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When I was in first grade I usually got involved with one big problem: Children don´t know how to grab a pencil!!! To deal with this problem I had tried different strategies (a compile of them is often recommended) and I used one that brought me lot of satisfaction.  This "booklet" prepared for the students try to make an effort on focusing in aspects like grabbing the pencil, direction of letters (pre-writing), pressure needed when writing... I didn’t want to do just a worksheet for the students to do by themselves. I want them to know how to grab a pencil, how hard they have to press when writing and how they have to complete each line. When I use these activities I always use a tambourine but you can also clap to show them when they have to do a line. Why? You must ask yourselves… Because as I told you this product has been made to teach them how to write. I have seen a lot of first graders grabbing a pen in a wrong way and I think it is essential to show an...

On April 23rd we celebrate The World Book Day . The connection between 23 April and books was first made in 1923 by booksellers in Spain as a way to honor the author Miguel de Cervantes , who died on this date. In 1995 UNESCO decided that the World Book and Copyright Day would be celebrated on 23 April, as the date is also the anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega , as well as that of the birth or death of several other prominent authors. In case you want to buy some books in Spanish these are the 10 (I had to do 12!) top series and books for children between 7 and 12 years old in Spain: 1. "Aventuras en..." Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer whose books have been among the world's best-sellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies. Blyton's books are still enormously popular, and have been translated into almost 90 languages. She is also the a...