3 LITTLE PIGS 

In the next section I am going to show you a very famous Roalh Dalh stories:

From Revolting Rhymes

The Three Little Pigs
by Roald Dahl

The animal I really dig
Above all others is the pig.
Pigs are noble. Pigs are clever,
Pigs are courteous. However,
Now and then, to break this rule,
One meets a pig who is a fool.
What, for example, would you say
If strolling through the woods one day,
Right there in front of you, you saw
A pig who'd built his house of STRAW?
The Wolf who saw it licked his lips,
And said, 'That pig has had his chips.'

'Little pig, little pig, let me come in!'
'No, no, by the hairs on my chinny-chin-chin!'
'Then I'll huff and I'll puff
'And I'll blow your house in!'

The little pig began to pray,
But Wolfie blew his house away.
He shouted, 'Bacon, pork and ham!
'Oh, what a lucky Wolf I am!'
And though he ate the pig quite fast,
He carefully kept the tail till last.
Wolf wandered on, a trifle bloated.
Surprise, surprise, for soon he noted
Another little house for pigs,
And this one had been built of TWIGS!

'Little pig, little pig, let me come in!'
'No, no, by the hairs on mychinny-chin-chin!'
'Then I'll huff and I'll puff
'And I'll blow your house in!'

The Wolf said, 'Okay, here we go!'
He then began to blow and blow.
The little pig began to squeal.
He cried, 'Oh Wolf, you've had one meal!
'Why can't we talk and make a deal?'
The Wolf replied, 'Not on your nelly!'
And soon the pig was in his belly.
'Two juicy little pigs!' Wolf cried,
'But still I am not satisfied!
'I know full well my Tummy's bulging,
'But oh, how I adore indulging.'
So creeping quietly as a mouse,
The Wolf approached another house,
A house which also had inside
A little piggy trying to hide.
But this one, Piggy Number Three,
Was bright and brainy as could be.
No straw for him, no twigs or sticks.
This pig had built his house of BRICKS.
'You'll not get me!' the Piggy cried.
'I'll blow you down!' the Wolf replied.
'You'll need,' Pig said, 'a lot of puff,
'And I don't think you've got enough.'
Wolf huffed and puffed and blew and blew.
The house stayed up as good as new.
'If I can't blow it down,' Wolf said,
'I'll have to blow it up instead.
'I'll come back in the dead of night
'And blow it up with dynamite!'
Pig cried, 'You brute! I might have known!'
Then, picking up the telephone,
He dialled as quickly as he could
The number of Red Riding Hood.
'Hello,' she said. 'Who's speaking? Who?
'Oh, hello Piggy, how d'you do?'
Pig cried, 'I need your help, Miss Hood!
'Oh help me, please! D'you think you could?'
'I'll try, of course,' Miss Hood replied.
'What's on your mind?' ... 'A Wolf!' Pig cried.
'I know you've dealt with wolves before,
'And now I've got one at my door!'
'My darling Pig,' she said, 'my sweet,
'That's something really up my street.
'I've just begun to wash my hair.
'But when it's dry, I'll be right there.'
A short while later, through the wood,
Came striding brave Miss Riding Hood.
The Wolf stood there, his eyes ablaze
And yellowish, like mayonnaise.
His teeth were sharp, his gums were raw,
And spit was dripping from his jaw.
Once more the maiden's eyelid flickers.
She draws the pistol from her knickers.
Once more, she hits the vital spot,
And kills him with a single shot.
Pig, peeping through the window, stood
And yelled, 'Well done, Miss Riding Hood!'

Ah, Piglet, you must never trust
Young ladies from the upper crust.
For now, Miss Riding Hood, one notes,
Not only has two wolf-skin coats,
But when she goes from place to place,
She has a PIGSKIN TRAVELLING CASE.

When we studied Literature adapted to Infant Education with Irune we talked in one of her classes about Roalh Dalh but I have never read one of his stories before. When I began reading it I was spellbound.

I couldn´t stop reading it. At the beginning when I had only read the titles of the story I was confused. They were like the Disney films, and all my childhood memories came to my mind.

Then when I read a little information about the author´s life I thought that I would read something similar of Perrault or Grimm stories. But it was not, it was different than this kind of stories. As we can see in all his stories, they have a lot of tricky rhymes, they are like beautiful poems.

In addition, the plots of Roalh Dalh´s stories are different than the plot of this kind of stories that we are used to. They always have strong endings.

All his stories made me think about the meaning of life and the different points of view from which you can tell a story and that not all the stories can have a happy ending. For example, in Cinderella, he made a strong and decisive woman while in the Disney film is a sweet and fragile girl.

Finally, making a big effort I decided to choose The three little pigs, maybe I chose this one because I loved the three pigs Disney film story when I was little and a lot of children love them too. 

Talking from my perspective I love the way that Roalh decides to end the story because why can´t the antagonist win sometimes? In most of the stories the antagonist loses while the main character wins. However, in real life a lot of times evil wins and the good people don´t achieve the things that they dreamed of. In this story Roalh Dahl lets the evil character win in an unimaginable ending. Who would have imagined that the wolf would have used dynamite?

As we talked about in class, Roalh Dahl’s stories are not appropriate to use in class, but as we have learned in this subject, we can adapt it to use Roalh Dahl stories. For example, adapting vocabulary, shorting the plot, simplifying structures, etc. But from my point of view it is a little difficult to do this, because from my point of view, the story can lose easily the essence and magic that Roalh Dahl gives to the story. 

From my point of view the wolf from The three little pigs made sense in the past where people live in villages surrounded of lush forests. But now a days society has change and Why wolfs must be evil characters?  I am happy because some authors try to change this idea and they try to introduce the wolf as a gentle character as we can see for example in "Diferente" a book written by Jerôme le Dorze and Cloè Rémiat. 

BIOGRAPHY

• http://www.funny-poems.biz/roald_dahl/The-Three-Little-Pigs-nursery-rhyme-by-Roald-Dahl-for-children.html

STORYTELLER SPEACH

In this section I am going to talk about this amazing speach by Andrew Wright. If you had never listen to him I am going to put the speach link below. I recomend you to hear him!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=JHq2HH2c51I

As you can hear him in his speach, His accent is very clear for English language learners. The more your students listen to native speakers, especially in person, the more they will pick up a good and natural accent and understand the intonation and rhythm of the language.

As we can read in his biography, Andy's early life was deeply affected by having a blind mother, blind grandmother and blind great grandmother, all of whom told stories in the ancient Celtic tradition. One aspect of Andrew’s storytelling is the ability to paint pictures with words. Andy was influenced and learned to storytell from his visually impaired family members, which lead to a great reliance on his choice and use of words, and the use of a wide range of voice.

When I finish this video I was astonishing. I didn´t think that story telling is as important as it really is in the world.

For example it was unbelieve when Andrew explain to the audience that top managements choose to tell a story to his employees. It is amazing that if you want to move people you must tell stories.

I like the way he engages to the audience and the way that he tells stories and the different ways that you can use it tell stories.  

I never had sown before a story tell with draws and I like the idea and the way he did it. And exploring his life I can see that he wrote a book about how to draw in a blackboard. I want to read it, it could be so useful for us, and we can use this advice to tell stories.

Other think that I like about the way that they tell stories is that he makes the audience participate and it makes the audience pay more attention. 

And in this video I saw different ways to make the audience participle of what are you telling.

A lot of times we don’t make the children participles in storytelling because we think that the teacher is the only tat can tell a story. But I agree with Andrew in that every single think tell us a story including pictures or our haircut. I never realise in the nonverbal language arts and the strong that it could be to everybody. For these reason big brands like MacDonald’s use it in his trademark.

I see his point of view when he tells us that we need stories but not only for fun. With stories we can “do” things we never have do before.

For these reason I appreciate the work that he do giving children the opportunity to tell us a story too. For example in the speech he tells us some stories that was create whit the children or only with his imagination. Because I think that the children are one of the best creation of histories because like he tells we give a children bokes and he can invent a lot of thinks with them but I think that we give the same boxes to an adult and …. Because I think that when we grow up our imagination is disappearing when we get older.

Sometimes we don’t let them tell us a story because we think that they don´t have a properly grammar and vocabulary. But we can see that with his experience it is not happen, for example When a very little children invent the story about two cats. They have very little language but they made what they could with the language that they have.

And sometimes I think that we don´t let them tell stories because we think that it is not going to have sense and it is not going to be deep. But we can see in other example that he gives us how when they have the opportunity to make the end of the story they give a deep ending to the little white cat.

I think that sometimes when we tell to the children a story we don´t know all the inputs that we are giving and we don´t take seriously of it.

But we can see in this speech all the things that we can do to tell a story. It is amazing how they give to tell stories the importance that it really have. When he saw us his story bag with his story hat and story jackets. I think that the dressing u when you are telling a story is so important. You can help to the children to understanding what it is going to happen and you gain his attention and silence successfully.

The stories not only help and improve the language skills. They can allow children to experience diverse cultures, although the stories now a days are changing because of internet and globalization.

But stories can help to promote a feeling of well-being and relaxation, increase children's willingness to communicate thoughts and feelings, encourage active participation, encourage use of imagination and creativity or encourage cooperation between students.

I never saw before story jackets but I like the idea. With it they can invent a lot of histories with you and I like the different textures and sounds that they have for stimulate to the audience. 

BOOKS IN INFANT EDUCATION

I think that books are too important for education and young learners too. Thanks to books children can learnt a lot of listening, grammar and vocabulary skills but as well they can learnt fillings, values, culture, etc. in a funny way.

But a lot of times when someone tells a story. He does not give the importance that it really has. A lot of teachers use the reading corners when they need fill gaps in the time table. Why we don´t give it the importance that it really has when in the BOE speaks about it in some objectives and we can see the importance that it has to the learning process.

 On my point of view books are so important for education and it might be a base of children education.  As well a lot of teacher don’t know that it is so useful to do activities before during and after of the activities.  But as we can see in classes it is so useful.

For this reason, I like this subject. It is teaching a lot of activities, how to use puppets, How do a storytelling, ect.

I am agree with the notes that give us teacher. We need to use good storybooks that Teachers should select authentic storybooks that are accessible and relevant for children. As we know the difficulty of this issue is to use the correct book. The teacher helps us with this, giving us good criteria. These criteria are:

●       Level

●       Literary devices 

●       Values 

●       Educational potential 

●       Literary devices 

●       Illustrations (This point in me point of view it is one of the most important ones, because a lot of times pictures can help to understand the plot and vocabulary of the story).

But us we know many authentic storybooks can be used with a variety of ages and levels, depending on how the teacher exploits the story.  And we learn in our lessons how to adapt them to a particular age. Like a second language teacher we must consider the lingusitc level of the children.

As well I believe that the teacher must use a different ways of introducing literature 2in class, for example read aloud books, doing storytelling, plays, etc.

Attending this entire thing I thing that following books are interesting to use in a class.

POLAR BEAR POLAR BEAR WHAT DO YOU HEAR?

If you don´t know the book you can  watch it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehoGdGokXfc

I choose this book because when Susana showed us Polar Bear Polar Bear what do you see? It was amazing and I tried to buy, But when I tried to buy Polar Bear Polar Bear what do you see? in a book shop I found this one call “Polar Bear Polar bear what do you hear? That I like so much too.

AUTHOR

BILL MARTIN JR.

As we can read on the Internet, in 1972 he became a full-time writer. It is astonishing how he revitalized his publishing career when he met John Archambault in 1983 at UC Riverside. They went on to collaborate on more than a dozen award-winning books, including Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, and Barn Dance!, books that I really recommend for children. As we can read as well, during the last 15 years of his life, he co-wrote many books with Michael Sampson, whom he met at a reading conference in Tucson, Arizona in 1978.

I think that this book is good to learn vocabulary for second language learners. I think that children can learn in a funny way some animal names and how they cold the animal sound verbs.

I think that this book it is appropriate to 6 years old English learners, because they have such a big curiosity about animals. The vocabulary and the type of book I think that it is appropriate too. They can learn some useful grammar stuff like question or present simple structures.

SUME UP

I like the way that the author presents animals and the noise that they make. However, it was amazing how he decides to finish the story. At the end he decided to introduce the zookeeper!!! Moreover, in the last page children can remember how is the sound of all the animals that appear in the book without clues because in the last page it appears all the illustrations of the animals. 

ILUSTRATIONS

As we can see, this book has a good size for reading it aloud; I can imagine reading it aloud with children making a circle next to me.

Illustrations make second language learners understand the meaning of the plot, because it has in each page a very big animal painting filling nearly all the page. The paintings are connected to the text as well helping it to understand it. The author wants to show the importance of the pictures rather than the text. For this reason I think that it is a good book to read aloud.

LETTERS

The text of the book it is well divided. Leaving in each page one sentence makes it easy for second language learners. The sentences that are used in the book (present simple and question structures) are repetitive in the entire book. This, in me point of view, provides good inputs for the children.

The letter typography is easy to read and has a good side. The letters and words are well separated to make it easy to read.

ACTIVITIES

BEFORE

A funny way to introduce the book is, in me point of view, spending a day with them in a zoo. They can learn how the animals look like in the real life, how is their behaviour, where they live, etc.

And then they are going to see some of them in the book!!! It is going to be amazing!!!

The next day before reading the book I wold ask some questions to them. Some of then can be: What are your favourite animals?  What sound do they make? etc.

DOURING

I would use this book for reading it aloud to the class. As we can see, this book has a good size for reading it aloud, because children making a circle close to the teacher can see all the pictures very well. In me point of view, one of the best ways to keep children’s attention is letting them collaborate. It would be funny asking them to make the animal sound aloud and I would ask them to make some animals mimics in each page, for example asking them: what does the leopard do? If they don´t understand it, I would do it first and ask them to imitate me.

AFTER

As we know, all the books should be read to the children more than once. For this reason, I would do this activity after the book was read to the class a minimum of 4 times. I think that this activity is an easy way to evaluate. The purpose of this activity is to link each animal with his English name. We can do it using new technologies as well, such PDIs.

I would do a game in PoWtoons (a PDI application) where children can participate. I think a good activity can be: link the English animal name (in this case I would use the speakers, letting them hear the animal name) with his book’s picture.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

●       https://www.billmartinjr.com/bill_martin

●       http://www.jbonzer.com/PolarBearPolarBear1bymrs.bonzer.pdf

●       https://www.pinterest.es/

   

I AM A DERTY DINOSAUR

If you don´t know the book you can watch it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JK7-jvs39M

AUTHOR

JANEEN BRIAN

As we can read in her website page, she never thought on becoming a writer but finally she became a well known one. She began as a teacher that loves literature and reading aloud to his class. Then she thought that writing small poems could be useful to teach some stuff to her class, and nowadays she is a famous educational publisher.

ANN JAMES

Ann Catherine Stewart James (born 6 October 1952) is an Australian illustrator of more than 60 children books. As we know, she has become a significant contributor to the development and appreciation of children's literature in Australia and she had won some awards. Some of them were: In 2000 when she won the Pixie O'Harris Award, and in 2002 when she won the national Dromkeen Medal for her contribution to children's literature. Anne James currently lives and works in Melbourne, where she runs the Books Illustrated gallery and studio that co-founded with Ann Haddon in 1988.

I choose this book because I could teach children a lot of vocabulary about the body and I think that it is a good idea to read aloud to children with English as a second language.  As all the books have the same structure, children can receive useful inputs about present simple structures. I also like this book because the children can identify themselves with the main character, the dinosaur, and it is useful for them in order to understand better the story. I like the structure that follows the book and I think that the rhythmical text is engaging and found to read aloud.

I would use this book for 3 years old children. At this age, lots of 3 years old children love playing with madness and they can identify themselves with the main character, the dinosaur. Moreover, they’d love the onomatopoeias and this book uses a lot of them, it is amazing how children experiment the language repeating them.

SUM UP

In this section I will give a short summary of the book. If you have read the book you can see that the story is about a dinosaur that doesn’t like having baths and likes playing in the mud, and he ends up covered of mud all around his body. Finally, he has a bath at the end of the book, but later goes back to the mud once clean and finishes dirty again. 

PICTURES

Talking about picture illustration I would say that they are simple and not very colourful. The author only uses brown and black colours. I think it makes it is useful for people who don’t understand very well the language. It is amazing how you can understand the story only looking at the pictures.

The text that its writing in the book appears in a small part of the page (only one or two phrases in each page) and appears in a part of the page that don´t disturbed the pictures. 

LETTER

The letter that is used in this book is easy to understand and it appears in the middle high. They always use the same type of letter and most of it is in black colour.

I like the author´s idea of changing the colour and the size of the onomatopoeia sound words sounds, it is a good way to highlight this part of the text.

As we can see this onomatopoeia sounds words appear without illustration filling the entire page and in a colourful wright way. 

ACTIVITIES

BEFORE

The first activity that I would like to do with the class before reading the book it is: give children freedom to play wearing their swimming suit in the mud with some accessories like buckets or shoves. They can have the opportunity to experiment with the mud, something that a lot of adults don´t like them to do it.

DURING

Before I read aloud the book, I would ask some questions to the class in order to give them the opportunity to speak in English and try to express themselves. To help them I would ask some questions like: What do you think this book it is about? Have you ever seen a dinosaur? Do you often play in the mud? I would try that every child makes a comment.

I choose the read aloud thechnique and to keep children attention I would make them collaborate for example repeating the onomatopoeias or pointing at the same time as me the parts of their bodies when they appear in the story. 

Once I finished reading aloud the book, I would ask some questions to see if they understand the plot of the story. Some questions will be: What happens when the dinosaur has a bath? What parts of the body does he have dirty? Etc.

AFTER

After reading the story I would like that each child paints a muddy dinosaur.

For this activity would need:

●       Brown finger paint cans

●       Painting sheets with the dinosaur printed on it.

●       Some bowls

In this activity children would paint with finger painting the parts of the body that the dinosaur gets dirty.

Finally, they let it dry. When all the paintings are dry we would use them to decorate our classroom.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

●       https://janeenbrian.com/

●       https://www.pinterest.es/

GUESS HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU

In some schools’ children are too advanced in contrast to other schools levels. For this reason, I’d like to use this section to talk about a book that I would use in this case.

I would use Guess How much I love you book for 5 years old children advance English learners. As we can read in some websites this book it is a British children's book written by Sam McBratney and illustrated by Anita Jeram. It was published in 1994, in the UK by Walker Books They sold more than 28 million of copies worldwide and was published in 53 languages.

If you don´t know the book you can watch it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aep8wNHGto

AUTHOR

SAM MC BRATNEY

It is a remarkable children book writer from Northern Ireland. He wrote more than fifty books for children and young adults, but is best known as the author of the best-selling children's book Guess How Much I Love You, which has sold more than 28 million copies worldwide, and been translated into 53 languages.

ANITA JERAM

She always enjoyed drawing, but she had worked in a wide variety of jobs before pursuing a degree course in illustration at Manchester Polytechnic. Her first book, Bill's Belly Button, was published by Walker Books in 1991. But as we know other books she has written are: Contrary Mary (1995), Bunny, My Honey (1999), and I Love My Little Storybook (2002).

As an illustrator, Jeram received recognition for her illustrations in Sam McBratney's Guess How Much I Love You, which is a picture-book best seller.  As you can read in her biography, she has also illustrated several books by Dick King-Smith and Amy Hest.

SUMME UP

One of the best characteristics of this book it is that children can identify themselves easily with little rabbit. Ans in me point of view it makes the book more attractive to them.  Other advantage it is that being identify with one of the main characters could help them to understand more easily the plot.

This book, in me point of view, has a deep topic. It is about love, something that it is difficult to understand for young and old people. For this reason, I think that it is useful to speak about it with your child.

In this case I think that we can be creative inside our class and we can do a Kamishibai work using the pictures´ illustrations.

Now focus in the plot I will say that Little Rabbit shows his daddy how much he loves him: as wide as he can reach and as far as he can hop. However, does Big Rabbit love him more? Because he can reach farther and hop higher, loves him back just as much. Then Little Rabbit loves him right up to the moon, but that's just halfway to Big Nutbrown Hare's love for him.

PICTURES

In the illustrations, predominate brown, blue, yellow and green colours.  I like the pictures because they are very realistic, they fit together with the text but you can´t understand the plot only with this book’s illustrations.

But the pictures fill a big part of each page and they are located in strategy places.

WORD

With this book you can work a lot of little thinks like vocabulary and grammar (present simple, past, comparatives, superlatives structures and some expressions like I love you to the moon and back.)

The text takes up a big part of the page and the letters are easy to understand. The writer uses the same kind and high of letter through the book. He uses thing and black letters that in my point of view go very well with the pictures of the pages. 

ACTIVITIES

BEFORE

The first activity that I would do is an assembly. I think that letting the children talk would make them develop a lot of skills. For this reason in this activity I would ask them some questions like: What do you thing love is? Have you ever fallen in love? What do you think people do when they love to someone? Etc.

I am going to ask them some questions step by step and let them discuss about the topic.

DOURING

I think that the best way to tell this story is using a Teatro Kamishibai technique. In this section I would tell the story giving importance to the illustrations. But I would make children participate as well asking him to jump, to open his arms, etc.

AFTER

To end this story I would do some biscuits in the class to give the children the opportunity to give a present to the people that they really love. They can give the biscuits to their parents, grandparents,…

BIBLIOGRAPHY

●       http://www.guesshowmuchiloveyou.com/

●       https://www.pinterest.es/

●       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_McBratney