Once upon a time. ' Érase una vez'.

Los objetivos del proyecto son la creación de cuentos para el aula de idioma y conjugar diferentes técnicas plásticas.Esto se basa en: 1) Dar la palabra a los alumnos, haciendo del cuento un elemento de expresión y comunicación activos. 2) Crear en el aula de idiomas textos para el 'Rincon de Lectura'. 3) Recrear los cuentos con diversas modalidades plásticas para que inciten a su descubrimiento y disfrute. 4) Relacionar dichos textos con los centros de interés de la etapa, de modo que se refuerce la interdisciplinariedad. 5) Crear cuentos con múltiples fines: libros para dramatizar, para cantar, para contar, para regalar etc. 6) Aumentar la autoestima y la autoevaluación, que el alumno se sienta capacitado para escribir cuentos y disfrute con ello. 7) Desarrollar el vocabulario, expresividad y comunicación. 8) Conocer la personalidad de los alumnos, en la selección de colores, precisión, minuciosidad, descuido, timidez, interés etc. El contenido del proyecto es 1- El cuento como elemento de evasión y disfrute. 2- El cuento sin final o con varios finales. 3- El cuento para ser dramatizado. 4- Yo soy el protagonista. 5- Cuento musical. 6- Cuento colectivo, se pretende crear un cuento más o menos mensualmente..

Once upon a time : using stories in language classroom. 'Érase una vez : utilizando historias en la clase de idioma'.

El trabajo recoge una serie de narraciones y cuentos en lengua inglesa que sirve a los profesores como fuente para programar actividades con los alumnos (desde los niveles iniciales hasta los avanzados dentro de la educación secundaria). Las técnicas descritas en el libro se proponen mejorar la expresión oral, practicar gramática y sobre todo conocer el lenguaje coloquial. Los autores sugieren diferentes posibilidades de tratamiento de la narración como herramienta para desarrollar las habilidades de comprensión y expresión oral. A continuación hay una serie de actividades desarrolladas tomando como base una historia y sus posibilidades de explotación. También ofrece un repertorio de posibles historias para trabajar en el aula.

Once upon a time.

Es por la mañana temprano, el día parece bastante aburrido para un niño que vive en el centro del país, solamente tiene la compañía de mamá y el gato. No ocurre nada, no viene nadie, excepto Ricitos de Oro, los tres cerditos, el lobo y Caperucita.

Once upon a time, there was a pulchritudinous princess…: the role of word definitions and multiple story contexts in children’s learning of difficult vocabulary

The close relationship between children’s vocabulary size and their later academic success has led researchers to explore how vocabulary development might be promoted during the early school years. We describe a study that explored the effectiveness of naturalistic classroom storytelling as an instrument for teaching new vocabulary to six- to nine-year-old children. We examined whether learning was facilitated by encountering new words in single versus multiple story contexts, or by the provision of age-appropriate definitions of words as they were encountered. Results showed that encountering words in stories on three occasions led to significant gains in word knowledge in children of all ages and abilities, and that learning was further enhanced across the board when teachers elaborated on the new words’ meanings by providing dictionary definitions. Our findings clarify how classroom storytelling activities can be a highly effective means of promoting vocabulary development.

Once upon a time, there was a fabulous funambulist: What children learn about the “high-level” vocabulary they encounter while listening to stories

Previous research has shown that listening to stories supports vocabulary growth in preschool and school-aged children and that lexical entries for even very difficult or rare words can be established if these are defined when they are first introduced. However, little is known about the nature of the lexical representations children form for the words they encounter while listening to stories, or whether these are sufficiently robust to support the child’s own use of such ‘high-level’ vocabulary. This study explored these questions by administering multiple assessments of children’s knowledge about a set of newly-acquired vocabulary. Four- and 6-year-old children were introduced to nine difficult new words (including nouns, verbs and adjectives) through three exposures to a story read by their class teacher. The story included a definition of each new word at its first encounter. Learning of the target vocabulary was assessed by means of two tests of semantic understanding – a forced choice picture-selection task and a definition production task – and a grammaticality judgment task, which asked children to choose between a syntactically-appropriate and syntactically-inappropriate usage of the word. Children in both age groups selected the correct pictorial representation and provided an appropriate definition for the target words in all three word classes significantly more often than they did for a matched set of non-exposed control words. However, only the older group was able to identify the syntactically-appropriate sentence frames in the grammaticality judgment task. Further analyses elucidate some of the components of the lexical representations children lay down when they hear difficult new vocabulary in stories and how different tests of word knowledge might overlap in their assessment of these components.

Once upon a time: children's literature and mathematics

What was your favourite book as a child? Remember the joy of reading it over and over again until the pages were worn and the corners curled. Have you thought about introducing your favourite book into a mathematics classroom? Utilising books in mathematics can engage and benefit every child in your class. Building on children’s wonder of literature can enhance their experience in mathematics. Building on children’s wonder of mathematics can enhance their experience of literature. In this paper we present the joy and value of employing children’s literature in the middle to upper primary mathematics classroom supported with engaging tasks that will have your students noticing maths in every story they read.

Once Upon a Time in Therapy: Crafting Therapeutic Narratives to Help Familiarize Children with the Therapeutic Process.

Young children often harbor misconceptions about psychotherapy and the role of psychologists. These misconceptions are ignited by rumors and misinformation that are provided to the child by a variety of sources and can compromise both the effectiveness of therapy and the therapeutic dyad. In this paper we explore how recent trends in patient engagement in child psychotherapy, cultural dynamics between patients and practitioners, and children's lack of knowledge surrounding mental health services can negatively impact therapy. Wednesday Afternoons with Dr. J. (WADJ) is a whimsical fictional therapeutic narrative created to inform children about aspects of the therapeutic process while providing adults with tangible structure surrounding how to talk to children about mental healthcare. The advantages of utilizing this narrative to prime children for therapy are discussed, as are methods for promoting the narrative to the greater community.

C'era una volta il doppiaggio - Analisi del doppiaggio della varietà diacronica nella versione spagnola del primo episodio della serie tv Once Upon A Time

L’argomento principale di questa tesi è il doppiaggio. Nel primo capitolo ci inoltriamo nel mondo della traduzione audiovisiva, concentrandoci sulla storia del doppiaggio e sui processi che servono per portare le opere in paesi dove non si parla la lingua originale dei film e delle serie tv. Il secondo capitolo introduce la serie tv americana targata ABC Once Upon A Time. Vengono presentati trama, personaggi, temi e alcuni dati sulla distribuzione della serie in Italia e in Spagna. Il terzo capitolo invece, ci porta nel pieno dell’analisi del doppiaggio in italiano e in spagnolo del primo episodio della serie attraverso la comparazione con l’originale inglese e lo studio della varietà diacronica attraverso le formule di cortesia, il lessico, la fraseologia, i sintagmi verbali e la morfologia. In conclusione, il nostro scopo è quello di dimostrare che la scelta traduttiva adottata dalla Spagna è diversa da quella italiana, quest’ultima più simile all’originale inglese.

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Once Upon a Misconception : Mark Juddery's Busted [A Review]

Forget Disney's timeless tales of rags-to-riches. Princesses are the most overrated public figures of all time. Apparently. Cinderella, after all, was 'a calculating, sinister go-getter' who murdered her step-mother at the instruction of a jealous governess (88). Sleeping Beauty was raped as she slept, woken not by the wet kiss of a handsome prince, but the kick and punch of twins stirring in her belly. Over the centuries, only the pea-detecting princess has remained herself: hedonistic, melodramatic and 'still perhaps the most pampered, precious wimp in the history of fairy tales' (88). There are, however, shards of truth to be salvaged from the fractured lives of these glassy-eyed women. After all, even Princess Mary worked in real estate.