Reading Strands Understanding Fiction Author:Dave Marks Discusses the principles of teaching literature, developing critical thinking, the elements of fiction: setting, conflict, resolution, point-of-view. The ideas presented here are based on the knowledge that there can be great joy in reading, and that good literature can enrich anyone s life. The important thing to keep in mind, as you read throu... more »gh this small book, is that reading should be fun. If the young reader does not enjoy reading, it may be because reading is seen as work. The reader is either above or below the level of the material, or the material has not been selected with the reader s interests in mind. If your student does not like to read, change the program. Forcing a child who does not like to read the material may make that child hate the material. Change the material not the child. The point of this type of reading is the enjoyment of it, not the information it contains.« less