COD 2018 - P232

Working with Literature in Primary School: A Bodily Experience

Primary school teachers

1 sessions, start: 15-Mar

Course detail

Year: 2018
Level: Primary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mag. Griselda Beacon MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 500.00
Non affiliate
ARS 500.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 15 March 2018 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 school teachers
Read, tell and perform literary texts with children to help them develop language awareness and appropriation.

Help children develop their imagination, creative and critical thinking skills.

Think, plan and carry out a variety of performative tasks and games to work with literature in the classroom.
The workshop explores the possibilities literature offers 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 texts 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 reading material for our session includes:

*A selection of poems
*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)
*Today I Will Fly (2012) Mo Willems (author & illustrator)
*There Is a Bird on Your Head (2013) Mo Willems (author & illustrator)
*Pet The Cat: I Love My White Shoes. (1999) Eric Litwin (Author) & James Dean (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)
*Monkey Puzzle (2000) Julia Donaldson (author) & Axel Scheffler (Illustrator)
*Do You Want to Be My Friend? (1971) Eric Carle (author & illustrator)
*The Big Orange Splot (1977) Daniel Manus Pinkwater (author & illustrator)
*There´s a Bear on My Chair (2015) Ross Collins (author & illustrator)
*Atchoo! ([2014 Tchoum!, France] 2015) Virginie Morgand. (author & illustrator) English Translation by Rae Walter.
*OI DOG! (2016) Kes & Claire Gray (Authors) & Jim Field (Illustrator)
*OI FROG! (2014) Kes Gray (Author) & Jim Field (Illustrator)
The workshop has a dialogical and interactive approach. Participants will discuss and apply concepts, work with children´s literary texts, brainstorm creative teaching ideas, develop supporting teaching materials and carry out the tasks in groups.
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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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