Hello everyone, I hope you all had a good weekend! Today I am going to write my first post for this blog and I have decided to do it about storytelling. I think we all have read some books since we were very young, but have we thought about its importance? In this week, we […]
Read MoreToday I would like to talk a bit about storytelling. Last week we saw a couple of videos of Michael Rosen, in which he appears telling a story about a chocolate cake and a Bear Hunt. I really enjoyed watching those videos; I think it was really funny for me and the rest of 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, I hope all of you are having a great weekend! This is going to be my first post and I thought it will be interesting to write about my experience using jolly phonics in the private English classes I give to my little students from the second term of Primary education in San […]
Read MoreHello everybody! Welcome to my first post! Some days ago with Raquel, we were working on our memories about how we learnt or started reading, which books were important for us in our lives, which didn’t and why. It was an ‘emotive’ and great lesson, I enjoyed it a lot and for this reason I […]
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 MoreAlong 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 […]
Read MoreHello everybody! Welcome to our blog of the subject Exploring Children’s Literature. My name is Lidia García and I’m studying Teaching Bilingual Degree at Centro Universitario Cardenal Cisneros. This blog was made by our teacher, Raquel Fernández, with the objective to comment and post everything related with the subject. It can be our personal opinion […]
Read MoreThe other day in class “Exploring children’s literature in English” we were working on Nursery Rhymes. An example for those who do not be sure about what a Nursery Rhyme is, I am going to put one that I know you sure know: “Sal Solecito” Sal solecito caliéntame un poquito. Por hoy, por mañana, […]
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