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Jackson, Mary V. 1989. Engines of Instruction, Mischief, and Magic: Children's Literature inEngland from Its Beginning to 1839. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.Karin, L. 2004. Children‟s Literature: New Approaches. Basingstoke: Palgrave.Muir, Percy. 1954. English Children's Books. London: B.T. Batsford.Silvey, Anita, ed. 1995. Children's Books and Their Creators. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.Thwaite, Mary F. 1963. From Primer to Pleasure in Reading. Boston: The Horn Book.Townsend, John Rowe. 1974. Written for Children: An Outline of English-Language Children'sLiterature. New York: J. B. Lippincott.Watson, Victor, ed. 2001. The Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English. Cambridge,UK: Cambridge University Press.LLE 7206: INTEGRATING ORAL LITERATURE IN SCHOOL CURRICULACourse Description:Oral Literature is one ligament of literature that is currently finding its place in the secondaryschool curriculum. This course aims at designing possible ways in which oral literature can fitwithin the structure of the curriculum while at the same time maintaining its major characteristicof performance. The National Curriculum Development Centre released a literature curriculumin 2009 and suggested that oral literature is one of the components of literature that could betaught in the lower secondary grades. This course reflects on this development and it involves thebasics of oral literature and its sustainability in a multilingual classroom.Learning OutcomesLearners will be able to:i) conduct research in oral literatureii) select and design oral literature texts to use in different gradesiii) integrate oral literature in the language and other literature classesiv) make collections of various oral literature texts for reference purposesv) applyObjectivesThis course will equip learners with:i) more knowledge about oral literatureii) the ability to teach oral literature at various secondary school levelsiii) skills to critique oral literature texts visa vis the needs/background of the learnersiv) ability to teach oral literature without losing the core features like performancev) performance skills …..ContentLearners will revise the nature of oral literature and discuss its importance in the secondaryschool curriculum. The secondary school syllabus will provide the basis of fitting oral literature51