Hello! I’m sure that you have heard the following headline on news: “Finland will stop teaching handwriting to children and they will start to teach them typing”. I have to be sincere and tell you that the first time I heard it I thought “that’s a joke and it can’t be true, how we can’t teach […]
Read MoreThinking about the topic I will write for this post, one idea came to my mind: the “choose-your-own-story” books. The real name of this kind of books are “choose-your-own-adventure” and it was published between 1979 and 1998 by Bantam Books (now is part of Random House publisher house) selling more than 250 million of books […]
Read MoreThis weekend, reading the newspaper on the Internet, I found a news that really shocks me. The headline was “Almudena Cid narra su vivencia y trayectoria deportiva en dos cuentos infantiles (Almudena Cid tells about her life experience and her sport career in two stories for children)”. The first thing I thought when I saw […]
Read MoreHello. For my third post, I choose one of my own experience related with the learning of English in early ages. When I was in my last practice time, my tutor and I had a problem: “How we can teach children to use the auxiliary verb ‘do’ in negative sentences without making the explanation boring?” […]
Read MoreWhen we saw in the seminar the video of a class doing a jazz chant, I was surprised about the “strange” letters in the room, so I want to search about what language is this and why Jazz Chants are there. Finding at home for more Jazz Chants, I discover that this language is Filipino […]
Read MoreOne of the first topics of the subject was the Synthetic Phonics method, which is a method based on learning first the sounds of the letters, and then, building the words with the sounds taught, and last year I had the chance of see how we can teach the English sounds to Spanish students. Jolly […]
Read MoreHello, I am Jaime Martínez and I am studying the 4th year of the Bilingual Primary Teacher Training Degree in Centro Universitario Cardenal Cisneros. I start writing in this blog for the subject “Exploring Children’s Literature in English” as a project made by our teacher, Raquel Fernández. The project consists on writing our own posts to show […]
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