotional experiences entails, I read into, across, and against fragmentary and diverse sources to recover the stories of these children who were plunged into national prominence by their fathers’ executions. I also acknowledge my own emotional response to these children's stories and seek to explore the methodological value of this affect in the archive for historians of the Irish Revolution.