We have had our first serious brainstorming session on our project. We find it really difficult to think of activities that will be carried out only in English and will have meaning and interesting content.
First, we thought it would be nice to prepare activities about literary creation, because we enjoyed so much the unit on children literature and we really wanted to do a project where children were active players, and not passive recipients. But when we began to design activities, we realised that we couldn't think of ways to make children analyse stories in order to learn how create them, doing it all in English. It seemed far too complicated for our first trial. So, we thought we had to forget about the idea, although it was dissapointing.
First, we thought it would be nice to prepare activities about literary creation, because we enjoyed so much the unit on children literature and we really wanted to do a project where children were active players, and not passive recipients. But when we began to design activities, we realised that we couldn't think of ways to make children analyse stories in order to learn how create them, doing it all in English. It seemed far too complicated for our first trial. So, we thought we had to forget about the idea, although it was dissapointing.
So, for now, we have decided to start off with a bit less ambitious and complex idea. Following what we have learnt so far in the unit, we are aware that children need a lot of contextual information in order to build meanings when they are learning a new language. Therefore, we think that illustrated books can be a very interesting way to get in touch with the language, because children have already learnt the structure of story books and the relationship between text and image through their experience in Basque and Spanish, both at home and at school. Thus, illustrated albums offer them an awful lot of information that can compensate their limited understanding of English itself.
We have chosen two illustrated books that will enable us to work on content that is very close to children's everyday experiences and will give us plenty of opportunity to propose activities in which children will play an active role, as we decided when we set our principles for the project:
We have chosen two illustrated books that will enable us to work on content that is very close to children's everyday experiences and will give us plenty of opportunity to propose activities in which children will play an active role, as we decided when we set our principles for the project:
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