Reading developing skills.

Hi everybody! How was the weekend? We are going to start an interesting week where we are going to have the opportunity to work with children, because we know very well look like children but in my opinion could be more interesting to work with real children, and also because in this four years of […]

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Reading Failure

Hi everyone!! I have been thinking few weeks ago about the reason of why the children have problems to read books, I mean, why the children don’t like to read. As future teachers we have to think about this problem because, we should try to motivate all the students, and also how to react when […]

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Storytelling and new technologies

You 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 […]

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Aladdin’s workshop and the cultural secrets of Arabia

Hello once again! Nice to be here one week more! Today I am going to share with you the last project we are carrying out, the Aladdin’s workshop; and particularly, the workshop my group and I are preparing: Discovering the cultural secrets of Arabia. During the last two weeks, we have been preparing a workshop […]

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The Continuity of Activities

Hello, 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 […]

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A great publication. The Poetry Toolkit

It is especially remarkable the love-hate relationship that some students have with poetry. That is, in general terms, we like to talk about feelings and emotions, and it is great to read about this in literary texts such as poems. However, it is not so good for some of us to study these compositions. From […]

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Do you know Micro Theaters?

Have you ever been in a theater? How many times? Do you like theater or musicals? Well, if most of your answers are “yes”, you need to continue reading this post. As most of you, I started going to theaters when I was in the school. The school always promoted some outings to the theater […]

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Poems into Songs

Good morning everyone! I suppose that when you were a child, you used to listen the music that your parents or old brothers or sisters listened to, don´t you? And then you singed aloud at home without understand almost any word that you were saying. In my case, my father is a big fan of […]

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Books are better than Films is OVER

Hi everyone! This week I would like to devote my entry to two things I am passionate about, books and films. The idea of doing it came to my mind when Raquel, as my peer Yolanda mentioned in her last post, introduced us to our next literary project through book-based films. So, let’s start! Although […]

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Aladdin´s market

Hello everyone!!! I hope you liked my last post. In this post I want to talk about the workshop that we have to do this tuesday about the Alladin´s world. My groupmates and I will create a market shop to make the students think about all the food that we can get in a market […]

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