1. Acquisition,Development and
improvement of reading and
writing skills to be used in
literature.

2. Target learners
This virtual learning object is aimed
to English Literature Students (with
an advanced level in the English
language) who are willing to develop
and improve their comprehension
and production skills: Reading and
Writing.

3. Introduction
By means of following some basic steps, which
lead to a full understanding of a text, reading
will be an easier process through which the
student will get in contact with the English
literature which is one of the main goals of this
course.

4. This steps would be a single path to
ease the understanding of a text,
beginning with short stories, until getting to full
novels or famous writing pieces.

5. Moreover, writing skills will be developed by
means of having the students write short stories
and poems based on what they have learnt in
the reading process.

6. Welcome Message
With a short welcome message the user will be
encouraged to access the content of the site.

7. Are you willing to get
in contact with
English authors and
get to know their
astonishing world?

8. General Objective
To acquire, develop and improve reading and
writing skills through small texts of English
Literature such as poems and short stories.

9. Reading
Objectives
• To learn the vocabulary that is commonly used
in literature.
• To learn how to understand a complex text by
means of analyzing its context.

10. Writing
Objectives
• To use the new vocabulary acquired during
the reading session in order to write a short
story.
• To learn how to link ideas with specific linking
words which are commonly used in literature.

11. Why is it important to
develop reading and
writing skills?
In order to know the culture that encloses a
language, it is very important for the student
to get close to the literature witten in such
language. Through novels, short stories and
poems the reader will be able to understant
the context of the language he is studying.

12. Pedagogical
Model
The students will create and construct new
knowledge by means of writing
stories, poems, or argumentative texts.
Obviously, those constructs they produce will be
based on previous knowledge which must have
been acquired from reading English and
American authors.

13. Methodology
Reading process:
• Every Student will be free to choose an author
of his preference.
• The student will work on that specific author
throughout the semester; reading
poems, stories, essays or even novels
according to his interests.

14. Methodology
Writing process:
• The student will try to imitate the chosen
author writing; he will choose a short text and
will produce a similar one based on the
structure and the communicative purpose of
the author.
• The student will write a free text as a final
production.

15. Resources
• The main resource we will focus on will be
English Literature and its most representative
authors and writings. This resources could be
divided chronologically, by genres or by
countries.

16. Resources
Different Authors and stories. (Sort by
chronological order)
Renaissance:
*Chivalric/ medieval Romance.
*Sir Thomas More.
*Henry VIII.
*William Shakespeare.
XVII/XVIII C. Literature.

17. Resources
Romanticism XVIII to XIX C:
• Alexander Pope
• Lord Byron
• Samuel T. Coleridge
• William Wordsworth.

18. Resources
Victorian Literature XIX C.
• Oscar Wilde
• Thomas Hardy
• Charles Dickens
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Mark Twain
• William Blake

19. Resources
XX C Literature: Modernism
• T.S. Eliot
• Scott Fitzgerald
• Ernest Hemingway
• D.H. Lawrence
• Virginia Wool
• William Faulkner

20. Resources
English Literature sort by genre:
• Chivalric Romance
• Elizabethan Literature
• Shakespearean Tragedy
• Shakespearean Comedy
• Shakespearean Poetry
• XIX c. Poetry
• XIX c. Novel
• XX Existentialism
• Realism

21. Activities
• Getting to know the blog.
• Creating a Profile.
• Choosing an author.
• Biographical Researching.
• Reading Texts.
• Imitating authors.
• Producing texts.