Task 4 Objective.

Focus is on Story Telling (Observe, Plan, Do & Review) Tables 10a and 10b
Task 5: Table 8a for the First Story & Table 8b for the Second Story... Use same format twice!
Name of the story: The lost key.
Illustrator: Alex Brychta 1987.
Writer: Roderick Hunt.
Publisher: Oxford Reading Tree.
Pre-reading questions/activities:

what the title of story?

what do you think happens to the key?
Does anyone of you lost something from his things? and How do you feel about it?
How do you think the children felt when they lost the key?

While reading questions (as many as you want, please write them below):

What do you think will happen next?

What do you think will children do?
Do you want to know what happen next?

Post reading questions/activities :

How till me what the story about?

Can you give me a summary for the story?
What are you understand and learned from the story?

2. Instructions for Storytelling Observations: Complete one observation of your teacher reading a
story in English. Remember to ask your MST one week before.
Task 3: Table 7 - Observing a Story Telling session in the local UAE schools - English
Comment on:

What the MST does.

What the Children do. Comments

Pre-Reading
Activities
Describe how your
MST gets children
interested in the story
and wanting to hear /
read it.

The name of the book is

The lost key. Teacher
and children sit like
circle. She hold the
story and show them the
cover and asked many
question for student
about it and from topic
want them to imagine
what the story about.

Children interact with

teacher and answer her
question about the cover,
and till her their
imagination.

While- Reading
Activities
How your MST keeps
children interested
and actively involved.

Teacher when tilling the

story in interesting and
enjoyable ways it take
the student attention,
also his reaction when
was act what happen in
story, and if there
sentences for old man
talking she substitute
the sound like she a old
man.
Also, in the middle of
story she close the book
and let student think
what will happen next,
if make them more
attention.

All student listen to the

Whole the students sit
teacher, and if they not
quietly.
understand on word the
asked. Also they excited to
know what the end of
story.

Post-Reading
Activities
How your MST
consolidates the
storyline and explores
opportunities for
developing language,
topic related and
personal, social and
emotional issues.

When teacher till

students story she
develop their language
because when she say a
word they not
understanding she till
them the mean or help
them to find means
from the sentence.
In the end of story she
asked them about story
and gave a summary for
it, it help student also to
improve language and
teacher evaluate their
understanding.

In the end, two students

till us the summary about
story and what they learn,
and they discuss what
happened.

When teacher show them

the cover page, after she
asked them question, they
understand the book will
talk about key.

Teacher help the students

when they till the
summary, she correct
some words for them.