Gianni Rodari, Gramática de la fantasía

How to develop children´s imagination? Rodari wrote 44 chapters to explain this question. The idea of the book is to help children to play with their imagination through games.

He wrote about different techniques to hvae fun while learning and developing creativity, for instance, "el binomio fantástico", which means that you cannot write a story with one word, you need two.

A word has different meaning and interpretation and he developed this idea during the first chapters. What words hide behind the letters?

It is possible to have an education with creativity and the teacher must encourage students to create.

You can use binomio fantastico, el juego del cuentacuentos, etc, different resources.

Any situation related to each child must be an excuse to invent and create a story.

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