Exploring children's literature in english » personal experiences http://blogs.cardenalcisneros.es/childrenslit Otro sitio realizado con WordPress Sun, 14 Dec 2014 11:58:41 +0000 es-ES hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.25 “I want to be like Matilda!”. Activities for the promotion of reading. http://blogs.cardenalcisneros.es/childrenslit/2014/10/11/i-want-to-be-like-matilda-activities-for-the-promotion-of-reading/ http://blogs.cardenalcisneros.es/childrenslit/2014/10/11/i-want-to-be-like-matilda-activities-for-the-promotion-of-reading/#comments Sat, 11 Oct 2014 20:11:29 +0000 http://blogs.cardenalcisneros.es/childrenslit/?p=328 Last week I attended my first seminar lesson, in which we shared our personal experiences in reading, since the very beginning we started to meet letters until today. In my case, one of my favourite films (those that we watch and watch thousand times), the book lover Matilda, was a really strong influence in my promotion of reading. I remember one sequence of the film in which she is going to the library and takes lots of books in a wheelbarrow for reading them at home. Since the first time I watched that, I decided that I wanted to be like her and have hundreds and hundreds of books surrounding me; and I was so lucky, because my mother also loves reading, and she bought me many books and decided to take me to the library twice a week: on Wednesday, to choose a book and read it there; and on Saturday, to play games that some monitors prepared to work on the promotion of reading.

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 As I am sure that, as current and future teachers, we should encourage our students and kids to read and show them how many benefits reading has, I would like to share with you the two activities we carried out at the library that I liked the most and I believe that they were useful on promoting us to read:

On the one hand, the “Making a story up”, an activity that consisted on playing in groups with different labels (in my case, ten labels, but in depends on the age and number of kids) with single words. We had to discuss about them to create a story in which those words were all included and produce our own book by writing the story on big cardboards and decorating them with drawings that represented the situations described. Then, the books were kept on a special shelf on the library to let everyone read them. I loved that activity, as the process of making the stories up was really fun, the stories were really interesting due to the imagination we have when we are kids, and they promoted not just reading, but creativity, working in groups and other social abilities, linguistic and artistic skills, and furthermore the satisfaction of having your own book “published” and read by other people.

On the other hand, and related to some posts written two weeks ago, “The storytelling theatre”. In this game, each monitor was in charge of one group of kids who were going to become storytellers and represent their corresponding story, using puppets, in a little theatre, in which we were hidden behind. For that, the monitor chose who was going to be each character and we read the story all together, each kid their lines, and practising with the puppets. Finally, the stories were represented in the little theatre, so that we became storytellers but also enjoyed the other stories.

I hope you find those activities interesting, and it would be great if you are encouraged to share your own personal experiences in reading or interesting activities you know for the promotion of reading.

Thank you for your visit! :)

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