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 […]
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, 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 […]
Read MoreIt 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 […]
Read MoreHave 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 […]
Read MoreGood 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 […]
Read MoreHi 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 […]
Read MoreHello classmates!! In this post I am going to talk about the activity we carried out the last Monday at class. This one was related to a previous one in which we had to learn by heart one specific poem and then record ourselves by performing it. Therefore, the activity we did at class was […]
Read MoreHi 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 […]
Read MoreHi 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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