Units for 5th primary
During this academic year 21-22 I have been able to work with three schools in on-site PD seminars . The aim was to create some literacy units to be used with students of English and by doing so become more familiarized with the approach. One of the schools, Infanta Leonor, has already finished their work, which is now publicly available on the Internet: Seminario Infanta Leonor Literacy Approach | Mediateca de EducaMadrid The material consists of three units of work on different texts (Harry Potter, The Day the Crayons Quit and Romeo and Juliet), in which students are asked to create different types of texts: the description of a person they admire (video), a booktrailer (video) and a written newspaper report. The work done by this team of teachers is, frankly, quite amazing, and, apparently, their students are making great progress and enjoying this way of working. Looking at the units, I am really impressed by the choice of model text. For example, choosing the "Sorting H...