3-Written+skills

Third theme is focused on written and reading skills, but we are also still working with oral ones, as all skills are important and have to be included in every lesson designed.

I have to specify that we approach to the written/reading skills through narrative texts; they allow us to analyze characters, learn how to describe, create new worlds, experiment fantastic adventures...

To make children aware of the importance of reading and stimulate that they read books, we experimented on ourselves a reading plan. Teacher set a mural of a bare tree out of classroom. Each time one of us read a book, we had to take a leaf (sticker), write tittle of book, and put the leaf on a branch. That way, after some time tree was not bare anymore. It was full of leaves, representing all the books students read. It´s a really good way to motivate children, they feel like participating in something important and they take it seriously. We also had to register the books in a "reading diary", including a little summary.

Here is an example of complete reading diary, with the books I read during this course:

If we dont have enough books in our classroom, in the school library, they are not suitable for our students or we just want to expand the offer, we must remember that Internet has always great resources. We can use online books, that can be found in different languages and about many topics.

[|Children´s library online]

For this theme we created a complete unit, which had to be formed by 4 lessons at least. So difficulty, if we compare with previous task, was increased. Template for unit designement has also some differences with the lesson one, as it has to take into account other aspects->

The whole unit was designed from the conception of a narrative text as the leading activity. This narrative text was "invented" by our group, as our "book" constisted in different separated cards with pictures of what´s happening in the story.

This is the narrative story of the unit-> As you can see if you read the story, it´s based on the exploration of nature, animals, so we focused every lesson on the goals of approaching to a close nature, forest, its caracteristics, the animals that live there, etc.

We used this book unit as a guide to select activities and the sequence of lessons:

The result of our work is this complete unit: **Misterious tracks**

I also want to show you some of the resources we prepared for the unit: the craft of the forest and just some examples of animal flashcards that we used in almost each lesson.