Create a character

In this post I would like to talk about the importance of create a good character in literature. Today, in class, the group four have had the seminar hour. In this time we have been working on the different kinds of character in fairy tales and trying to find some of them in stories that […]

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Teaching elementary Poetry with a Word Scramble

Hello guys! Today I am writing to you in order to share a magnificent activity to work on poetry in the classroom. As we all know, poetry is the great benefit as it fosters Social and Emotional learning. The students put in practice their imagination to express themselves working with grammar and language itself. It […]

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THE POETRY DAY

THE POETRY DAY Hi, Today I’m going to write a post about what we did during the middle group class on Monday. The topic of the class was poetry and the different ways to take advantage of it. The class can be divided in different parts: In the first part, the teacher gave us some […]

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Fairytales and health

G’Day everyone! This is my fourth post, and I would like to explore a little bit the emotional outcomes of reading and writing fairytales and other stories in the classroom. Fairytales are usually seen as something innocent, created for children by adults, with the only aim of being amusing. Sometimes, we try and go deeper […]

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How to be a good poetry performance!

Hello everyone! In my fourth post I want to write about poetry because I am sure that almost until now, most of us didn’t think so much about it. First of all, I want to start with a question: do you think that it is possible be a good poetry performance? Well, in my case, […]

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Improve reading comprehension in the English Classroom

This week I’m reading ‘Literature in Language Education’ a book written by Geoff Hall, an assistant editor of Language and Literature who talks about the practical guidance on how literature might be carried out in the classroom. It is being an inspirational book which is giving me more ideas and it makes me reflect on […]

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The best Spanish gymnast and the storytelling

This 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 […]

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Is “Nicolás has two dads” inappropriate?

Hi everyone, today I would like to share with you a really interesting article I read about the book “Nicolás tiene dos papás”. Yesterday I read an article at the page of “Anatarambana literatura infantil” about a book that last days was a cause of lots of controversies, the book is “Nicolás tiene dos papás” […]

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