The best perfumes come in small bottles

Throughout  the subject Children’s Literature in English, we are getting closer to infant literature. Concretely, during these last weeks, we took interest to nursery rhymes, chants, finger plays, the art of storytelling, infant English authors… If we think about the hidden objective of these kind of activities, this could be to learn the different techniques […]

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The classroom library

Hi! In this new post I am going to talk about an activity we have been doing during this week. The activity is called “Creating your classroom library”. At the first moment we thought that it was a wonderful idea to have an English library inside your room, what it´s true, but it not as […]

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READING MAP ACTIVITY

Hi, today I’m writing about an activity that we did last week and I consider it as a great activity that can have loads of possibilities. The activity is called “Create your reading map”. It consists in creating a drawing by using your imagination in order to transmit an idea or a story. In class, […]

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The Irish Quixote

Hi! After accomplishing the activity based on the choice of a writer as the best children’s literature author/a (for what we had to do some research about their lives and works), I reached to the conclusion that this was a much more motivating way to involve children in literature/reading, than by simply reading a book. […]

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Deeper in the museum…

Hello everyone! In this third post I am going to talk about the activity of the museum and the ones that preceded it. Again! Another activity of our wide variety of resources to use as future teachers. Before this activity, we had to answer some questions of our reading life to our partners, as an […]

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RUINING YOUR CHILDHOOD IN 3, 2, 1… The original stories behind the tales we know

Once 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, […]

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Beatrix Potter, a Great Author!

What books can be interesting for our future children or students? Which authors may be more suitable for them? Today I present to you one of those authors: Beatrix Potter. Beatrix Potter was born in London, UK in 1866 and died on 1943. She was a writer, a fabulist, an Illustrator (she made all the […]

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Mr. Do exists!

Hello. For my third post, I choose one of my own experience related with the learning of English in early ages. When I was in my last practice time, my tutor and I had a problem: “How we can teach children to use the auxiliary verb ‘do’ in negative sentences without making the explanation boring?” […]

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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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