5 BOOKS SELECTION FOR THE CLASSROOM

Subject: DRAMA AND LIITTERATURE

Task: SELECTION OF FIVE BOOKS FOR TEACHING ENGLISH IN CLASSROOM

Forever Young

Bob Dylan

Illustrated by Paul Rogers

 Dylan has recently wone the Nobel Prize and in my opinion... children deffinitely should know. They have to be exposed to all type of text, not only the ones that are supposed to be “childish”. 

Illustrated by Paul Rogers, with different and amazing drawings, it will approache kids to both music and poetry.

Here´s a link to a video to watch in class:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc-a1kP7ITA

Little Blue and Little Yellow

Leo Leonni

Ed. 

 

I´m a huge fan of Leo Leonni, so I had to have included  in this selection one of his small pieces of art. Leonni´s books are primarly dealing with abstract and creative thoughts. This is whole what we are made of, and chidren even more.

A great book for developing this skills and symbolic play.

The story toughts us about frienship, how a peer can transform reality much better than just one. Here, blue and yellow get along with each other and make the green color, a friend, apart of themselves, but yet a third one.

A perfect example of less is more.

The Invisible Boy

Trudy Ludwig

Illustrated by Patrice Barton

Not even Miss Carlotti notices Brian, The Invisible Boy, in the classroom. This is a perfect book to work with children kindness and compassion, watching how Brian begins to turn visible to everyones eyes, specially to his own.

Ketchup on my Cornflakes?

Nick Sharratt

 

This books allows to play with it, turning the pages in order to create new and disgusting questions that children will find amusing, and will help them to improve food vocabulary and Reading skills

Little Red Riding Hood

 

I´ve work a lot in this blog with the Revolting Rhyme, so here´s the regular version.