{"id":9742,"date":"2010-03-28T21:07:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T01:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=9742"},"modified":"2010-03-28T21:07:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T01:07:26","slug":"glenna-sloan-northrop-frye-in-the-elementary-classoom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/03\/28\/glenna-sloan-northrop-frye-in-the-elementary-classoom\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenna Sloan: &#8220;Northrop Frye in the Elementary Classoom&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/03\/Talescover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9747\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/03\/Talescover.jpg\" alt=\"Talescover\" width=\"231\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are very pleased to add to the <a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/library\/\" target=\"_blank\">Denham Library<\/a> Glenna Sloan&#8217;s &#8220;Northrop Frye in the Elementary Classroom,&#8221; a speech she gave to the Canadian Literature Symposium on Northrop Frye in 2007.\u00a0 You can link to it directly <a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/northrop-frye-in-the-elementary-classroom\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Glenna brings what we very much need here: a consideration of Frye as a teacher, which, of all the remarkable roles he played, he considered the most important.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I begin with indoctrination. I preach the gospel according to Frye in  an effort to save teachers from the false teachings of the reading  industry. These include the notion that <em>how<\/em><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong>children  read is more important than <em>what<\/em><strong> <\/strong>they read,  that fragmenting the reading experience through inane drills of  so-called sequential skills is the way to develop literacy. The reading  pundits insist that suitable early reading material must be dumbed down  or, as they say, leveled, an unfortunate word which means written in  limited vocabulary deemed appropriate for the reader\u2019s age. I refer to  Professor Frye\u2019s blistering critique of Harcourt\u2019s <em>Adventure<\/em> series of basal readers when I insist that genuine literature is far and  away the most effective reading program ever devised.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with me, Professor Frye said: \u201cAs you read and write  from the basis of literature, eventually you realize that there is a  difference between learning to read and write at the minimum standards  of literacy and being able to write with some power of articulateness  and to read with some sense of direction<strong>. <\/strong><em>So the  teaching of literature is the teaching of reading and writing<\/em>. And  what you\u2019re aiming for here is the transfer of imaginative energy from  literature to the reader\u201d (University of Toronto, February 23, 1970).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Visit Glenna&#8217;s website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glennasloan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Children&#8217;s Literature and Literacy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very pleased to add to the Denham Library Glenna Sloan&#8217;s &#8220;Northrop Frye in the Elementary Classroom,&#8221; a speech she gave to the Canadian Literature Symposium on Northrop Frye in 2007.\u00a0 You can link to it directly here. 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