USE IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE TEACHING OF GEOGRAPHY IN THE EARLY YEARS

This paper proposes a discussion on the use of children's literature as a strategy for the development of different educational activities to teach Geography. Presents a project developed a class of pedagogy in the discipline of Methodological Foundations of Teaching Geography which sought to highlight how this kind of literature can be used as a methodological strategy in the classroom of kindergarten and in the early years, with the aim of contributing to construction of learning of geographical science. Highlights the importance of literacy and Geographic literacy in the early years and early childhood education. Discusses the importance of learning Geography in the early years of primary school, which is often taught in a disconnected way of life of the students and does not use largely the conceptual apparatus that science. We understand that the role of geography in the early years should be to develop skills that are meaningful to the child know the space you live in and provide support for apprehension of landscape and expand the notion of space.