Selecting Reading Material for Teaching Children Literature

Selecting an appropriate text is one of the important steps in teaching children literature. Thus, it is needed a scientific consideration especially based on the concept of educational psychology. As an applied psychology, educational psychology concerns on understanding of learning and teaching process and provides certain concepts to help education practitioners in solving learning and teaching problems. This paper mainly discusses theoretically and practically the dimension of educational psychology in selecting the text for teaching children literature in elementary school. Such dimension mostly focuses on children development in terms of cognition, personality, language, story and concept, and their implication on selection of reading material for teaching children literature.