Time to try

Finally here we are… the last entry. For this post I would like to talk about the activity in which I have reached the highest point of the subject: The Aladdin´s workshop. During this activity I had the possibility of experiment with children what I learned during the subject. It was incredible discover how times runs […]

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Readers Theater

Hi everyone! During this post I want to talk about Readers Theater. As far as I know, most of you don’t know anything about it (because I have the advantage of belong to the seminar one). For this reason I will like to introduce you in this topic. According with Rebecca Walters (2014), the “Readers […]

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One story… two versions

Hello everyone! This is my fourth post and I would like to start expressing my gratitude for your involvement in my previous posts. For this reason I have chosen to talk about a very recurrent topic for all of my blog-partners: The truth about fairy tales. This time I am going to focus my research […]

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The creation of a class library

This week I have to do a great project: the creation of a classroom library. This task is quite complicated. The main difficulty of this task is taking into account the real economic situation. During these last years I have to do other projects but I had the possibility to create ideal situations, so this […]

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Great authors

Hello 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 […]

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Telling stories

During this week, we have been working on telling stories strategies.  I have discovered that we have different methods to work on the same story. On one hand, we can divide the characters between the students. I think this is a very motivational method because the students can feel involve in the story, and in my […]

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Welcome!

Hello everyone! My name is Carla María Calleja Rodríguez and I am studying  a bilingual degree for Primary Education  at Cardenal Cisneros University. This blog is created for the subject “Exploring Children’s literature in English” and during this term I going to post some ideas and reflections about this area. I hope you will enjoy my commentaries and […]

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