Great Authors!

During the week, we have taught about the great authors for children literature. First of all, Raquel taught something related their works and after that, she had explained about our task.

Our task was focused on the search and investigation of an author in groups. Each group chose a paper that contained a name. In our case, we wanted to investigate about Eric Carle so, in the paper put “David Shannon”.

We had not any idea about this author and it was not easy to talk about a stranger. Raquel explained that we had to convince the audience about that man was the best author.

We had a guide to introduce our author in a correct way talking about their life, works and topics and the reasons of that he was the better.

We decided to divide the task and we developed many curiosities about him. By this reason, we were more involved in our work.

I think that we had many reasons to expose this author as the better: He had won lots of awards; he wrote his books when he was a child and he will record a movie with “DreamWorks”.

In my opinion, he understood how to tell their stories in an interesting way. Works as “No David”(1998) and “How I became a pirate” were their hall of fame.

When we had all the information, each group prepared a PowerPoint to explain his author. It was an interesting class because each presentation had something interesting. Congratulations!

Probably, we will work in a future with these authors and I consider that it is important to understand their works because we will transmit better the ideas in a class.

IF YOU READ, THEY READ

Hi everybody! Last week, we did our Reading map in class where Raquel explained what a reading map was.

For me, reading map is like an schema with our books and phases of reading during our life. When we finish our reading maps, we did a museum in class to expose our artworks.

The museum was something different because all the class could to see the reading maps and I think that it was like an inspiration to improve in other works.

In my opinion, this activity was something special because we have could to remember our infant and the books that we have read. By other hand, I´d like to explain my own reading map.

Since I was a child, I used to hear the stories that my parents told me before to fall sleep. When I was six years, my teacher taught me to read and I tried to read school books like “The five “or “Aladelta Books”.

Really, during the school I didn’t have interest about reading so when I came to the high school, I tried to have my own interest and I became to read books about intrigue and psychological aspects as Paulo Coelho or Agatha Christy.

As you can see, my interest tried in the high school thanks to a teacher that he showed me what types of books could interest me. Actually, for me, reading is a distraction or a way to scape.

In my opinion, I have learnt thanks to this project, the importance of the reading. Children should understand that reading can be fun and we should to promote these aspects for our pupils.

I think that the aim of Raquel was that we understand the importance of reading in this stage.

                                     " If you read, they read "

We need a new way to understand Phonetic!

I always have thought that phonetic was something boring and uninteresting.  I didn’t understand the difference between the phonemes and letters.  I supposed that when I have been in the school, I didn’t learn this topic completely.

As teachers, I have understand that to teach literature, it is essential the phonetic. Phonetic has an aim to teach the production of speech sounds by humans. In our case, it is important to includes that phonetic have different rules or different positions depending on the language.

To teach phonetic is a difficult way. Children acquire a different lexicon depending on all the words that they have heard.

In the past, phonetic was taught through reading and writing. In my opinion, I think that phonetic should be understand by the child. Children don’t understand the purpose of phonetic and by this reason, we should to choose other option to teach this section as games or activities.

As a conclusion, children should understand that phonetic is not letters, if not sounds that depend on the form and the language.