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, I´m Jaime and this week I´m writing about two activities that we have done during the two previous weeks. The first one is called Aladdin´s workshop. It consisted in creating an activity related with Aladdin´s Disney film for children of 4th of primary in small groups. Nevertheless, what make this activity special is that […]
Read MoreHi everyone have you ever had a personalized books, telling a story with you as main character, I have always wish to have one. Last year I made one for my little cousin it was handmade, I think it was a very good present for him because he could always read his story and he […]
Read MoreHello, I´m Jaime and today I´m writing about the class of this week. Before starting the description of the activities we did during that class, I have to say as an introduction that during the previous weeks we have seen loads of different ways about how to include poetry in classrooms. On Monday, our teacher […]
Read MoreLast Monday, in our seminar class, we were working with fairytales characters and we received a very interesting proposal: to create a fairytale character. Everything we want, the characteristics we want, the appearance, the powers, the gender or the personality. Our weapon is our imagination and our words. But maybe, to create a character is […]
Read MoreToday I want to comment what ma mates did, latest weeks we have seen several presentations, made by all of you, about different english authors that wrote different stories for little children. You made great presentations to introduce your different authors and each works and contributions. Most of the presented authors work not only in […]
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 […]
Read MoreLiteracy necessarily involves the ability of knowing, recognizing and making the sounds of letters -phonemes -, and the way they are represented –graphemes-. The teaching of both phonemes and graphemes is basic for teaching reading and writing, and it represents one of the biggest challenges to which past, present and future teachers, especially the ones […]
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