DIARY OF A WIMPY KID

LET'S ENGAGE OUR "OLDER" STUDENTS!

Today I bring you something really interesting, or at least to me and a lot of students between 8 and 12 years it seems. Nowadays we are more interested our students to be able to read and to improve their writing and spelling that they know a lot of knowledges.

It is a series of books called: Greg's Diary (in Spanish), The wimpy kid (in English)

First, Greg loves you leave one thing clear: this is not a diary. We already know what it says on the cover. And that Greg asked his mother SPECIFICALLY when he went to buy that, buy a notebook, did not have the label daily. Being almost adolescent can be very annoying. Nobody knows better than Greg Heffley, immersed in the harsh environment of the institute, where smallers guys who have not stuck lug have to share the halls with big boys already shave their selves twice daily.

In book one of this debut series, Greg is happy to have Rowley, his sidekick, along for the ride. But when Rowley's star starts to rise, Greg tries to use his best friend's newfound popularity to his own advantage, kicking off a chain of events that will test their friendship in hilarious fashion.

It's not a tipical book of literature but it's reading for children about 8 to 12 years old. 

Diary of a Wimpy one children's books engaging in good readers and encourages lazy, because the layout of text in page and the abundance of illustrations make it very attractive is. Hence Greg's adventures have become a favorite adventures of children worldwide. Critics worldwide have concluded that Jeff Kinney have created a modern and fun character that generates a reading addiction.

THE GLOSSARY WE CAN TEACH: 

Wimpy kid: Someone weak, not striking, low physical strength among other things.

Sarcastic:  Characterized by making fun of something or irony.

Humiliate:To cause a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; embarrass.

Degrade: To lower in character or quality; insult.

Dignity:  Self-respect or esteem.

Promotion:  Encouragement or advancement.

Confer: To consult together; compare opinions.

Hassle: To bother or annoy.

Blubbering: Weeping noisily and without restraint.

Satisfy: Full of desires, needs and demands.

THE MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES IN THIS BOOK:  Linguistic, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal.


PRE-TELLING: 

First of all, we are going to talk about feelings, wich vocabulary they known than: sad, happy, angry, envious and other basic words. When each of class has expressed and we have checked and found the level of vocabulary, we will ask them why we were speaking  today of feelings.
We will present the book and tell them that before reading it will work a number of vocabulary words very present and representative of the book. And work the pronunciation and words with a few games on the touch screen board using the new ITC's. With this website:

Games to practice vocabulary

TELLING:

If you don't know anything about the story you can know something with the author of the books.

POST-TELLING:

For the post telling a very innovative activity with the help of ITC'S and that our students will like it much, but if the teacher performed and explained properly. Is about making a video for class, creating groups, each group has to  invented a scene and tell you want to do on daily greg (but with other avatars) and all the scenes will gather, do you have a logical and so will form a chapter for the book .


Students begin the scenes video from performing the teacher.

An example and the first scene for the students to continue the invented story is:

The first video done. They have to continue this story

 

HOPE YOU LIKED THIS NEW WAY TO TEACH, AND USING ITC'S

REMEMBER THE FUTURE IS BEGINING LET'S GIVE US AN OPPORTUNITY TO ITC'S

Ester C.