First, the position of children's literature in early childhood education is mainly as follows:

(A) Children's literature is an important resource for preschool education.

Children's literature is a literary work created according to children's age characteristics and educational needs, and it is an ideal material for early childhood education. Children's literature contains all kinds of contents beneficial to children's physical and mental development and has become an important resource for children's education. Children's literature provides rich learning AIDS for children.

Pictures full of children's interest meet the requirements of children's language and are concise and vivid, so vivid reading can make children feel the charm of language under the influence of beauty. Children's literature provides materials for ideological and moral education and humanistic quality education for children's growth.

For example, snow children let children realize the noble quality of self-sacrifice, wolves and sheep let children know good and evil, and honest children let children realize the value of honesty. Many beautiful children's literature works can impress and infect children with profound images, beautiful language and beautiful pictures, so that they can appreciate, read and understand, and at the same time accept the beautiful ideals and moral edification of human society.

(2) Children's literature is highly consistent with early childhood education.

Children's literature is literature and people-oriented learning. Early childhood education is to shape and cultivate children's values and help them establish correct judgment, so children's literature and early childhood education are people-oriented and focus on educating people.

Children's literature bears the responsibility of ideological and moral education for children. For example, the poem "Silent Night Thinking" that highlights national culture; A fairy tale "The Emperor's New Clothes" that brings whimsy to children; There is a fable with profound meaning, such as "sitting on a well and watching the sky".

Children's literature is to find childlike interest, cultivate happiness and help children find spiritual habitat. Therefore, the emotional attitudes and values contained in children's literature are highly consistent with the purpose of early childhood education, improving moral cultivation and establishing good values in truth, goodness and beauty.

The role of children's literature in preschool education.

To cultivate children in an all-round way, it is necessary to extend the study time to life. Extracurricular activities focusing on children's literature can give full play to children's specialties and cultivate their hobbies and listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities. The genre of children's literature is rich in content, which provides rich materials for extracurricular activities. Children's literature captures children's hearts with its unique charm and helps them to improve their reading comprehension and discrimination happily.

Children's literature is a special kind of literature, its particularity lies in its service object and content, it must be close to children's life and psychological characteristics, and it must reflect children's typical thinking, behavior and language expression. Children's literature is a window for children to broaden their horizons and know the world, and it is also a way for adults to know the world of children.

Children's literature is rich in content, from the mystery of the vast starry sky to the mystery of the vast seabed, including flowers, birds, insects, fish, customs, myths and legends. When reading children's literature, children constantly enrich their vocabulary and promote the development of children's ability through thematic activities such as telling stories, fables and fairy tales.

Second, the role of children's literature in early childhood education

Children's literature is the mentor of children's growth, leading children to know life, know the world, accept the truth and feel beautiful. The role of children's literature in early childhood education is multifaceted, and its role is constantly strengthened with the development of early childhood education and the improvement of teachers' quality. Specifically, the role of children's literature in preschool education mainly includes the role of preschool education system, the role of preschool teachers and the role of children.

(A) Children's literature is conducive to the development of early childhood education

Early childhood education is an all-round process. Early childhood education is not limited to classroom education, but after-school education is also very important, including parent-child reading, story meeting and entertainment activities. In the early childhood education stage, we should integrate relevant children's literature works and use vocal music, pictures and other forms to form a good growth environment and atmosphere. Children's love for children's literature urges people to pay more attention to children's literature and make it develop better.

Children's interest is the forerunner of getting started. Children are quick-witted and lively, but they lack certain self-control and clear goals. Therefore, stimulating children's curiosity and interest should be the key to early childhood education, and children's literature has a unique advantage in this respect. Children's literature provides a lot of materials for early childhood education, which helps early childhood education to keep pace with the times.

Because of the close relationship between children's literature and early childhood education, early childhood education needs children's literature more than any stage of education. This mutual promotion makes the relationship between children's literature and early childhood education more and more close.

(B) the role of children's literature for preschool teachers

As the leader of preschool education, preschool teachers should first have good self-cultivation and teaching ability, specifically, teachers' love for children, professional knowledge and aesthetic ability, as well as rich emotion and imagination. Teachers should not only impart knowledge, but also have childlike innocence and be good at communicating with children. Children's literature contributes to the formation of teachers' quality.

Children's literature can help preschool teachers to enhance their image charm. Students' logical thinking is very concrete ... intuitive and concrete things are easy to arouse their interest. Stories, fairy tales and fables in children's literature are very attractive to children. When these stories are constantly expressed from the teacher's mouth, it will naturally establish a strong image charm for kindergarten teachers.

An excellent preschool teacher should be a child psychologist. Excellent children's literature can make teachers vividly perceive children's psychological theory and carry out teaching activities according to each child's psychological characteristics.

(C) the role of children's literature for young children

Readers of children's literature and students of preschool education are the same group to some extent. Children's literature is a vivid textbook of life, which guides children to know life, the world and the truth. Children's literature can cultivate children's thinking and imagination, and the development of thinking ability is the core of children's intellectual development.

The phenomena, things and the relationship between people and things described in children's literature can guide children to think, which plays an important role in the development of children's thinking ability. Children's literature plays an important role in the growth of young children. Children's literature can develop children's humanistic quality and contribute to children's personality development. Children's literature is beautiful.

Children are influenced by this kind of beauty since childhood, which plays a positive role in the formation of their good moral character and aesthetic ability. The rich content of children's literature works is a window for children to know the world. Children's literature plays an important role in the development of preschool education and should be paid attention to by preschool teachers.