Red Riding Hood: The Importance Of Understanding Children's Responses

Red Riding Hood is a well-known story in many different cultures. Sipe introduced his book by an example came from a kindergarten classroom. The answer of a boy after he was asked what he thinks that this book -Red Riding Hood- might be about, his answer was worth being the example that Sipe laid out his book on. This example has helped us as readers to see what kind of understanding and connections does children do while handling picture books. After convincing the reader of the importance of understanding children's responses, by describing picture storybooks as sophisticated aesthetic objects, which shows that children have literary critical abilities. Sipe introduced various theoretical perspectives on children's literary understanding.

Sipe described this by saying that; children analyzed the text; linked the text with other texts and cultural products; formed relationships between the text and their own lives; entered the world of the text and allowed it to become their world; and used the text as a platform for their own creativity. Furthermore, the book shows that these responses reveal that children are engaged in five types of literary meaning making, and that these five types are instantiations of five foundational aspects of literary understanding. Moreover, the five types or aspects of Literary Understanding described previously are synthesized to advance a theory of the literary understanding of young children.

Finally, Sipe pointed out the role that teacher and adults play in which the way they scaffold children's interpretation of stories. In this book, Sipe ended his work by asking a question on the significance of young children's literary interpretation; Sipe exclaimed that to understand stories and how they work is thus to possess a cognitive tool that not only allows children to become comprehensively literate, but also to achieve their full human