1) Good points
- Technological
- Pedagogical
2) Bad points
3) Level and age
4) How would you use the web in your teaching practice
This web page is useful to both reading and listen to stories. Afterwards we can take some of the pictures to illustrate the stories. The songs are an ideal resource to work on rhyming, intonation or even dancing (movement) because the teacher can play the songs, give the scripts, prepare a choreography.
1) Good points of the web from a technological and pedagogical point of view
This web site has a wide variety of narrations, a lots of them are animated so that you can point at them and they move. In my opinion this fact is very motivating if you’re trying to get students’ attention. They’re short too, so that the kids can’t get bored.
Another good point is that while the fiction is told the script appears too. This is very useful when you’re dealing with reading skills and even spelling!
The last point that is important to share is that with this kind of material it’s easy and appealing to teach new vocabulary, structures and also verb tenses.
2) Bad points of the web
As there is a lot of range, before starting listening and working with a specific link, the teacher must revise every site in order to make the learning meaningful. If this doesn’t happen, beginners may feel overwhelmed and get frustrated, while kids with a higher level will get spiritless.
Another point is the organization of the web. It seems to be very easy to use, however it needs the supervision of an adult. There is a lot of advertisements that lead to mendacious pages where youngsters may get in trouble.
A diverse aspect is the fact of the pictures moving, explained before in the good points. As the images are animated they can both distract and attract. Here the professor will decide how to deal with this.
3) Level and age
The content of this web page can’t be pigeonholed as only for a certain grade. There are lots of materials that can be used in a huge variety of ways. With most of the stories you can work with student who have begun reading short ones, although it may be suitable for infant grades as well as with the elder groups of primary schools. With the first ones you may listen to the tales in order to develop listening comprehension. In this way they can associate the spoken word with its graphical and visual representation. On the other hand, there is a possibility of improving skills such as pronunciation.
4) How you would use the web in your teaching practice
From my point of view the attachment above allows broad possibilities. As it’s so colorful one can fascinate kids before treating a specific concept, like for example descriptions.
As it is said this type of tools are very useful when dealing with the 4 skills. The teacher can use some of the tales when they want children to read; every one might have their turn to be the one who speaks after the narrator. This fact can be helpful when treating speech capacities (pronunciation, rhythm, etc.).
1)Good points
- Technological
3)Level and age: from 3 to 6 year old students
4)How would you use the web in your teaching practice
-The stories and also the songs could be good to work with in the classroom. The songs are a good source to work on the alphabet and some contents such as colors, animals, feelings, sounds…
-Making children sing along the songs would improve their English pronunciation.
5) 2 further webs you have used or would like to use and reasons for your selection
Write all that next to the links (at least half of it as commentaries) in a Word document and finally include that in the wiki in MiAulario
Lower primary and nursery (Sylvia León)
http://www.speakaboos.com/ (children ́s stories)
This website is good for children between 2 – 8 years old because it is colourful, accessible and easy to use. It is easy to locate different things because you have different icons where you can see what kind of story do you want.
Besides you can find many stories about several themes: animals, dinosaurs, traffic, magic, songs, dance...etc
Besides it is really good that while listening the story or the song, it is possible to read the text or the lyrics. This makes easy for children to get to know how to write everything.
What I do not like in this website is that at the top there are advertisements and even if they are controlled it is easy to have opportunities for children to go to other sites that may not be convenient for them. I would be also really useful to have different ways of searching the stories, not only by themes but also by ages, difficulty... And I think that they should add more stories in order to have a really useful tool in class or for children at home.
I would use this website using a song at the beginning of some classes and a story at the end of other classes as a way to make children enjoy the language.
• http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/es/
I would use this webpage as a tool to be used for children by themselves during
Computer class.
• http://www.bbckids.ca/
I would use this webpage in a science class to read interesting material.
• http://www.uptoten.com/
I would use this webpage to get material like colouring pages that children could
use in free time, when some of them finish the activity earlier than others.
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