Storytelling

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Eleanor Watts. Storytelling

Oxford Basics series

Introduction

1 The bus won’t go

Activity 1 Board drawing during the telling

Activity 2 Making deliberate mistakes

Activity 3 Teaching global issues

2 The big pot

Activity 1 Using children’s suggestions

Activity 2 Role playing during the telling

Activity 3 Role playing after the telling

3 The balloon

Activity 1 Adapting a story for your class

Activity 2 Predicting the end of the story

Activity 3 Children telling the end of the story

4 Mr Morgan’s music shop

Activity 1 Using music and sound effects

Activity 2 Using maps and friezes

5 Arjuna and the clay bird

Activity 1 Chatting during the story

Activity 2 Using repeated patterns in the story

6 The hungry tiger

Activity 1 Using pre-prepared pictures, ordering pictures and sentences

Activity 2 Hot-seating and debating

7 The elves and the shoemaker

Activity 1 Using games for preparation

Activity 2 Asking questions – ‘Arms up!’

Activity 3 Using slates and mini-whiteboards

8 Jokes

Activity 1 Teaching vocabulary in advance

Activity 2 Adding children’s ideas

Activity 3 Focusing on phonics

9 The old woman at the graveyard gate

Activity 1 Learning a story-song by heart

Activity 2 Writing a group story (‘Consequences’)

Activity 3 Writing individual stories

10 The Wild Wood

Activity 1 Comprehension questions: matching words to meanings

Activity 2 Comprehension questions: gap fill

Activity 3 Comprehension questions: multiple choice

Activity 4 Comprehension questions: Open-ended answers

Acknowledgements

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Why tell stories?

In every society, adults tell children stories to teach them about life. Stories present us with situations that parallel our own. They help us to explore relationships, hopes, fears, and ideas at a safe distance from our own lives. As stories are essential to the learning of the mother tongue, they are also invaluable to children learning a second language. Here are a few reasons why:

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Children learn when they are having fun. Stories are not only enjoyable for themselves; they also give scope for role play, mime, craft-work, and games – all of which are natural ways for the child to learn.

Stories link well to topics and cross-curricular work

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