COD 2019 - P258

Creative Reading with Children

Primary school teachers

1 sessions, start: 07-Jun

Course detail

Year: 2019
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 800.00
Non affiliate
ARS 800.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 07 June 2019 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
• Define and discuss creative reading in the Primary classroom
• Explore different ways to work with reading texts to help children have a cognitive, artistic, emotional and physical learning experience.
• Read, tell and perform literary texts with children to help them develop language awareness and appropriation.
• Think, plan and carry out a variety of creative “literary” tasks that ignite imagination and creativity!
The workshop explores creative reading strategies and activities in the Primary classroom to ignite children’s thinkability. In this session, we will look at different ways to work with reading texts so as to help children have a cognitive, artistic, emotional and physical learning experience. Interactive and collaborative activities will provide the space for exploration and discovery and, through creative reading, children can develop language awareness and appropriation. We will read contemporary children’s literary texts to nourish our imagination and creativity!

The reading material for our session includes some of the following texts:

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)
Handa’s Surprise (1994) Eileen Browne (author & illustrator)
Where’s the Elephant! (2015) Barroux (author & illustrator)
The Very Busy Spider. A Lift-Flap Book (1984) Eric Carle (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)
Tadpole’s Promise (2003) Jeanne Willis (author) & Tony Ross (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.
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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