Hello everyone! I hope you enjoy my post and make you reflect! Reading is a very important aspect of our lives, it is a source of wisdom where people can walk through different paths and discover a lot of new things. It is said that reading is living a parallel life, in which you can […]
Read MoreAlong this week we have been working in class with many reading resources for literature that we can use in our future career as English/ bilingual teachers: Jazz chants, finger plays, storytelling, us as readers (reading map)… And I would like to talk about this issue because when I was in the library and […]
Read MoreHow 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 […]
Read MoreDuring 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 […]
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 […]
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