Resources everywhere, not more boring text books!

Hello everybody! This week we are writing our last post. We have already full this blog with a huge amount of resources related to English literature that could be perfectly used with our future students. Because of that, I wanted to summarise them and at the same time try to reflect on them and the […]

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POETESS BY SURPRISE

Hi everyone! If you read my last post two weeks ago, you will remember that I was talking about poetry. In short I wanted to transmit the idea of poetry as a cross-curricular activity which can be used in other subject with different purposes. However, as most of the times, during the last middle group […]

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Poetry in science class

Hello everyone! I am here again, this time to talk about this “awful” word poetry that we often relate to high school, hidden meanings and lists of names and more names to remember about famous authors of our literature. On Monday during the middle group we have been working with poetry in class. I am […]

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Do you know Bruno Bettelheim?

Hello everyone! This time I would like to introduce you Bruno Bettelheim. I am sure all of you remember the story of “Cinderella”, unless those who were in class at the practice time from last week should.  During this class we were analysing several variants of “Cinderella” and we could realise of their differences according […]

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READING FOR OBLIGATION IS NOT FUN!

This time I would like to share with you a general impression I had when talking about our reading experiences during the seminar time. This class was devoted to reflections on our reading experiences since we had our first book contact until now. First of all we were talking in small groups about those things […]

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FOR OR AGAINST SYNTHETIC PHONICS METHOD?

Along the previous week we have been talking about the synthetic phonics method for teaching reading, spelling and writing in the English language. Searching for information on the internet I have become familiar with Debbie Hepplewhite. This woman is a synthetic phonics expert who thinks that this method is the most effective one for teaching […]

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HI EVERYONE

My name is Susana Garaboa. I am coursing the subject “Exploring Children’s Literature in English” lectured by Prof. Dr. Raquel Fernández at Centro Universitario Cardenal Cisneros. During this term I am going to comment on this blog about several things such as issues that we are discussing in class, my own researches about some of […]

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