Once upon a time Storytelling in the Primary

Once upon a time… Storytelling in the Primary Classroom TEYL, Week 9

Before Storytelling Activities • Aid comprehension • Create interest and enjoyment • Make the storytelling more meaningful • Encourage critical thinking

Capture their attention

Connect to prior knowledge and experience

Review language students have learned

What’s in the storytelling tin?

Activities during Storytelling • Check comprehension • Keep students’ interest • Allow students the chance to interact and practice using English

Q&A

Activities after Storytelling • To check comprehension of the story • Plenty of practice • All four language skills

Antonyms

Scavenger Hunt

Erasing Relay

Vocabulary Toss

Story retelling

3 little pigs – word mat

Deck of cards

Storytelling Rope

Storyboarding

Storytelling

New Vocabulary

Weather Riddle I can blow the air. I can mess your hair. I can bend the trees. I can blow the leaves. Who am I?

Weather Riddles I can ___________________. Who am I? Sun Wind Rain

Personalize it!

I am at my parents’ house. There are neighborhood kids sledding. It’s snowy and so cold. I’m wearing a hat, coat, gloves, and boots. I am shoveling my parents’ sidewalk.

Write a poem! Take away the subject and verb. At at mymy parents’ house. I am parents’ house. kids sledding. There. Neighborhood are neighborhood kids sledding. Snowy It’s snowyand andsosocold. Hat, coat, and boots. I’m wearing a hat, gloves, coat, gloves, and boots. Shoveling mymy parents’ sidewalk. I am shoveling parents’ sidewalk.

Weather Mobile

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