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What do Marshak’s works teach for preschool children, a list
The talented children’s writer Samuil Marshak was also a literary critic, translator and playwright. Marshak’s works for children are filled with vivid, memorable images.
Samuel was born into a Jewish family in November 1887. His parents were ordinary people – his mother was engaged in housekeeping, and his father worked as a foreman at a factory. The boy grew up inquisitive and hardworking. He graduated from the Ostrogozhskaya gymnasium, and then from Petersburg and Yalta. He was educated abroad in London.
Marshak’s works for children are liked at different ages
Young Marshak lived for two years at the Yalta dacha with Maxim Gorky, and in 1906 he moved to St. Petersburg. He became a journalist for several print publications, traveled to the Middle East, wrote his best works. The first collection of poems was called “Zionids”, it was published in 1907.
In 1912, the writer got married. He lived with his wife abroad, in England, studying local folklore, returned to Russia in 1914. After the October Revolution, the writer created the first children’s theater and wrote plays for it himself. Marshak published a magazine for children, and during the war he helped build kindergartens and boarding schools. The author wrote children’s works already in adulthood. He lived a long, dignified life, and died at the age of 76, and his work lives on and pleases new generations of kids.
What Marshak’s works teach for preschool children, a short list
S. Ya. Marshak wrote 32 children’s fairy tales, including works in poetry and prose, one play – “Twelve Months”. Children are happy to read humorous poems of the writer – “That’s how absent-minded” and “Mister Twister”. Children’s cartoons were shot based on the author’s works:
- Cat house;
- Teremok;
- About the goat;
- Poodle;
- That’s how absent-minded;
- The tale of the stupid mouse;
- Miracles in the sieve, etc.
Marshak has many small children’s poems that cover the experience of children’s life in all its manifestations. An interesting ABC in verses and pictures, written by the author for kids, helps them learn letters and remember funny poems.
In children’s works, the author unobtrusively, sometimes with humor, teaches children to distinguish between good and evil, to sympathize, to help those who are weaker. He makes fun of human failings and fosters love for the homeland.
It is useful for children to read poems and fairy tales by S. Ya. Marshak. They develop thinking, imagination and emotional sensitivity, help in moral education.