Children’s Literature and Literary Competence Development: a Didactic Proposal Using the Picture Book Amazing Grace in Primary Education

Resumen

This work pretends to highlight how we, as teachers, guide our students in making-meaning processes by using picture books because they are motivating and they help them achieve meaningful learning while enjoying the language, the content and literature in the English class. We introduce the picture book Amazing Grace, written by Mary Hoffman and illustrated by Caroline Binch, to our Primary School students in the English class. Moreover, we present —in order to help them improving their five literacy skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking and thinking) at the same time that they are developing their literary competence— the Reyes’ model for the development of Literary Competence. This is a triangular model that gives support to the idea that the reader establishes a dialogue with the text.