COD 2018 - P239

The Pedagogical Potential of the Literary Text in the EFL Classroom

Primary school teachers

1 sessions, start: 02-Jun

Course detail

Year: 2018
Level: Primary
Language: English
Status: Postponed
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 02 June 2018 09:00 am 12:00 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.
Primary school teachers
Discuss the pedagogical frame and strategies used to include literary texts in our planning (flow, play, XXIst Century Skills).

Notice and analyze the potential teaching points of a literary text in helping to develop content, grammar and phonological awareness, as well as imagination, creative and critical thinking skills.

Read, tell, re-tell and perform literary texts with children to help them develop language awareness and appropriation.

Think, design and plan a variety of performative and creative tasks and games to work with literature in the classroom.
The workshop explores the pedagogical potential of literary texts as teaching material in the primary classroom. We will discuss the XXIst century skills pedagogical frame for the teaching of foreign languages and analyze the potential teaching points of a sample of literary texts to help to develop content, grammar and phonological awareness. We will carry out a number of highly interactive and collaborative activities that will provide space for exploration and discovery. Be ready!

Reading material:

The reading material will be provided during the session.
The list of children’s literary texts includes:

A selection of poems
XO, OX. A Love Story (2017) Adam Rex (Author) & Scott Campbell (Illustrator)
The First Hippo on the Moon (2014) David Williams (author) & Tony Ross (illustrator)
The Book With No Pictures (2014) B.J. Novak (author)
Man on the Moon (2002) Simon Bartram (author & illustrator)
The Story of the Little Mole who knew it was none of his business. (1989; 1994 Pavilion Books) Werner Holzwarth (Author), Wolf Erlbruch (Illustrator) & Translation by Pavilion Books
It´s Okay to Be Different (2001) Todd Parr (author & illustrator)
The Family Book (2003) Todd Parr (author & illustrator)
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 tasks in groups.
Reading List:
Reading List:

The reading material will be provided during the session. It includes:

A selection of poems
XO, OX. A Love Story (2017) Adam Rex (Author) & Scott Campbell (Illustrator)
The First Hippo on the Moon (2014) David Williams (author) & Tony Ross (illustrator)
The Book With No Pictures (2014) B.J. Novak (author)
Man on the Moon (2002) Simon Bartram (author & illustrator)
The Story of the Little Mole who knew it was none of his business. (1989; 1994 Pavilion Books) Werner Holzwarth (Author), Wolf Erlbruch (Illustrator) & Translation by Pavilion Books
It´s Okay to Be Different (2001) Todd Parr (author & illustrator)
The Family Book (2003) Todd Parr (author & illustrator)
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)

Methodology:
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 tasks in groups.

Bibliography:

Cameron, Lynne. (2001) Teaching English to Young Learners. Cambridge: CUP
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
21st Century Skills Map. Partnership for 21st Century Skills. https://www.actfl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/21stCenturySkillsMap/p21_worldlanguagesmap.pdf
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