Mari Paz Arrabal is a bilingual teacher who coordinated a project where students wrote and illustrated their own bilingual stories. Over 10 sessions, first and second grade classes visited the library, chose a story to read together, drew illustrations, and then worked on writing and translating their own stories into English and Spanish. The stories were bound and displayed in the library for a celebration of books. Students were also cast in a play based on the English story "The Little Red Hen," which they performed at the end of the project to inaugurate the library.

1. Bilingual tale.Bilingual tale.

2. PRESENTATION.
My name is Mari Paz Arrabal. I am a bilingual project
coordinator and first-grade primary school teacher at CEIP San
Juan in Antequera.
This year besides participating in this activity, we took advantage
of the section of bilingual stories in our library. Then we, the
bilingual team, decided to create our own bilingual stories.
Each first and second cycle class-group will write and illustrate a
story.
This activity will develop over various class sessions and will
culminate in a theatrical representation of one of the bilingual
stories. It will serve as a way of inaugurating and celebrating our
library.
Below I will explain in detail the development of each class.

3. SESIÓN 1.
•We paid a visit to the library. Given that they are
first grade students, I began by showing them
the different sections that form part of the
library and ended by showing them the section
with bilingual stories. After browsing the books
available for their age group, we proceeded to
choose one of them. The majority of the group
chose the popular story, The Ugly Duckling. We
handed a book to each child and reviewed the
history of the story. We, the auxiliar and I,
followed it by a dramatic reading in English.

4. • (foto aux leyendo bibli.)

5. Session 2.
•
In the classroom, in small groups, each
child created a drawing of what they liked
most about the story and titled it.

6. Session3.
•
In this section, each
student shows his or
her illustration to
the rest of the
group. We created a
list of key English
vocabulary words
from the story. All
of the illustrations
are exhibited in the
classroom.

7. • ( foto del mural dibujos).
• foto de niños con Jade y dibujo de
pen pal

8. Session 4.
• In this section, we begin the second part of the
activity. This will consist in the beginning of the
class´ creation of its own original bilingual story.
• First grade students will create the story with
which they have already been working: The Ugly
Duckling.
• Second grade students will be given the option to
recreate a popular story or invent small
adventures for the school library’s mascot – the
small Torcalin. The students chose the second
option.

9. • foto del patito y
torcalin mascota.)

10. Session 5.
• Each first grade student will be assigned a
part of the story which they must
illustrate. They will also have to write a
small portion of the text, first in Spanish
and then, with the help of the auxiliar,
they will translate it into English. Thus,
each page will have its text written the
two languages.

11. • foto de paginas del cuento)

12. • The second grade students
will be given a copy of
Torcalin (copied on both
sides of the page). They
will colour their copy and
write the text in English on
one side and in Spanish on
the other. All this will be
done with the collaboration
and help of the teacher and
auxiliar.
• (foto niños de 2º
haciendo cuento)

13. Session 6 y 7.
Continuation of work begun in class 5.
Helping in the writing and correction
of grammatical and spelling errors.

14. Session 8.
The students will
show their work to
their classmates
and the stories are
now ready to be
spiral bound and
laminated, etc.

15. Session 9.
• The stories laminated and spiral
bound, will be carried to the library.
And in celebration of Book Day, they
will be exhibited together with other
stories written and illustrated by the
rest of the primary school students.

16. • (fotos de todos los cuentos.)

17. • The students were amazed to see
their own stories and those written
by their classmates.

18. •
• (Fotos de niños viendo los cuentos,
niños con la boca abierta,)Los cuentos elaborados por los alumnos de 3º y 4º han sido:
3º:
4º:

19. Session 10.
• Casting 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade
students for roles in the play
inspired by the English story:
• “THE LITTLE RED HEN”

20. Session 11 and
consecutive classes .
• Preparación de la obra y material
necesario para su representación que
tendrá lugar el día 7 de mayo.

22. THE LITTLE RED HEN
• Gran día de la puesta en escena.

27. THE END

28. •Finish