Comentarios en: 7 tips to create a fairytale character http://blogs.cardenalcisneros.es/childrenslit/2014/11/07/7-tips-to-create-a-fairytale-character/ Otro sitio realizado con WordPress Sat, 11 Feb 2017 01:24:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.25 Por: lidia.garciad http://blogs.cardenalcisneros.es/childrenslit/2014/11/07/7-tips-to-create-a-fairytale-character/#comment-1032 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 17:00:52 +0000 http://blogs.cardenalcisneros.es/childrenslit/?p=607#comment-1032 Thank you for commenting my post Carol! First of all I would like to say that I wrote this post thinking about how people, in general, can create a character.
Following with your question: how can we do this with children? I have to say that I liked a lot your proposals. I thought that we could also let students make their characters; I mean to create them physically like a sculpture so we could link this activity with arts too.
But what I like the most of writing is the imagination fact, everything can be possible and I think we have to give students some freedom when they are writing, for example a character, to let them express.

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Por: Carolina Buil http://blogs.cardenalcisneros.es/childrenslit/2014/11/07/7-tips-to-create-a-fairytale-character/#comment-825 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:31:45 +0000 http://blogs.cardenalcisneros.es/childrenslit/?p=607#comment-825 Hi Lidia!

I like so much your post because you offer us some clues to create our own characters.
In my opinion, we should take into account all of these aspects if we want to create a new character.
But…what about the students? Do you think all these aspects are enough for them?
I think that If we would want the students to create their own character, we should provide them with some language scaffolding. We could give them some adjectives related to appearance and personality, some grammar structures to describe people, animals,etc.
Maybe, another option could be giving them one example of our own character. That way, our students can have a template of the task they have to do.
Once children have their own characters, we should do something with them. What do you think Lidia? Which kind of activities can we carry out?
I purpose some:
– We can collect all of them and carrying the imagination museum (the same that we did with the reading map) and our students can vote for the most amazing one. Furthermore, they can talk in English, of course, with their peers and make them questions about their drawings and creations.
– Another one, could be a little performance: we can organize our students in groups. Then they have to share their characters with their partners and create a little story in which all of them will be involved. That way, we will promote the communication between them, develop their creativity and also we will work on HOTS (High Order Thinking Skills).

In conclusion, working with characters offers a wide range of activities that we can carry out in our classrooms. Furthermore, it gives us the opportunity to work on multiple intelligences and the development of creativity.

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