{"id":20643,"date":"2022-02-08T11:02:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T11:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erickson.international\/en\/?page_id=20643"},"modified":"2022-02-11T14:58:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T14:58:52","slug":"little-english-explorers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.erickson.international\/en\/little-english-explorers\/","title":{"rendered":"Little English explorers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Little English explorers<\/h1>\n

Activities in English for preschool teachers and educators<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Younger children welcome contact with a new language with great enthusiasm and curiosity,<\/strong> especially if they are immersed in a stimulating and effective learning environment<\/strong>. With adequate training, the adult can become an expert in preschool language education<\/strong>, both in the processes that facilitate the child\u2019s development of the mother tongue<\/strong>, and in the discovery of other languages \u200b\u200bor expressive codes, verbal and non-verbal, available.<\/p>\n

Little English explorers <\/em>is a self-training tool, full of theoretical and methodological ideas and operational materials to prepare activities for children<\/strong> and offer a practical path: games, workshops and useful tools to develop a full awareness of one’s own skills<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The structure of the book<\/p>\n

Little English explorers <\/em>is composed of three sections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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KNOWING AND REFLECTING:
\n<\/strong>reflection tools to stimulate the reader to reflect on his\/her experience as a language learner<\/strong>, his\/her convictions and skills. It offers useful answers, based on scientific research, to the questions that many parents and educators ask themselves about language learning at an early age<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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PLAN AND ACT:
\n10 winning moves <\/strong>to effectively propose a foreign language to preschool children. This section offers operational tools to help put the plan into action<\/strong>, e.g. project material, child observation sheets, parent questionnaires, etc.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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EXPERIMENT:
\n8 Learning Units<\/strong> designed to introduce the English language<\/strong> in the main moments of the day in kindergarten<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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  • Arriving at the nursery<\/li>\n
  • Circle time<\/li>\n
  • Let\u2019s wash our hands. It\u2019s time to eat!<\/li>\n
  • It\u2019s garden time!<\/li>\n
  • Behave yourselves!<\/li>\n
  • Story time<\/li>\n
  • Let\u2019s take care of our planet<\/li>\n
  • Nora leaves the nursery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    The Adventures of Nora and Pip<\/em> – the illustrated story<\/p>\n

    The book is accompanied by an illustrated book<\/strong> with the stories of the nice characters Nora and Pip. It is structured with:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    Explanatory videos on how to conduct storytelling activities with children<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    Pages for adults, which contain the texts of the story in English<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    Large illustrated boards to show to children<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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    The book comes with various online resources which are useful for the teacher:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • a Vocabulary notebook in which to collect the words and phrases that you will encounter in the texts and that you did not know, so that you can reuse them;<\/li>\n
    • additional cards to those already present in the photocopiable pages;<\/li>\n
    • survey chart examples, routine charts and sorting charts;<\/li>\n
    • other materials to be printed;<\/li>\n
    • the audio of the dialogues (to be accessed with the corresponding QRcode);<\/li>\n
    • the videos with the narration of the stories (to be accessed with the corresponding QRcode).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Leaf through some selected pages from the book that have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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