Hi there !!!

TimeToast has been quite a discovery, both for me and for my students, they simply love the final aspect of their timelines. I'm trying to use it to help them organize their ideas in a chronological sequence, which at the age of 12 is not as easy as we might think. Since my students are just 12 years old, instead of making them summarize a literary text, I have asked them to make a timeline of someone they admire, a football player, a singer, a youtuber,an influencer...  I taught them how to do it by creating one myself in class, right in front of them: https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/2437107 I helped them create their own accounts (one for each 5 students group) and guiding them through the firsts steps. My idea is that once they are familiarized with this tool, start using it with texts. The problems they are facing are mainly technical, most of my students don't have a computer at home or have to share it with brothers or parents.

Most of the people in the pictures, with the possible exception of picture #4, are reading for pleasure, what’s defined as extensive reading; they are reading what they want, when they want and where they want, reading for the sake of reading. I would say all of them, with the possible exception of the picture of students in class, the dominant feeling at the moment could be peace of mind, a travel inside, a step into a different level of consciousness a new world, the world depicted in that narrative.  At least, those are my feelings when I read, mainly when reading in my mother tongue, Spanish. If I had to choose among different literary genres, I would probably choose either history books or crime novels, no matter the language they are written, Spanish or English. However, depending on my mood, sometimes I read other genres like science fiction, paperbacks or even poetry, and in this last case, I definitely choose Spanish, even though I consider myself close to bilinguism, the ...