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.
If you don´t
know the book you can watch it here:
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 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.
I AM A DERTY
DINOSAUR
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.
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
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:
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
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