Children Literature and Brainstorming

What´s a Brainstorming?

Brainstorming is a process for developing creative solutions to problems. 

Alex Faickney Osborn, an advertising manager, popularized the method in 1953 in his book, Applied Imagination. Ten years later, he proposed that teams could double their creative output  with brainstorming (Osborn, 1963).

Brainstorming works by focusing on a problem, and then deliberately coming up with as many solutions as possible and by pushing the ideas as far as possible. One of the reasons  it is so effective is that the brainstormers not only come up with new ideas in a session, 

but also spark off from associations with other people's ideas by developing and refining them.

Now choose one of these and please, write your reason and be creative with your mind map!!

http://www.eslflow.com/brainstorming.html

Lexical approach

The Lexical Approach in the classroom

In the lexical approach, classroom activities focus on identifying the putting together the ready-made language which fits the appropriate situation (called “chunking”). Research shows that language is far less original than we might think it is, and that most of the time speakers are drawing on a memory bank of stored phrases and natural sounding combinations of words to get their message across.

Activity:  Writing a brochure (approximately 50 minutes)

The next step is for you to  produce your  own short brochure individually, based on one of the earlier selections. If you enjoy this task possible follow-ups could include designing a web page for a local holiday resort or researching and  producing an article for a travel magazine. (the page given)

http://rinkworks.com/crazytales/c/o10.shtml

How to create our story!

My dear students, I want to show you this story, 
it was created by me. I want to invite you to create a new story, 
a remarkable one! 

That's pretty easy!, Let's work on it! 

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