A Brief Introduction Central to a literature-based approach to writing is the notion that writing should take the form of a discovery.
Children learn about writing by interacting with professional writers.
Making this reading-writing connection is essential for the continued growth and development of the students' evolving literacy and their expanding facility with language, thought, and expression. Undergirding and informing a literature-based approach to writing, then, is the notion that any encounter with a literary text should be holistic and aesthetic, and not simply reductive or narrowly analytical. This approach, moreover, does not require students to know of literature by forcing them either to listen to or arrive at an abstract exegesis of a literary text. Rather, this approach invites students to learn to know literature through literature, that is, through vigorous and multiple imaginative confrontations, with, and distillations of, literary texts. This website contains two examples of a literature-based approach to writing.