A Study On The Rationality Of Selections Of Children’s Literature In Primary School Chinese Textbooks

With the advance of the new curriculum reform, children’s literature gets more get attention gradually. As we all know, language teaching materials are the most loyal partners for children, so children’s literature is the best choice for language teaching materials undoubtedly. Taking the primary language textbooks which published by Beijing Normal University for example, we analyze the rationality of children’s literature in primary language textbooks in the three parts in this paper.At first, we describe the definition and features of children’s literature, we also describe the relationship between children’s literature and the primary language textbooks. There are four rules to Identify a children’s literature:literature for children which they love to read, the literature meet the aesthetic needs of children, the literature in child’s accept ability and the literature spread good quality.Then we take the statistic analysis of the children’s literature between the advantages and the disadvantages. Although the children’s literature is combination of modern and classic literature which with beauty and diversify text description, there have also the following problems in children’s literature:the lack of originality, the political orientation is so clear, the lack of interesting and not close enough to children’s living life.At last, based on the statistical analysis of children’s literature and interviews with primary teachers, we suggest that the children’s literature taking the dominance in primary school textbooks; balancing the genre of children’s literature in the primary language textbook; choosing the articles close the lives of children; enhancing the fun of the selected literature; reducing the "teaching body" literature, respecting the original text of the election; being serious on the principles of pluralism and diversity of selected articles; the articles must be strictly selected to ensure that the quality.