COD 2014 - P161

Working with Literature in Primary School – A multimodal Approach

Primary school teachers

2 sessions, start: 08-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2014
Level: Primary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mag. Griselda Beacon MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 480.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 08 August 2014 05:30 am 08:30 am
2 22 August 2014 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Griselda Beacon

Griselda Beacon is a teacher educator and specializes in literature & art in English. Her approach follows pedagogies of creativity and of inclusion. Griselda 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, 2019), an English coursebook series tailor-made for Argentina and co-editor of the books International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT (Palgrave, 2021) and Queer Studies in English Language Education (Brill, 2025).

Griselda has taught Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Creativity, Drama Techniques and Play, Music, Dance & Literature in Pre-Primary Education at Teacher Training Colleges in Buenos Aires. At present, she works as a consultant for educational institutions, lectures in American Literature at Universidad de Buenos Aires –UBA and is a consultant trainer at NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) in the UK. Passionate about art in education, Griselda shares literature with a creative twist with all learners and visits schools for storytelling sessions.
Primary school teachers
• See the benefits of working with literary texts with children: a source of enjoyment, language development and physical involvement from a multimodal approach that helps children to boost their imagination and creativity and to appropriate the foreign language through a variety of activities that integrate different artistic disciplines.

• Think and plan a variety of related activities to work with literary texts in a multimodal approach that combines photography, film, creative writing, games, interactive reading, reciting, performing, multimedia projects, music, dancing & arts & crafts.
We are going to read and work with both traditional stories, poems, rhymes & popular songs and texts written by contemporary children`s literature writers such as Tony Mitton, Ian Mcmillan, Benjamin Zephaniah, Ewin Morgan, Leo Lionni, Eric Carl, Kevin Henkes, Julia Donaldson, Anthony Browne, among others.
Workshop: A hands-on approach to teaching literature in the classroom in which participants will discuss and apply concepts, brainstorm creative teaching ideas, develop supporting teaching materials and carry out some of the activities in class.
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- Lazar, G. (2005) Literature and Language Teaching. Cambridge: CUP.
- Maley, A. (1994) Short and Sweet. Short Texts and How to Use Them. Londres: Penguin.
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- Pope, R. (1995) Textual Intervention. Critical and Creative Strategies for Literary Studies. Londres: Routledge.
- Worthy, J. (2005) Readers Theater for Building Fluency. New York: Teaching Resources.
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