Storytelling with children handout


Storytelling with children

(handout)

Telling or reading aloud - what's better?

Reading aloud - advantages:

Reading aloud - disadvantages:

Telling - advantages

Telling - disadvantages

Preparing children for a story:

Activities before the story

Helping the children to understand the story

1. Choosing key new words

2. Simplifying the language

Helping the children to make the words their own

1. Memory game

2. Picture - word matching

3. Bingo

4. Drawing

5. Personal picture dictionary

6. Word webs

Helping the children to focus on the subject and to begin to predict what the story might be about

1. Front cover

2. Topics from pictures

3. Discuss

4. Give a story summary

Helping the children to predict the gist of the story and set them a task to do

1. Muddled pictures

2. Predicting

3. Gapped story

4. Ten key words

Activities during the story

Let the children listen and enjoy the story

Helping the children to understand the story

1. Use pictures

2. Use body language

3. Use sound effects

4. Mix mother tongue and English

5. Translate key words as you tell the story

Encourage the children to predict what is coming next

1. Stopping and asking

Invite a personal response

1. How would you feel?

2. What can you add?

Enable the children to show their understanding and to participate

1. Miming

2. Sequencing sentence cards or pictures

3. Drawing and colouring

4. Labelling a picture

5. Phrases you like (or dislike)

/for more advanced language learners; children listen to the story several times; they note

down words/phrases they like/dislike in the story; they write a poem making use of them;

or they are asked to repeat the words orally/;

Participating orally

1. Chorusing

/children repeat some sentences, make sound effects, etc/

2. True or false

Activities after the story

Showing understanding through traditional exercises

1. Children's comprehension questions

2. Muddled sentences or words

Showing understanding and retelling

1. Gap filling

2. Find the mistakes

3. Describe and identify

/T or a child draws a picture from the story; children describe it and guess which part of the

story it illustrates/;

4. Retelling the story

5. Remove the pictures

6. Jump on the pictures

7. Throw the ball and continue the story

8. Mixing two stories

9. Picture of a character

Helping children to show understanding and express themselves

1. Evaluating the story

Did you enjoy the story? very much/a bit/not much/not at all

Did you understand the story? most of it/a bit of it/not much of it/nothing

Which was the best part? when …..

Which was the worst part? when …..

Which was the funny part? when …..

Which was an exciting part? when …..

2. Acting out

Helping children to show their understanding and to create something

1. Retelling with opposites

2. Adding information

3. Drawing pictures

4. Making a book

5. Designing a book cover

6. Writing letters

7. Writing a journal

8. Writing and performing a dialogue

9. Continuing the story

10 . Changing the ending

11. Interviewing the protagonist

12. Retelling the story

/The children retell the story from a particular character's point of view or set the story in a

different time/

13. Favourite characters

/Children bring from home pictures of their favourite story characters; they talk about the

character/

Bibliography:

Sarah Phillips, Drama with Children; OUP

Sarah Phillips, Young Learners; OUP

Vanessa Reilly & Sheila M. Ward, Very Young Learners; OUP

Andrew Wright, Storytelling with Children; OUP

Andrew Wright, Creating Stories with Children; OUP



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