Storytelling

Why?
To relax students and let them enjoy class
To develop attentiveness towards the teacher and the lesson / To increase the children’s attention span
To help students use their imagination
To introduce new things to children
To increase children’s vocabulary
To encourage dialogue and articulation (verbal skills)
To provide children with heroes and heroines as role models
To encourages children to love books and to want to learn to read for themselves
To develop the children’s sense of humor
To deliver a message / life lesson
To develop cultural perspective
To stimulate emotional literacy

Big Books & Language Focus

Book title / Focus
Who Said Red? / Colors
Phonics: rhyming words; alliteration
In the Small, Small Pond / Phonics: rhyming words; alliteration
Animal names
What I Like / Verbs: love, like, don’t like,hate
Phonics: rhyming words
Clocks and More Clocks / Telling the time
Rooms in a house
Quick as a Cricket / Adjectives
Animal names
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
/ Fruit / food names
Days of the week
Little Cloud / Shapes; changing shape
Animals; names of things around us
The Cat Barked? / Rhyming words
I wish I were a..
Only One / Numbers
Matching numbers with objects
Don’t Forget the Bacon! / Homonyms, homophones
Memory check!
Make your own story
Time to… / Daily activities
Time
Hello, Red Fox / Colors
Animals
Birthday party invitations

Storybook Activities

Before reading activities

Word web/ Keywords
Pictures
Predict the words/sentences/story
Picture-word matching
Predict with pictures /

Goals

Build motivation
Help Ss predict the gist (basic story)
Focus attention on words/grammar
Pre-teach key words/grammar

Whilereading activities

Pause and ask
Mime
Sentencesequence cards
‘Jump up!’ word cards
Guessand speak out
True-false activity /

Goals

Keep student interest
Help students understand
Encourage students to think ahead

Afterreading activities

Muddled sentences/words
Picture jigsaw reading
Retell with chant/song
Retell with opposites
Throw the ball (or pass the picture) & continue the story
Jump on the pictures
Finger puppet playrole-play
Fill in the blanks
Information gapfill
Find the mistakes
Clothes line story
Flowchart from keywords /

Goals

Check students understand
Consolidate(deepen/further)learning
To enjoy books!
To explore a subject further…

Easy More help Speaking Listening & watching Lesson/Activity

First

Last

Difficult Less Help Writing Listening/Reading only