COD 2017 - P211

"Reading Stories in Primary School: A Bodily Experience”

Primary Teachers

1 sessions, start: 13-Mar

Course detail

Year: 2017
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 400.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 13 March 2017 05:30 pm 08:30 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.
Primary Teachers
- Read, tell and perform stories with children to help them develop language awareness and appropriation.

- Help children develop their creative and critical thinking skills

- Think, plan and carry out a variety of related activities to work with stories in the classroom: games, interactive reading, performing, etc.
The workshop explores the possibilities stories offer to help children develop language awareness and appropriation through activities that involve bodies in motion. A number of highly interactive and collaborative games will provide the space for exploration and discovery. In our session, we will work with contemporary children´s books and carry out different activities that will challenge our own creativity. Be ready to engage in tasks that will put you to work actively in collaborative contexts.

The children´s book selection for our session includes:

- There are No Cats in This Book (2010) Viviane Schwarz (author & illustrator)

- Silly Billy (2006) Anthony Browne (author & illustrator)

- Little Beauty (2010) Anthony Browne (author & illustrator)

- This is Not My Hat (2012) Jon Klassen (author & illustrator)

- This Book Just Ate My Dog (2014) Richard Byrne (author & illustrator)

- Don´t Let the Pigeon Drive The Bus! (2003) Mo Willems (author & illustrator)

- Don't Read This Book! (2010) Jill Lewis (author) & Deborah Allwright (illustrator)

- Interrupting Chicken (2011) David Ezra Stein (author & illustrator)

- The Smartest Giant in Town (2003) Julia Donaldson (author) & Axel Scheffler (Illustrator)

- Room on a Broom (2003) Julia Donaldson (author) & Axel Scheffler (Illustrator)

- We are going on a Bear Hunt (1989) Michael Rosen (author) & Helen Oxenbury (Illustrator)

- Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Traditional story)

- The Gruffalo (1999) Julia Donaldson (author) & Axel Scheffler (Illustrator)

- The Gruffalo´s Child (2004) Julia Donaldson (author) & Axel Scheffler (Illustrator)
Workshop: Dialogical and interactive approach in which participants will discuss and apply concepts, brainstorm creative teaching ideas, develop supporting teaching materials and carry out the tasks in groups.
Egan, Kieran. (2005) An Imaginative Approach to Teaching. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass
Grondona White, Cristina y Graciela Moyano. (2004) Storytelling in the EFL Classroom. Words on Words – UK Literature for children and teenagers. British Council Argentina
Lazar, Gillian. (2005) Literature and Language Teaching. Cambridge: CUP.
Maley, Alan. (1994) Short and Sweet. Short Texts and How to Use Them. Londres: Penguin
McRae, John. (1991) Literature with a Small “l”. Londres: Macmillan
Pope, Rob. (1995) Textual Intervention. Critical and Creative Strategies for Literary Studies. Londres: Routledge
Worthy, Jo. (2005) Readers Theater for Building Fluency. New York: Teaching Resources
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