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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English Literature in the P.E. Lesson

Hi everyone! Today we, Azu Rodríguez and alicia.lopez, would like to share with you an experience that we carried out two days ago, which we consider could be useful for you (especially for those of you who could not come to our lesson). Although for some people it might sound a little bit strange, we […]

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One story… two versions

Hello everyone! This is my fourth post and I would like to start expressing my gratitude for your involvement in my previous posts. For this reason I have chosen to talk about a very recurrent topic for all of my blog-partners: The truth about fairy tales. This time I am going to focus my research […]

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7 tips to create a fairytale character

Last Monday, in our seminar class, we were working with fairytales characters and we received a very interesting proposal: to create a fairytale character. Everything we want, the characteristics we want, the appearance, the powers, the gender or the personality. Our weapon is our imagination and our words. But maybe, to create a character is […]

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Creating books!

Today I want to comment what ma mates did, latest weeks we have seen several presentations, made by all of you, about different english authors that wrote different stories for little children. You made great presentations to introduce your different authors and each works and contributions. Most of the presented authors work not only in […]

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The creation of a class library

This week I have to do a great project: the creation of a classroom library. This task is quite complicated. The main difficulty of this task is taking into account the real economic situation. During these last years I have to do other projects but I had the possibility to create ideal situations, so this […]

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Going beyond the names. Great authors, great discoveries.

This week, we had the opportunity to introduce, and be introduced, to some of the most relevant authors related to Children’s Literature in English. For our teacher, there were different ways to do it, including from handing us the most rigurous classnotes including hundreds of data impossible to memorize, to making us take an active […]

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Improving Chocolate Cake Story

How to improve storytelling: During the previous weeks we have been dealing with storytelling activities for children in class. First, we took some videos of Michael Rosen, who is an English children’s novelist, as a good example of storytelling. Then we analyze curiously the characteristics that made Rosen´s stories catchy for children and even for […]

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Telling stories

During this week, we have been working on telling stories strategies.  I have discovered that we have different methods to work on the same story. On one hand, we can divide the characters between the students. I think this is a very motivational method because the students can feel involve in the story, and in my […]

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