READER: Matilda and the mystery of the ghost

I choose Matilda's book by Roald Dahl to do a reader as I wanted to create a children's story based on this story. Because I think it is a different story compared to the typical children’s stories.

This paper has been very difficult for me, because the book is very long to make a reader for children. For this reason I created Matilda and the mystery of the ghost, where I told part of the Matilda's book.
It was a challenge!.

STORYTELLING: Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell

I choose Dear Zoo by Rob Campbell because I think that it is very funny for the children. It has easy vocabulary and grammar, and it repeats the same structure throughout the story so that it is appropriate for children.



It has flaps which you can ask questions to their students so they have to guess which animal is there.
You powers that children improve their imagination, communication, and also with this book you can create a very special atmosphere and you can have a relationship between the teacher and children are closer.
And you not only teach animals but also colours, adjectives for describe…

ZOG by Julia Donaldson

We´ll choose the book Zog to tell it to young children between 5 or 6 years old because it´s a good story, very funny and it´s very motivating. We thought that it´s better telling it instead of read it because it has difficult vocabulary so we´ll adapt it to this age. Other adaptation would be the large of the book so we´ll read it in two days.

With Zog children can improve their creativity and learn about different topics as a child do it in his life.

ACTIVITIES OF " THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR"

 

There are some activities that you can use in relation with The very hungry caterpillar, these activities are made before, while or after reading the book.

Before:

First talk with the children about worms and after about caterpillars.

Investigate about caterpillar: where they live, what they eat, how they grow,... We could see caterpillars, photos, videos,...

 After the investigation we read "The very hungry caterpillar".

 

While:

We read the book, investigate with the children and we ask them about what happend in the book. Also we ask about:

- Is this caterpillar like others?

- Is good eat a lot of food?

- What happend with the caterpillar at the end of the story?

 

After:

We make a theatrical little perform with the children continuing the story.

Others activities:

We can have worms in class and see their live-cicle.
We play pretend to be caterpillars and we move as them. In this activity we can perform their life-cicle.
We see differents types of food and which are the best for the diet.

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

This is a simplification of a part of the Roald Dahl “Charlie and the chocolate factory” story.

Charlie is a little boy who lives in a very small house with his parents and grandparents.
Charlie loves chocolate, he would like to eat it every day but his parents but his family haven´t got enough money to buy chocolate. For this reason he looks forward to being his birthday because he´ll have a special present, he´ll have a chocolate bar.                                                                                                                                 Although the wish of this boy is going to the factory that is close his house, he wants to visit the chocolate's factory.

STORYTELLING AND DRAMA IN ENGLISH: RESOURCE

I chose this website, because you have many different stories. There are stories that can be played on the page, others to be read while you see the pictures of this. Also I liked it because with this webpage the teacher or the students themselves may select a Word and see how it pronounced.
For all this I think it would be a good resource to use in the classroom. 

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