THE ART OF READING, TELLING AND RETELLING IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Abstract

This work has by aim to discuss the relationship between reading, telling and retelling as part of the act of telling a story appropriate to the children, as well as to show their differences. In this sense, it was used as method of inquiry exploratory research in order to better understand in which way these three modalities are put together in the children’s storytelling milieu and as procedure it was chosen bibliographical research to establish theoretical basis in order to draw the singular characteristics of each one, so there were selected writers as Cademartori (1980), Zanotto (2003), Ramos (2011) and Sisto (2007), mainly and others that could help in the development of this paper like Garcia (2009), Santos (2014) and Bettelheim (2015). The results showed that indeed the three modalities keep an intrinsic relationship between themselves and that each one has its importance for the personal, social and cognitive development of the children, contributing significantly to the construction of their world as readers. Finally, it was clear that the reading is the first one of the stages in the art of telling, considering that it is through it one can get a first glance about the plot of the story someone had read, and the retelling, therefore, is the last, but not less important, stage of this process because it is in reason of it that the children recall and build a point of view about what they had listened.