Watercolour Project. Creativity in the teaching of children´s literature in English

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present the Watercolour Project carried out in the Faculty of Education of Ávila in the University of Salamanca in the frame of the subject Literature and Literacy studied by the students of the fourth year of the English Mención. In this project it is used a communicative, active and participative methodology where students are engaged and where the main aim is to promote creativity through different activities and workshops and different group dynamics such as individual work, pair work or small groups where different intelligences are developed. Students read chidren´s literature works, from fairy tales, illustrated books or non-fiction adapted texts which have to be acted in different ways, either narrating the story and supporting it with music, performing and changing some scenes from the book or acting the whole tale changing the end. In conclusion, it is sought that students express their creativity in several ways starting from the books. It is a really satisfactory experience because the student feels responsible of his own learning and is free to interpret the literary work and free to create his own artistic object.