Reading Aloud To Very Young Learners

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Kindergarten

Literature-
based
Projects
Luciana Fernández
ESSARP
Discussion Task 1: Why use Literature
with very and young learners?

Think Pair Square


Why use Literature with VYL & YL

• Literature can be responded to.


• Children can give their opinions about
Literature.
• Literature encourages deep thinking.
• Quality Literature does not tell children
everything they need to know. It allows for
inference.
• Literature allows fro different viewpoints.
Why use Literature with VYL
• Children can learn to evaluate and analyze
Literature, as well as summarize and
hypothesize about the topic.
• Children can analyze illustrations and develop
their own dialogue for the story.
• Literature provides children with
opportunities to learn about their own culture
and other.
Why use Literature with VYL
• Literature helps children develop emotional
intelligence.
• Literature helps develop emotional and moral
development.
• Literature encourages creativity, it nurtures
and expands imagination.
• Literature fosters personality and social
development.
What about Literature in the EFL VYL
´s Classroom?
• Literature is authentic material.
• Literature encourages interaction.
• Literature expands language awareness.
• Literature educates the whole person.
• Literature contextualizes language.
• Literature provides amazing and meaningful
language opportunities.
Literature-based Projects
Understand and internalize Practice reading, listening,
concepts and ideas writing and speaking skills

Literature

Discuss literary elements Analyze genres

Understand and use


language in context
Literature-based Projects
• Fiction
• Non-fiction
• Poetry
• Science and history writing
• Informational texts
• Multicultural literature
• Other
Literature-based Projects
• Project units structured around Literature.
• Language Arts worked on from, to and about
Literature.
• Links across the curriculum. (Science, Social
Studies, Math, SEL, etc.)
• 21st Century Skills: Critical Thinking,
Communication, Collaboration, Creativity.
How long can Literture-based Projects
be?
• One week.
• Two weeks.
• One month!
ABC´s of Understanding Project
• A project unit has a generative topic and starts
with a big question.
• A project unit seeks to explore a theme or topic.
• A project unit presupposes a Final Task in which
learners will demonstrate what they have learnt
throughout the unit.
• This Final Task determines the content and skills
to be covered.
Key Competencies Key Motivation/ Key Resources
Inducement and Final
Product

Key Relation to the


Curriculum Key ICT Tools

Key Tasks

Key Assessment Key Dissemination


Key Grouping
Take into account:
Literacy Skills
• Print Awareness: Book cover, book back cover,
title, author, illustrator.
• Phonological Awareness: words, syllables,
rhymes, individual sounds.
• Phonics: sound – letter correspondences
• Reading Types: Reading aloud – Shared
Reading – Interactive Reading - Storytelling
Take into account:
Reading Strategies
• Previewing
• Skimming
• Scanning
• Making predictions
• Making inferences
• Asking questions
• Using the senses
• Visualizing
• Summarizing and synthesizing
Take into account:
Critical Thinking
• Expressing feelings and emotions
• Expressing opinion
• Judging
• Asking and answering: What if...? Questions.
• Understanding Point of view
• Analyzing
Take into account:
Literary Elements
• Characters
• Setting
• Plot
• Point of view
• Sequence of events
• Conflict
• Resolution
• Theme
The Final Task: Reading Response

• Change
• Feelings
• Opinion
• Analysis
• Summary
• Art

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