COD 2025 - D1126

Webinar - Criteria to Select Picturebooks

Kindergarten and Primary teachers

1 sessions, start: 03-Jun

Please enrol before Thursday, May 29th 2025

Course detail

Year: 2025
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Confirmed
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Mag. Griselda Beacon MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 30000.00
Non affiliate
ARS 30000.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 03 June 2025 05:30 pm 07:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Griselda Beacon

Griselda Beacon is a teacher educator and specializes in literature & art in ELT. Her interests include literature, young learners, CLIL, creativity and critical interculturality. Passionate about art in education, Griselda carries out projects with literature, storytelling, drama, visual arts and creative writing to foster self-expression and creativity in diverse and inclusive English language classrooms. She holds an MA in Literature and Foreign Language Teaching from Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, and has been working in the field of teacher education and Primary curriculum development for over 20 years. She has been sharing her experience as an in-service teacher trainer and curriculum developer in Latin America, Europe, Africa & Asia. She is a co-author of Together (Oxford UP, 2018), an English coursebook series tailor-made for Argentina and co-editor of the book International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT (Palgrave, 2021). Griselda has taught Children’s & Young Adult Literature, Creativity, Drama Techniques in the English Class and Play, Music, Dance & Literature in Pre-Primary Education at Teacher Training Colleges in Buenos Aires. She regularly works as a consultant for educational institutions, such as language schools (NILE - Norwich Institute for Language Education) in the UK, ELT publishers (Oxford University Press) & libraries. At present, she lectures in American Literature at Universidad de Buenos Aires –UBA. In her spare time, Griselda loves dancing, getting lost in bookstores and taking drama classes.
Kindergarten and Primary teachers
Explore different picturebooks and pay attention to the architecture of the book, such as their structural design elements-layout, typography, integration of images and text to understand how these components contribute to storytelling and reader engagement.

Observe diverse elements which are relevant for the overall reading experience: interactive features, sensory elements, balance between visual and verbal narratives, to gain appreciation of the complexities involved in picturebook design and their impact on young learners.
In this workshop, we will explore, discuss, and analyse a variety of picturebooks to teach English to very young learners. We will examine the diverse elements that interact in the composition of picturebooks, including their multimodal nature, the interplay between text and illustrations, and the cultural representations they convey, their aesthetic proposal, community-based values and language level and quality. By examining these aspects, teachers will gain insights into selecting and utilising picturebooks that not only teach language but also enrich the holistic development of young learners.

We will choose from a selection of picturebooks written by Colin McNaughton, Mo Willems, Ed Vere, Anthony Browne, Leo Lionni, Eric Carle, Lucy Cousins, Todd Parr, HervéTullet, Michael Rosen, VirginieMorgand, TomiUngerer, Judith Kerr, N. Bryon & D. Adeola, Yasmeen Ismail, Jon Classen, Carlson Ellis, C. Naylor-Ballesteros, Kevin Henkes, Peter Reynolds, Chris Raschka, Ed Emberley, Maurice Sendak, Julia Donaldson, Oliver Jeffers, Lisa Mantchev, among others.
Workshop: The sessions will have a dialogical and interactive approach in which participants will discuss and apply concepts, brainstorm creative teaching ideas, develop supporting teaching materials and carry out tasks in groups.
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