ABSTRACT
The National Curriculum and the National Literacy Strategy both stress the vital importance of providing rich and stimulating texts – fiction, poetry, playscripts and nonfiction material. All pupils are entitled to hear, read and discuss picture books, nursery rhymes, folk tales, legends and other stories in different genres, to be exposed to literature which will challenge and excite them and to learn, through lively discussion and sensitive analysis of the texts, just how language works.
