Narrative and Poetry in Early Childhood Education
Code: 102001Credits: 6
| Degree programme | Type | Course |
|---|---|---|
| Early Childhood Education | OP | 4 |
Contact lecturer
- Name :
- Cristina Correro Iglesias
- Email :
- cristina.correro@uab.cat
Teaching staff
- Mercedes Lafarga Farrera
Group languages
You can consult this information at the end of the document.
Prerequisites
The student, as a ECE teacher must have a good oral and written command of Catalan and Spanish languages (level N2 from UAB exams or C2 of the Common European Framework of Reference). It is higlhly recommended to have attend to the course Didactics of the written language and the literature in children's education.
Objectives
The course Narrative and Poetry in Early Childhood Education provides an insight into the use of literature for Children from the first months until they can read alone. The course focuses especially on the development of the dinamisation of literacy and fictional literacy skills: to know the best literary products and floklore materials for this age (picturebooks, tales, nursery rhymes, language spelling games, oral narration). The course will also take into account different activities to improve the comprehension of picturebooks, poetry, rhymes, written narration, digital narration and visual representations. The aim of the course is to offer the students strong selection criteria tools for choosing books in different formats (printed and on screen). The course will also prepare the students to develop literary projects and to design literary activities on their own according to different educational objectives. The course it proposes as well a familiarization with a broad panorama of bibliographic and digital resources, both for children's production and sources to support the future teachers.
Learning outcomes
- Design activities that promote language skills in children.
- Using varied and appropriate techniques for literary, oral and written activities with children.
- Incorporating into narration and the dramatisation of texts the oral expression techniques that help children appreciate these.
- Understand oral tradition and folklore and know how they used in the education of children.
- Design practices that encourage reading and literacy for educational purposes.
- Know and use children's literature for educational goals at school.
- Frame the contents of the subject in the activities of infant education.
- Adequately express oneself orally and in writing, and master different techniques of narration, recitation and animation of texts for children.
- Know and appreciate the characteristics of audiovisual and digital literary products for children.
- Evaluate the interrelationships between social context, family and school in planning literary activities at school.
- Consider how gender stereotypes and roles impinge on the exercise of the profession.
Contents
SECTION A. Corpus and Support Sources
1. Familiarization with the current production that guarantees the literary quality in different formats and typologies for children aged between 0 and six years old (Pop-Up books, Playbooks, Ethnopoetic material, fairy tales, picturebooks, audiovisual, digital literature, and so on).
2. The use of digital and bibliographical sources for the corpus selection and the design of literary activities.
SECTION B. Workshop
3. Establishment of personal corpus according to each age range.
4. Knowledge how to design literary activities within a project, by choosing the educational objectives, areas of action, target and type of texts.
5. Acquiring Techniques and knowledge to design literary activities: storytelling workshop, expressive reading, drama, conversations, poetical games, literary projects, and so on.
Learning activities and methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autonomous | 85 | 3.4 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 11 |
| Supervised | 20 | 0.8 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 |
| Guided activities | 45 | 1.8 | 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 |
The methodology of the subject presupposes that the student is the protagonist in the process of teaching and learning. The course is based as a workshop form on various materials and a varied typology of group and individual activities that will allow students to carry out and experiment a wide range of classroom practices, through which the contents of the course will be developed. the subject
Students will also have to prepare autonomous and group activities outside the classroom as works of the subject in the regulated proportion for all subjects according to the number of credits.
It is higly recommended to have a good level in Catalan and Spanish language (C2 or equivalent).
Our teaching approach and assessment procedures may be altered if public health authorities impose new restrictions on public gatherings for COVID-19
Assessment
Continuous assessment activities
| Title | Weight | Hours | ECTS | Learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individual activity about picturebooks analysis (30%) | 30% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 |
| Literary Project for ECE | 40% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 |
| Individual activity: analysis of academic texts | 30% | 0 | 0 | 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 |
Continuous Assessment
The evaluation of the course will be split into the two major sections and that they must be passed independently (with a 5 over 10 each) so that they can make an average and derive in the final overall mark. Within each section, the evaluation will be carried out through the mechanisms and activities that are shown in the following grid:
- Two individual activities on the selection and analysis of picturebooks (30%) and academic texts (30%). These individual activities will be made during the period 2nd March until 1st June 2027.
- A Group literary project (40%) that will be made during the period from 25th May to 8th June 2027.
The date of reevaluation and resubmission of the assignments will be from 15th until 22th of June 2027.
The assessment will be carried out: (a) continuously throughout the course, and (b) by means of the final correction of the activities and works. Qualifications will be made public in the moodle within 20 days after delivery. The student who wishes to review the mark will have to do it in the two weeks after his communication in the tutorial hours of the teaching staff, included in the program. Copying and plagiarism of any kind will imply, in all cases, a zero in the whole course.
Participation, active listening and punctuality will be considered essential.
Attendance to face-to-face classes is mandatory: 80% attendance is the minimum to be entitled to the assessment; Otherwise, it will be considered not assessable. With this prior condition, the evaluation will be carried out through the evaluation activities described. We will ensure, on the other hand, that the texts delivered throughout the course as well as the final work are free of plagiarism; in the event that we detect plagiarism (through programs that detect it, for example) that work will be automatically rejected.
Students must refrain from using any typeof technologies, tools, or artificial intelligence systems—or others—that may involve fraud in the academic activities they carry out.
To pass the subject, all activities must bepresented and passed. No presentation, work, written activity or oral activity that does not show a good command of the Catalan language will be approved.
When it is considered that the student has not been able to provide sufficient evidence for assessment (60% or at least two tasks), the subject must be marked as not assessable. For example, if the academic texts or book analysis have not been submitted on time, or if this task does not meet the minimum quality standards.
The results of each one of the evaluations will be returned to the students within a maximum period of 20 days after delivery, and a review date will be offered within 10 days of its publication.
Unique and Single Assesment:
This course accepts unique assessment modalities. Hereby are the planned assignments:
- Elaboration of an individual literary criticism (25%)
- Elaboration of an individual poster (25%)
- Elaboration of a literay project (35%)
- Interview (15%)
All the assignments have to be submitted 8th of June 2027. To resubmite the assigments the same criteria as the continuous assigment will be maintained. The mark revision will be the same as the continuous assignment policies. The attendance to the course is compulsory by 80%.
Bibliography
REFERENCES
Bonnafé, M. (2008). Los libros, eso es bueno para los bebés. México: Océano.
Bosch, E. (2012). \"¿Cuántas palabras puede tener un álbum sin palabras?. Revista OCNOS, núm. 8, pp. 75-88.
Bosch, E. (2007). \"Hacia una definición de álbum\". Revista ANILIJ, núm- 5, pp. 25-46.
Chambers, A. (2007). ¿Quieres que te cuente un cuento? Una guía para narradores y cuentacuentos. Caracas: Banco del Libro.
Colomer, T. (2005). Andar entre libros. La lectura literaria en la escuela. México: FCE.
Correro, C.; Vilà, N. Molins, A. (2026). Col·lecció Si Fa Sol. Barcelona: Combel.
Correro, C.; Portell, J. (2023). Lectures que fan lectors. Vic: Eumo.
Correro, C.; Vilà, N. (2023). La poesia a les primeres edats. Inici d'un itinerari. Barcelona: Associació de Mestres Rosa Sensat.
Correro, C. (2018). Els llibres infantils al segle XXI. Tesi doctoral publicada a https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/tesis/2018/hdl_10803_665173/cci1de1.pdf
Correro, C.; Real, N. (2017). La Literatura a l'Educació Infantil. Barcelona: Col·lecció Infància. Associació de Mestres Rosa Sensat. ISBN 978-84-945290-6-1.
Correro, C.; Real, N. (2014). \"Literatura infantil digital 0-6. Present i futur\". Revista Faristol, número 79. Disponible en línia: http://www.clijcat.cat/faristol/paginas/detall_articles.php?recordID=294
Cormand, B.; Correro, C. (2018). \"Les guardes, un espai per a la creativitat\". Revista Faristol, núm. 87, pp. 16-19. Abril 2018. Disponible en línia: https://www.clijcat.cat/faristol/article-cercat/Les-guardes-un-espai-per-a-la-creativitat
Desclot, M. (2007). Poesies amb suc. Antologia de poesia per a infants. Barcelona: La Galera.
Desclot, M. \"Parlar de poesia amb infants\". Text escrit per a Gretel: http://literatura.gretel.cat/content/miquel-desclot.
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Lluch, G. (ed.) (2000). De la narrativa oral a la literatura per a infants. Invenció d'una tradició literària. Alzira: Bromera.
Molist, P. (2008). Dins del mirall. La literatura infantil explicada als adults. Barcelona: Graó.
Prats, M. (2002). \"La poesia per a infants: un gènere entre el folklore i l'obra d'autor\". Dins T. Colomer (ed.). La literatura infantil i juvenil catalana: un segle de canvis. Bellaterra: ICE-UAB, pp.45-56.
Real, N.; Correro, C. (2018). \"Valorar la literatura infantil digital: propuesta práctica pra los mediadores\". Revista Textura- ULBRA [Brasil], vol. 20, núm. 42, pp. 8-33, jan./abril. ISSN: 2358-0801.
ALTRES Recursos diversos i centres de documentació d'interès:
Selecció d'obres a la Revista Faristol del IBBY Cat/ Consell Català del Llibre Infantil i Juvenil: https://www.clijcat.cat/faristol/ i http://www.clijcat.cat/
Selecció d'obres El Garbell de l'Associació de Mestres Rosa Sensat (https://www.rosasensat.org/es/biblioteca/recursos/el-garbell/)
Selecció d'obres elaborades per Gretel: Pàgina de Literatura infantil de la UAB: www.gretel.cat
Selecció d'obres elaborades per Llibres al replà: www.llibresalrepla.cat
Contacontes:
Cos de lletra. http://cosdelletra.blogspot.com Blog del grup Cos de Lletra. Espectacles sobre poesia.
Hores del conte: n'ofereixen la majoria de biblioteques públiques i n'hi sol haver per a diverses franges d'edat.
Musiquetes.cat: recull de cançons infantils tradicionals per escoltar en xarxa, forma part d'un dels projectes de la Bressola de la Catalunya Nord:http://www.musiquetes.cat/canco/num/16.
Poesi@.com. http://www.edu365.cat/infantil/poesia/portada.htm: per a educació infantil amb poemes recitats, escrits i il·lustrats per temes i d'autors molt diversos.
Recull de webs de poesia per a infantil i primària: http://www.xtec.cat/crp-bages/html/poesia/poesia_pri1.htm
Samfaina de colors (2010). http://www.samfainadecolors.cat/ Espectacles basats en cançons tradicionals.
Una mà de contes: contes per veure i escoltar, que es poden triar a partir del tema, l'autor, l'il·lustrador, l'origen geogràfic... (http://www.unamadecontes.cat/).
XTEC, web del Departament d'Educació (http://www.xtec.cat/). En podem destacar l'apartat \"Escola oberta\", que inclou materials de tot tipus per a totes les assignatures i tots els nivells educatius ( http://www.xtec.cat/escola/index.htm).
Software
During the course we will use Zoom, Spotify and an office packeage.
Course groups and languages
The information provided is provisional until November 30. After this date, you will be able to consult the language of each group through this link. To access the information, you will need to enter the course CODE
| Type of teaching | Group | Language | Semester | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (TE) Theory | 1 | Catalan | second semester | afternoon |