KP81 - Enjoying Literature with Young Learners

Sessions	Dates	Start	Finish
1	26 Apr 2010	05:30 PM	08:00 PM

Kindergarten and early Primary teachers.

Think, plan and practice a variety of classroom activities to work with literature in the classroom:
• Verbal and non-verbal responses to a literary text.
• Illustrations.
• Linguistic and literary devices found in short stories.

We are going to read and work with the following stories:
• Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Leoni.
• We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen.
• More Pants by Giles Andreae Illustrator Nick Sharratt.
* We will include other literary texts if time allows.

- Barboni, S., Beacon, G. & Porto, M. (2008) Diseño Curricular de la Dirección Provincial de Educación Primaria, Subsecretaría de Educación, Dirección General de Cultura y Educación del Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
- Egan, K. (2005) An Imaginative Approach to Teaching. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
- Grondona White, C. y Moyano, G. (2004) Storytelling in the EFL Classroom. Words on Words – UK Literature for children and teenagers. British Council Argentina.
- Lazar, G. (2005) Literature and Language Teaching. Cambridge: CUP.
- Maley, A. (1994) Short and Sweet. Short Texts and How to Use Them. Londres: Penguin.
- McRae, J. (1991) Literature with a Small "l". Londres: Macmillan.
- Pope, R. (1995) Textual Intervention. Critical and Creative Strategies for Literary Studies. Londres: Routledge.
- Worthy, J. (2005) Readers Theater for Building Fluency. New York: Teaching Resources.

Workshop. Dialogical and interactive approach in which participants will discuss and apply concepts, brainstorm creative teaching ideas and develop supporting teaching materials.