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      [Fiction Express] The pedagogical foundation of Fiction Express

      Fiction Express is an educational platform that develops language competence in a global way, integrating reading, comprehension, reflection, and written and oral production.

      📖 Comprehension, reflection and production

      Language acquisition involves both reception and production. Between them lies a reflective and interactive process, where pupils think, analyse and decide how they will produce language.

      ✔️ Comprehending is not only reading at surface level, but also delving into meaning.
      ✔️ Reflecting means establishing connections and comparing with other contexts.
      ✔️ Producing means transforming what has been learned into writing, speaking and original creations.

      📚 Theoretical foundations

      Fiction Express integrates references from various pedagogical theories:

      • Bloom: learning progresses from understanding to analysing, evaluating and creating.

      • Vygotsky: the zone of proximal development allows moving from what is already known to what can be created.

      • Gagné: distinguishes between shallow and deep encoding, linking learning with different historical and social contexts.

      • Flavell: explains the process of metacognition, that is, reflecting on how we learn.

      🛠️ How Fiction Express approaches it

      The platform’s pedagogical pathway follows a progressive process:

      1. Read and participate in the story.

      2. Reinforce and recall with vocabulary and comprehension questions.

      3. Move from reception to construction, with analysis and evaluation activities.

      4. Create projects based on what has been learned, generating original productions.

      🎯 The aim is to integrate language competence, aligning with the new curriculum that promotes language learning in an integrated and contextualised way.

      🌟 Value proposition

      Fiction Express is built around three core pillars:

      • Motivating pupils: sparking interest in reading and language.

      • Providing teachers with resources: ready-to-use materials and assessment tools.

      • Ensuring impact and measuring results: monitoring reading progress and written and oral outputs.

      📌 The three Fiction Express solutions

      Fiction Express Starter

      ✔️ For early readers (6–9 years).
      ✔️ Interactive “Choose your own adventure” stories.
      ✔️ Initial comprehension and production exercises.
      ✔️ Multiple endings and levels adapted to the curriculum and pupil maturity.
      ✔️ Includes illustrations, pictograms, short questions and audio support.

      Fiction Express

      ✔️ For teenagers.
      ✔️ Literature by recognised authors.
      ✔️ Pupils vote in real time on how the plot continues.
      ✔️ Participate in forums with the author.
      ✔️ Includes quizzes, activities and analysis of reading and writing processes.

      Fiction Express ELT

      ✔️ For English as a second language.
      ✔️ Combines reading, vocabulary, grammar, listening and oral practice.
      ✔️ Includes self-correcting quizzes, listening tasks and oral practice.
      ✔️ Developed with teachers to adapt to different methodologies.

      🔄 Methodological flexibility

      The platform adapts to each teacher’s way of teaching, without imposing changes, but enriching their didactic approach with:
      ✔️ Roadmaps.
      ✔️ Support materials.
      ✔️ Automatic progress tracking.

      🎯 The goal is to reduce teacher workload and improve pupil performance.

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