How time flies… It seem yesterday when we started this subject but well we have to quip in mind that all the things we have learn we will put into practice by using the materials and websites we have created and we have visited during this term. For my last post I would like to […]
Read MoreHello everybody! This week we are writing our last post. We have already full this blog with a huge amount of resources related to English literature that could be perfectly used with our future students. Because of that, I wanted to summarise them and at the same time try to reflect on them and the […]
Read MoreYou know that storytelling is a strong resource to develop literacy among children. There are some authors of children storytelling, such as Michael Morpurgo, Anthony Browne or our well known Michael Rosen that we have seen in class. All of them are convinced that including storytelling in the life of children is helpful or very […]
Read MoreThis weekend, reading the newspaper on the Internet, I found a news that really shocks me. The headline was “Almudena Cid narra su vivencia y trayectoria deportiva en dos cuentos infantiles (Almudena Cid tells about her life experience and her sport career in two stories for children)”. The first thing I thought when I saw […]
Read MoreHi everyone! Today we, Azu Rodríguez and alicia.lopez, would like to share with you an experience that we carried out two days ago, which we consider could be useful for you (especially for those of you who could not come to our lesson). Although for some people it might sound a little bit strange, we […]
Read MoreThroughout the subject Children’s Literature in English, we are getting closer to infant literature. Concretely, during these last weeks, we took interest to nursery rhymes, chants, finger plays, the art of storytelling, infant English authors… If we think about the hidden objective of these kind of activities, this could be to learn the different techniques […]
Read MoreLast week, we were working on Great Authors presentation. We had to introduce our author to the audience. Although, we should follow a defined structure, each group was able to introduce his own author in a really personal way. There were customs, videos, music, books, etc., that were associated with them. Definitively, the whole group […]
Read MoreLast week I attended my first seminar lesson, in which we shared our personal experiences in reading, since the very beginning we started to meet letters until today. In my case, one of my favourite films (those that we watch and watch thousand times), the book lover Matilda, was a really strong influence in my […]
Read MoreHi everyone! I’m Paula Ortega Martínez and this is my first post. This week in class we have had the seminar in which we have been talking about our experiences with storytelling and books, that we have read when we were little, so this has inspired me to tell you a little bit of my […]
Read MoreHow to improve storytelling: During the previous weeks we have been dealing with storytelling activities for children in class. First, we took some videos of Michael Rosen, who is an English children’s novelist, as a good example of storytelling. Then we analyze curiously the characteristics that made Rosen´s stories catchy for children and even for […]
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