You know that storytelling is a strong resource to develop literacy among children. There are some authors of children storytelling, such as Michael Morpurgo, Anthony Browne or our well known Michael Rosen that we have seen in class. All of them are convinced that including storytelling in the life of children is helpful or very […]
Read MoreHello, little explorers. This week’s project was related to creating our very own Classroom Library. It was a tough task to do, if we wanted to make it operative, attractive and affordable. There were plenty of things to be taken into account, but I was positive about not leaving aside what could help the students […]
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 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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