COD 2025 - KP395

Face to face - "Storytime: a shared & relaxed experience for little Kids!"

Kindergarten and Preschool teachers, Helpers, Early Primary Grades teachers, Head teachers and Coordinators

1 sessions, start: 10-Feb

Please enrol before Wednesday, February 5th 2025

Course detail

Year: 2025
Level: Kindergarten / Primary
Language: English
Status: Confirmed
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mrs. Grace Bertolini
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 35000.00
Non affiliate
ARS 35000.00

Sessions


Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 10 February 2025 09:30 am 12:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Grace Bertolini

Grace Bertolini is an experienced EFL- ESL Teacher Educator specialized in Classroom Management, Cooperative Learning, Learning and the Brain, Social Emotional Learning, Conflict Resolution, Responsive Classrooms and Positive Education at school. Her mother tongue is Spanish and she speaks English, French, Italian and Portuguese and she has studies in Physical Education. She is a Bilingual Facilitator for Peace Education Foundation (USA) and a Certified Positive Discipline Classroom Educator for Positive Discipline Association (USA). She has got an Innovative Education Degree and a Neuro Learning Degree that has allowed her to incorporate tools for brain-compatible learning in a positive, healthy and inclusive educational environment. For more than 40 years she has taught all levels and ages and she has been Head Teacher at several bilingual schools in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At present, she delivers courses for Asociación Educar de Neurociencias and coaches several Institutions as an Educational Consultant. She has got her own Professional Development Site and Campus and she designs Courses, Workshops and E-books for Preschool, Kindergarten, Primary and High school classes and delivers Professional Development Presentations nationwide and abroad on Social Emotional Learning, Conflict Resolution, Classroom Management and teaching EFL/ESL effectively. Grace is a Life long Learner.
Kindergarten and Preschool teachers, Helpers, Early Primary Grades teachers, Head teachers and Coordinators
• Use appealing stories to practice English.
• Create an inclusive and positive classroom environment while sharing books.
• Foster a dynamic and active participation of all learners.
• Introduce a simple procedure to read a story to little kids
• Introduce Attention Getters.
• Use effective techniques to pre-teach key vocabulary and retell simple stories.
• Introduce a sample of 10-lessons Book Sharing Schedule.
• Share lively ways to compliment Storytime with useful activities to enrich lessons before, during and after reading a story.
• Design simple hand-made visual resources.
• Introduce participants to easy classroom tested lessons.
• Effective and creative ideas for using Stories with Very Young Learners.
• Why use stories activities in your class? How do I choose the right kind of story?
• Story Telling or Story Reading?
• Reading easy stories: the importance of checking comprehension.
• Quick and creative Extension Activities: Story Cubes, Story Tins, Stories in a Box, Story Necklaces, Canned Stories.
• Using Puppets, Masks, Headbands and simple costumes.
• Easy Graphic Organizers to convey meaning: Star Diagram, 5 W’s, “T” Charts, Chain of Events.
• Creating Alternative Stories, Emergent Readers and Rebus Stories.
• Making hand-made books: Storyboard Books, Flip-flop Books, Triaramas, Zig-Zag Books, Step Books, Fan Books, Circle Books.
• Books created for children: Dots Books, Theme-based Books, Photograph-based Books, Name Books, Letter Books.
• Big Books: How to make a class-created Big Book.
• Using Finger Retellings and Fortune Tellers.
• Reading One-page Story
• Using Interactive Boards to retell a story: Pocket Charts, Magnet Boards, Felt Board, Roll a Story.
• My Story Apron…my Story Vest.
• Scaffolding Techniques & assessments suggestions.
• A Storytime Area: ideas for organizing materials, book storage and a Class Book Corner.
• School-home connection: “Our Book Day”.
• A surprise: Listen and Mime a Story
During this interactive session, participants will learn how to use stories with the little ones in an effective and creative way. They will practice effective before, during and after activities that facilitate active participation of all learners.
We will share 100% practical simple tools to strengthen students’ engagement at Storytime.If you are teaching children, and would like to turn your Storytime into a shared experience of fun and relaxed time, don’t miss this session full of ideas and energy!
To be specify and shared during the session.
• Sue Williams, “I went walking”.
• Audrey Wood, “The Napping House”.
• Eric Carle, “The very hungry caterpillar”.
• Bill Martin Jr, “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see?”.
• Alexei Tolstoy, “The enormous Turnip”.
• Mary Mapes Dodge, “The little Red Hen”.
• Peter Reynolds, “The Dot”.
• David Shannon, “No David!”.
• David Shannon, “David goes to school”
• Anna Llenas, “The Colour Monster”.
• Anna Llenas, “The Colour Monster goes to school”.
• De Brett, Jan, “The Mitten”.
• Dean James, “Pete the cat: I love my white shoes”.
• Karen Beaumont, “I like myself”.
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