Hi lovely readers!! During the last Medium group session, we worked on the last literary genre: drama. The lesson was especially focused on learning different ways of promoting drama skills, as well as other competences and abilities, in educative contexts through active group games. Instead of carrying out the lesson inside the classroom, our teacher […]
Read MoreHello 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 […]
Read MoreHello everyone!! Nice to meet you here one week more! As you may have noticed because of the topics the majority of the last posts were about, these two last weeks we have been working on one of the most important elements and resources in Children’s Literature: tales. According to Wikipedia, tales are “generally short […]
Read MoreOnce upon a time, the marvelous and beautiful children tales that have filled our imagination with fantastic and charming stories and characters when we were little (Cinderella, Pinochio or Snow White…) were full of violence, darkness, misfortune, cruelty and evilness. Those horrific stories were originally passed on orally from generation to generation until some writers, […]
Read MoreLast week I attended my first seminar lesson, in which we shared our personal experiences in reading, since the very beginning we started to meet letters until today. In my case, one of my favourite films (those that we watch and watch thousand times), the book lover Matilda, was a really strong influence in my […]
Read MoreLiteracy necessarily involves the ability of knowing, recognizing and making the sounds of letters -phonemes -, and the way they are represented –graphemes-. The teaching of both phonemes and graphemes is basic for teaching reading and writing, and it represents one of the biggest challenges to which past, present and future teachers, especially the ones […]
Read MoreHello everyone! My name is Rocío Hidalgo and I am a 4th Year Primary Education Degree Student (Bilingual option) at Centro Universitario Cardenal Cisneros, coursing the English specialization. As you can read in the other “Welcome” posts written by my classmates, this blog is a project for the subject “Exploring Children’s literature in English”; in which we are […]
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