Using a story-book

AGE All

TIME Variable

AIMS Language: listening, speaking, vocabulary

Other: introduction to books, learning to follow a story

DESCRIPTION The children listen to a story then dramatize it or draw a picture or

make a picture book.

MATERIALS The book (You could use a Big Book or a Classic Tales Reader).

PREPARATION Read the book before the lesson and make sure you know it well.

IN CLASS 1 Show the children the pictures in the book and tell them the key
words. If the children know the story, let them tell you what they
know about it. Give them a chance to speak and then ask
questions such as: How do we say in English? Then supply the
word.
2 Read the story, pointing to the pictures and dramatizing it as
much as possible.
3 Tell the story again, getting the children to act it out while you tell
it. Encourage them to use any repeated phrases or easily
remembered dialogue.

FOLLOW-UP 1 Get the children to draw scenes from the story. Pin them up on the
classroom wall or make a book out of them. (For details on how to
make books, see Creating Stories with Children by Andrew Wright
OUP.)

FOLLOW-UP 2 In another lesson tell the story again. Encourage the children to
contribute as much as possible with words and actions. Pause from
time to time to elicit words and ask what happened next.

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