Hi everybody and welcome to my second post! During this post I would like to tell you about an activity we did this week about some of the most manful authors in the area of the children’s literature. In this activity we made groups of three people approximately and each group had an author allocated. […]
Read MoreHello guys! This time I want to write about Jazz Chants. The other day we saw in class what Jazz Chants was and it was very surprising for me because I have never heard about it and I could see that it was so easy to create a Jazz Chant. A Jazz Chanting is a […]
Read MoreHello everyone! I couldn’t have access to the blog until this week so this is my first post related with the first week of class. My first post it is about reading when we were kids. May be, nowadays most of you don’t remember or don’t have lot of memories related with reading when you […]
Read MoreHello again mates! Today I want to talk about the class when we presented our authors (the famous writers of children’s books). When we read a book, we normally know only things about the book, I mean, after reading them we know the story with an introduction a main body and a final (that can […]
Read MoreResearching about this great author helped me understand why he wrote certain stories. I had no idea that Dr.Seuss wrote the story of “How the grinch stole christmas”. The stories undertones are especially important to study with the students in the classroom. We should try to transmit to our students that Christmas is not an opportunity to simply […]
Read MoreThis week, we had the opportunity to introduce, and be introduced, to some of the most relevant authors related to Children’s Literature in English. For our teacher, there were different ways to do it, including from handing us the most rigurous classnotes including hundreds of data impossible to memorize, to making us take an active […]
Read MoreDuring the seminar this week, we talked about our reading experience and the teacher told us to draw a reading life on a map. Some of my partners read a lot since they were children but some of them don’t like reading so much or they just read comics when they were young and now […]
Read MoreHello readers! This is my second blogpost and I have to recognize that is actually tougher than planned to choose a great writing topic. But as I was thinking on great ideas I am going to elaborate on top notch children´s literature writers. During this week I was investigating with my peers about what makes […]
Read MoreDo you know what are jazz chants ? Jazz chants are not much well-known but are veru useful. I am going to tell more about them. Jazz chants are created by Carolyn Graham. She is a musician and a teacher. She lives in New York city and a jazz fan so one day she decided to […]
Read MoreExperts in Children’s literature: Maurice Sendak Hello everyone, this week I’m writing about a new activity that we have developed during this week. We can call this activity as Groups of Experts in Children’s literature. To complete the activity, first we have to form small groups, and then the teacher gave to each group the […]
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