To Teach Literacy Through Stories
The last week we had the opportunity to put into practice what we are learning in class. More specifically to teach literacy through stories.
First of all we had to choose a classic tale in groups of seven and create a wonderful world related with the topic.
We chose Hercules.
We wanted to create the atmosphere of the story for children, to get it we decorated the class with difefrentes objects like white and black clouds , rays , columns ...
The class was divide in two parts , the Olympus aside with white clouds and the Infraworld on the other side filled with rays.
Inside the classroom, we found the band members; Hercules and their muses, three of them from the Olympus dressed in white and other three muses from the Infra world wearing black costumes.
When children went into the class, we received them dancing to the song of the Muses from Hercules, while we handed them a passsport's hero, and managed to pass the test seals to completion.
The kids had to do three tests:
- The first test was in The Olympus, led by the white-clad muses in which the children with closed eyes they take a part of Hercules and were following a string through a maze to get to the board, where they had to stick the body of Hercules has take them, to complete a puzzle.
- The second test took place in The Infraworld, conducted by the muses of black. The test was to pass through the Infraworld tunnel and take words from the end of the tunnel. When all the children had taken all the words, with the help of the Muses they formed a sentence related to morals and heroes.
- The third and final test was to tell the story of Hercules with digital images on the drawing board and then all together had to draw Hercules on the whiteboard.
As we can see, we can use a lot and really creative and original resources for teaching children. It does not necessarily have to continue teaching with old and boring methods. Teaching through stories is great for both students and teachers, so as a future teacher I will not hesitate to implement this strategy in teaching.
Children are eager to know, and if they are also taught through something that motivates them, we will be fulfilling our purpose.
In my opinion the kids really enjoyed the experience and we too.
Here you have some videos for you can enjoy to see us while we teach!
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ResponderEliminarHello Marta :)
ResponderEliminarFirst of all, I completely agree with you because I also think that we can teach a lot of things through stories like Hercules. I think that they are a very good resource because most of children know that fairy tales show it is not difficult for them to learn something from them.
Secondly, for me, it was a pity that I couldn´t see your workshop. I had the opportunity to see most of the workshops but we didn´t have enough time to see all of them. I think that your workshop had to be very funny for children. In my opinion you have taken a lot of things that children like puzzles, interactive whiteboard, etc. I think that the funniest part of your workshop was to enter into the tunnel and take the words, wasn´t it? I would have liked to see it. I have to say that my group children also, they were very sad when I said to them that we didn´t have time to see Hercules. Congratulations :)
Finally, I also think that children had a very good experience and they are not going to forget it, and we also, personally, I had a really good time and I hope I can repeat something like this in a future.
Well done Marta :D
Hi Marta :D
ResponderEliminarTo start, I want to tell you that you did a very good job last Tuesday with children, I am sure that they enjoyed a lot with your workshop. I could see your class during the break and it was very well decorated, I leked a lot the door with the two Greek colomns :)
Secondly, I agree with you and also with Alberto, I think that work with stories is a really good idea when you are working with children of primary education and we can do a lot of thing with them, For example, in my workshop (Cinderella) we created some books with the story of Cinderella but with some mistakes that children had to discover while reading the book. We thought that with this activity children can improve their comprehension while they are enjoying reading a good story.
To finish, I want to say that, as you, I also enjoyed a lot with children because they were happy and smiling with all of the workshops we created. I think they also enjoy a lot with the workshops and with all the characters that they found in the classes :)
Nice post Marta ;)
Hi Marta! I agree with you! This activity had been a way to promote the English through stories. In our case, I think that it was a great idea to work with stories because children were more involved in the project. It is necessary that the pupils meet each story because they will understand better the activities.
ResponderEliminarIn my case, I worked with you in this work so during the activity, I had to guide a group of children. I´d like to see our project during all the activity so I think that my experience with the children was really fantastic because I had the opportunity of to be a teacher.
Relate our activity; I know that it was a good project because my group of children was been involved. I think that the idea of passport´s hero was fantastic because each child wants to complete the passport.
Finally, I´d like to add that I think that our group combined the traditional methods with new technology (interactive blackboard). In conclusion, I think that our project was fantastic and now, I can affirm that we are teachers!