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FOUNDATION

This year the celebration of Book Week framed within the Reading Promotion Plan will
revolve around the story: “The Thief of Words” by Nathalie Minne from the Edelvives publishing
house.

“The Thief of Words” is a story that tells us about the beauty of the word; its value, its use,
its influence... but above all it is a story about relationships: love and friendship.

The author of the story: Nathalie Minne brings us closer to this tender and poetic story with
some simple illustrations made in collage and printing using black, red, blue and gray tones.

The main protagonist of the work is an enigmatic and lonely character: “At night when
the moon lights the way, the word thief leaves with all his equipment and heads to the
city. There, tracking the voices and the lights, without anyone seeing him, he climbs the
roofs. The harvest begins…”

The aim was to give this project an interdisciplinary character: several areas of the
curriculum are involved and heterogeneous in terms of groupings, combining individual work,
work in small groups of different ages and work in large groups.

In planning the activities we have taken into account that they were of interest and
attractive to the students and that they broke with the “formal” framework of daily school work.

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Proposal

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ACTIVITIES

1. Lucubrating
2. Listening
3. Bottling Words
4. The Jars of the Families
5. Word Gymkhana
6. Word Thieves
7. Costumes and Bookmarks
8. Collage and Door Signs

“Lucubrating”

This activity is developed from the language area as one more activity of the
Quality Plan in which the center is immersed: “Basic Competence Improvement Plan”,
within the group of activities aimed at promoting the written competence of the
students. .

At first, the story is projected on the PDI in images but without text.

Once viewed, hypotheses are formulated about what they believe the plot of the
story may be. Special emphasis is placed on paying attention to the title and the main

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Given that written language skills are different depending on age, they are offered
different support with greater weight of images in the lower groups.

- 4th, 5th and 6th grades of Primary write the story based on a single image of the main
character of the story. ( Appendix 1)

- 2nd and 3rd grades write the story based on a sequence of images (Annex 2)

- 1st grade and Infants invent the story orally together, which will later be transcribed by
the teachers.

Once the stories are written, they are read aloud in class and the best ones are
selected by the students for each cycle.

These will be read to all the students of the center in a common event and they will be
awarded with a diploma (Annex 3) at the closing ceremony of Book Week.

"Listening"

The time has come to know the plot of the story.

We projected the story again in the PDI this time with the narration of it by the teachers.

We talked about the similarities and differences between the original plot and the creations
made by the students.
“BOTTLING

WORDS"

For this activity we need the collaboration of families, especially the youngest ones at the center.

It is about classifying words in jars, just as the protagonist of the story does.

We present to our students the categories of words that we have selected and with which we are
going to work throughout the week.

1) TRAVELING WORDS

2) PLAYFUL WORDS

3) MAGIC WORDS

4) HARD WORDS

5) PROHIBITED WORDS

We prepared some jars with the labels of the different categories of selected words.

During the course of the week, students will write a word from the corresponding category at
home daily.

Once all the students are gathered, each one of them will read us the word that they have
written, put it inside the jar that we have prepared and write it on the mural that we have made for
this purpose and that is part of the decoration of our library.
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As support for writing the word, we will provide you with a piece of cardboard of a specific color
for each category of words (Annex 4).

Additionally, with 2nd and 3rd cycle students we will work on different typologies of letters since
they will have to bring the word written in a different way every day.

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We will carry out this activity daily at the center level and it can be carried out in parallel
at the classroom level from the different subjects with categories of words referring to
the contents of the topics on which the students are working. So we can create the jar of
foreign words for English, the Environmental Knowledge jar with conceptual words that
they are working with, the jar with the names of the characters from the stories that are
read during the week in Preschool, the jar of Physical Education with words related to
sports and as many variants as are deemed appropriate.

THE JARS OF THE

FAMILIES

With this activity we intend to directly involve all families in the

celebration of Book Week.

It is about each family searching for and agreeing on their

favorite words.

week that this project takes place. Once written in a jar. Each
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papers, put in the jar family is provided with a label to stick on.
(annex 5)

On Friday, each student brings their jar and shares their family's words with the
rest of their classmates.
GYMNKANA OF WORDS

To carry out the gymnkana we will divide all the students of the center into five groups in
such a way that in each group there are children of all ages in order to encourage teamwork and
the participation of the little ones.

ACTIVITY 1

Each group is assigned one of the categories of words worked on during the week.

The idea is that in a given time, they write on a template provided to them (Annex 6) the
greatest number of words possible from the category they have been given.

Next they must cut them out and glue them forming a chain.

Each team is provided with: templates, tape and a dictionary. They will also be at your
disposal so that you can consult the jars of words that have been made in the “Bottling words”
activity.

ACTIVITY 2

Each group of participants is provided with a common bank with words that appear in the
story (annex 7).

These words are provided syllabically segmented.

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It is about joining as many words as possible during a certain time.

The team that manages to match the greatest number of words wins.

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In the event of a tie, the students involved will have to find the highest
number of words that rhyme with others given in a given time (Annex 8)

The winning team will be awarded a diploma (Annex 9)

 In each class there are two jars, one full of words from a category that has
previously been decided by everyone and of a certain color and another empty jar.

The categories and colors selected in each class are:

CHILDREN 3 AND 4 YEARS: GOLDEN STORY WORDS

5 YEARS AND FIRST PRIMARY: -WORDS OF DREAMS-PURPLE

2ND AND 3RD PRIMARY: MUSICAL WORDS- PINK

4th, 5th and 6th: WORDS FROM TEACHERS - BLACK

ENGLISH CLASS: TRICKY WORDS-RED

The activity consists of “stealing” words between classes. Each class, using tricks
and cunning, must try to steal words from other classes without being seen.

The words stolen by each class will be put in the empty jar and these become
“untouchable”.

If a thief is caught stealing, he must pay a fine: a word of his category-class.

Teachers will be faithful collaborators in the theft and custody of the words of their
class group.

At the end of the week the stolen words will be counted; to check which class has
been the best “word thief”.

The winning class in the theft of words will be awarded a diploma

(Annex 10).

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Creation by the Kindergarten and 1st Primary students of a mask to dress up as
the protagonist of the story.

Students in 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th will make a bookmark. (Annex 11)

COLLAGES AND LABELS

This activity is carried out from the Plastics area and consists of decorating the
classroom doors by making a sign and a collage based on the main character of the
story.

Each class will make the label of the category they have chosen for the theft of
words using any type of technique and font typology.

In addition, each student will be provided with a template with the drawing of the
Word Thief so that they can decorate it freely and which will later form part of a collage
that will be placed on the doors of each class (Annex 12).

All the activities developed will be part of the decoration and setting of the library
for this course.
ANNEXES
 EXHIBIT 1

THE THIEF OF WORDS

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