Children enjoy listening to stories.Storybooks can provide them the starting point for a wide variety of of related language and learning activities.

-Stories are motivating, challenging and fun and can help develop positive attitudes. They can create a desire to continue learning.

- Children can become personally involve in a story as they identify with the characters and try to interpret the narrative illustrations. 

-Linking fantasy and imagination with the child´s real world, they provide a way of enabling children to make sense of their everyday life and forge links between home and school.

-Listening to stories allows the teacher to introduce or revise vocabulary or structures, which help children to enrich their thinking and gradually their speech.

These are some of the reasons why is important to read with kids. In this blog, we will deal with different stories, books, methodologies, crafts, videos, websites... related to read and literacy. Let´s have fun among books.

The first book will be: 

THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR