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SCHOOL
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NUTRITION, HEALTH AND
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SUBMITTED TO:
MS.KATHLEEN KAY RODRIGUEZ

SUBMITTED BY:
MS.RIO ROSE S. CAJUCOM
TABLE OF CONTENTS

A. Story telling

B. Puppets

C. Big book
What is Storytelling?
Storytelling is used in design as a technique to get insight into users, build empathy
and access them emotionally. With stories, designers speak via Aristotle’s points of
plot, character, theme, diction, melody, décor and spectacle to increase the appeal
of what they offer and provide a solid understanding of the users.

Storytelling is as simple as reading a story from a book. If you don’t have that
much time, you can always share a story from memory, talk about your own
childhood, or even read out loud from your phone. There are innumerable
advantages of storytelling for kids, especially for preschoolers, kindergarten and
young children

Here are the top 10 benefits of storytelling for kids that you simply can’t
afford to miss out as a parent:

1. Instills Virtues In Your Child:

Children all over the world love listening to stories. They want to know more about
their favorite characters and often try to emulate them. By telling your child stories
that come with a meaningful message, you can definitely inculcate qualities like
wisdom, courage, honesty, etc. from an early age into your little one.

2. Makes Them Aware Of Their Own Culture And Roots:

Telling your children stories from your childhood and about various activities and
celebrations from your past will make them more familiar about the different
customs and traditions prevalent in your family. Sharing stories about various
family members will help them learn about their lineage better.

3. Enhances Verbal Proficiency:

Reading out stories to your children helps in making them acquainted with the
language as well as in learning new words and phrases. This is also a great way to
teach your child new words and pronunciation on a regular basis.

4. Improves Listening Skills:

Most children usually have a lesser attention span and find it difficult to
concentrate on something thing for long. Also, they end up talking more, rather
than listening. Storytelling for kids ensures that they are not only more attentive,
but are also keen to listen and understand.

5. Encourages Creativity And Imagination Power:

Listening to a story helps a child imagine the characters, places, plot etc. instead of
seeing it on a visual medium. This also enhances creativity, making them more
imaginative and open to ideas and free thinking.
6.  A Great Tool For Sharpening Memory:

By using certain smart ideas, you can use storytelling to help increase your child’s
memory. Once you have read out the story, you can ask him to repeat the same
after a few days. Alternatively, you can ask him to describe the story up till the
present. This is a fun way to increase his memory and encourage concentration.

7. Broadens Horizon:

Young children may not always be exposed to the different cultures and countries
of the world. Through the medium of storytelling, you can make him familiar
about the various places and cultures across the world. Try and include stories
from different countries and cultures to give your child a broader understanding of
the world.

8. Makes Academic Learning Easier:

Storytelling for children is a stepping stone for academic learning. Many children
have the habit of learning by rote, without understanding the subject. Storytelling,
as a regular activity, can help children to enjoy and better understand what they are
reading. This helps them in learning their subjects better. Sometimes, teaching
school subjects as an interesting story (example, a boring history lesson can be
turned into an interesting historical story) can help them understand better and fuel
curiosity.

9. Better Communication:

Sometimes, children are hesitant to ask a question, even though their mind is filled
with curiosity. Storytelling helps children in learning the art of asking the right
question. It also tells them how to strike a perfect conversation and makes them
more confident. Regular reading and listening can make them better orators too.

10. Helps To Face Difficult Situations With Ease:

Difficult situations can often end up leaving children feeling confused. Stories
about various characters facing difficult situations can help them understand this
concept better. Try and tell stories that teach children that pain and suffering are a
part of life as much as happiness and fun times are. The right stories can help your
child become well-equipped to face life and various situations.

Right Approach For Story Telling:

As much as storytelling is important, it is also important to make sure that it is
being told in the right way. The 7 points mentioned below will help you understand
these techniques and become a better storyteller:

 1. Length Of The Story:

A story should neither be too short nor too long. A short story might not be able to
deliver the right message, while a long one might become boring and uninteresting.
So, decide the length by keeping your audience in mind.
 2. Comfortable Setting:

Choose a comfortable space to read out the story. The place should create the
perfect mood and ambiance for storytelling.

3. A Proper Introduction:

If you are telling it from memory, let your child know where you heard the story or
who you heard it from. Tell them how it helped you and how you think it will
benefit your audience. Try to create an interest right from the start.

4. Proper Expressions:

While narrating a story, make sure to use proper hand gestures and facial
expressions. You can also make different sounds or ask your child to do so to make
storytelling as interesting as possible.

 5. Loud but Slow:

Make sure you speak loudly but at a slow pace. Your voice should be able to depict
the right kind of emotions as mentioned in the story. Vary your voice, tone, pitch
as per the requirement of the story and use pauses at appropriate places.

6.  Involve Your Children:

Try to involve your children by using various phrases or by asking them questions
like ‘Do you know?’ You can also ask them to find out the message conveyed
through the story, thereby making them more involved.

5 Best Storytelling Games for Kids:

The best ways to incorporate storytelling in family life is through games. Storytelling games help
you to know the rules of the story creation. They also add a lot of fun.

1. eeboo Tell Me a Story Creative Story Cards – Little Robot’s Mission:

It is a picture storytelling card game that is best for ages 3 and above. It is created
by popular children’s book Illustrator. Each set contains 36 story cards and
suggested activities.

The enlightening pictures will inspire the kids to make silly, remarkable and
suspenseful tales. Parents can play along with children or can create groups.

This game boosts creativity, literacy and communication skills for your tots. It
helps your kids communicate their thoughts when they are reading through the
cards. It also helps them sharpen their sequencing and planning skills.
2. The Storymatic Kids:

All you need to do is pick a few cards and to your surprise, you will read a story
taking shape. How you frame and tell is up to you.

You can make your child play individually or in groups. It is one of the perfect
storytelling games for parents, teachers, and early writers. It makes your kids listen
carefully, give their views and sharpens their creativity skills.

It is an ideal game for birthday parties, road trips, camping trips, classroom
activities and more.

3. Rory’s Story Cube:

It is a pocket-sized creative story game that provides hours of imaginative play for
all ages.

All you need to do is roll the cubes, and the illustrations will spark your
imagination. You can make your kid play the game individually or in groups.

The cubes feature pictures that involve mostly to travel adventures.

4. Tell Tale Fairy Tales:

It is another storytelling game for kids with 120 illustrations in detail. It includes
60 cards with 120 inspiring images and variation of 4 games for ages 5 and above.

It develops creativity, literacy and improves communications skills.

You can help you kid lay out a storyboard, build on another player’s tale and
improvise by picking cards randomly.

Storytelling Activities for Kids:

Storytelling activities help your kids connect with their creativity. The activities
are all about taking an idea, developing it and creating something that is sharable.
Let us check out some exciting activities for your kids.

1. Storytelling with Family Photos:

 Encouraging your child to tell stories is as simple as asking a natural

storyteller to narrate a story. Read out the ways on how you can use family
pictures to encourage storytelling.

 Glance through some pictures along with your kid and take turns narrating
stories about what you find. For instance, it can be a picture of her birth or a
picture that recounts a story about the night when there was a heavy
snowfall.

 You can even print some pictures of any fun occasion like a birthday
celebration, family vacation or any holiday trip and ask your child to arrange
the events in order.
  Show a picture of any event and ask your little one to make a story using the
clues.

 Let your kid pick 10 or fewer pictures and place them in chronological order
to create a story. It is interesting to watch what pictures they pick to narrate a
story.

2. Storytelling with Stamps:

 This activity would seriously add unlimited fun to the story writing. Stamps
are a great way to get your kids’ creativity flow, pencils move and smiles
grow.

 Firstly, you need to gather different sets of stamps – like the animal stamp
set, vehicles stamp set, flower stamp set, baby zoo animals stamp set and
more. Also, gather a Jumbo multi-color stamp pad and storytelling paper
that is perfect for illustrating stories.

 You can stamp out some pictures on the paper and ask your kid to write a
story depicting them. They can fill the stamps with extra colors and can add
details by drawing something handy in between the stampings.

 When they go wrong, you can correct their spellings and grammar so that
their skills improvise. It would be a super fun and sneaky learning along the
way.

Be Natural:
It is important to evolve your own style of storytelling. This will ensure that it does
not become monotonous for your child or for you. Enjoy what you are reading.

PUPPET
A puppet is an object, often resembling a human, animal or mythical figure that
is animated or manipulated by a person called a puppeteer. The puppeteer uses
movements of their hands, arms, or control devices such as rods or strings to move
the body, head, limbs, and in some cases the mouth and eyes of the puppet.

The History of puppets.

Puppetry is a very ancient art form, thought to have originated about 3000 years
ago. Puppets have been used since the earliest times to animate and communicate
the ideas and needs of human societies. Some historians claim that they pre-date
actors in theatre. There is evidence that they were used in Egypt as early as 2000
BC when string-operated figures of wood were manipulated to perform the action
of kneading bread. Wire controlled, articulated puppets made of clay and ivory
have also been found in Egyptian tombs. Hieroglyphs also describe "walking
statues" being used in Ancient Egyptian religious dramas. Puppetry was practiced

in Ancient Greece and the oldest written records of puppetry can be found in the
works of Herodotus and Xenophon, dating from the 5th century BC.

SIX DIFFERENT TYPES OF PUPPETS

 ROD PUPPETS

A rod puppet is manipulated with wooden or wire rods. Rod puppets can

sometimes have a complete working hinged mouth but many do not. A rod puppet
can have a fixed facial expression. Arms are usually a requirement as rods are
attached to them.

 SHADOW PUPPETS

Unlike other types of puppets, the shadow puppet itself is never seen in
performance, only the effect it creates. The performing shadow puppet is not just a
single object of wood or cardboard, but a collection of things working together.
However clever or beautiful the puppet shape, it's the puppet's combination with
light and a screen that makes its magical effect.

 HAND / GLOVE PUPPETS 

A hand puppet is a type of puppet that is controlled by the hand or hands that

occupies the interior of the puppet. Glove puppets are a variation of hand puppets. 

 MARIONETTE PUPPETS

 CARNIVAL PUPPETS

Carnival puppets (AKA body puppets) are usually designed to be part of a large

spectacle. These are often used in parades and demonstrations, and are at least the
size of a human and often much larger. One or more performers are required to
move the body and limbs. In parades, the appearance and personality of the person
inside is not relevant. 

 GIANT PUPPETS

Giant puppets are massive puppets that are used for parades, theatre, TV and more.
It is at least the size of a human or often much larger and can be constructed with
humans inside the puppet.  One or more performers are required to move the body
and limbs.
 
Definition
Big books
- Are large-size versions of children’s literature. While not every book
for preschoolers is available in a big book format, many are.
Everything about a big book is larger—illustrations, print, and overall
size.
- Teachers use them when reading aloud to a group because it is easy
for every child in the group to see the pictures and words.
- Big books are a great tool for helping children learn print concepts
and encouraging children to join in with familiar words and
predictable phrases.
- Big book read-aloud sessions help children understand left-to-right
and top-to-bottom sequences, the difference between pictures and
print, and concepts such as every book has a cover, title, pages,
author, and illustrator.

Kinds of Big Books

1. Animal Books like North American Mammals, Dogs or Fantastic
Animals •Cookbooks like foods of Egypt or Bayou Cooking. They often
have pictures of the area. Rita Hoppert, Cincinnati Public Schools Early
Childhood Education
2. Travel Books like Vietnam, Russia, Italy, etc. Look for Books about
Cincinnati and Ohio because the kids see their own neighborhood and
state. •History like History of Airplanes or Baseball, or 60 Years of Life
Magazine Rita Hoppert, Cincinnati Public Schools Early Childhood
Education
3. Art Books like Norman Rockwell, Picasso, or Great Impressionists
•Sports like Olympics, Basketball players or Great Sports Legends •Odd
Topics like Strange Automobiles, Christmas in America, Peaceable
Kingdom Rita Hoppert, Cincinnati Public Schools Early Childhood
Education

Guidelines in Making Big Books

1. Size • Half cartolina size

2. Characterization • Yes --- Bad Good • No --- Good Bad • X --- Death

3. Themes • The book should tell them what to do, not what not to do ( triggers
curiosity) • The book should not tell also what should not be • Supported by
puppets for further elaboration (optional)
4. Style • Chronological – sequential

5. Format • Interactive

6. Illustration • Gender sensitive – equal number of boys and girls in the story •
Realistic • Spreadsheet

7. Color • High frequency – stimulating

8. Handwriting • Manuscript type a. D’Nealian method (manuscript with slant) b.

Zaner-Bloser method (manuscript without slant) • Cursive type a. Palmer method
(cursive writing – introduced second half of G2)

9. Facial Expressions • Use real faces of children of the same race

10. Dialogues • Separated from mother paragraph

11. Indention • should be consistent • Drop caps are also used only at the beginning
of the story. Example: Once upon a time, in a faraway land, there lived a prince.
He was very cruel to his subjects. He never showed patience.

12. Picture – text ratio • 70% pictures • 30% words

13. Plot 1. Problem 2. Solution (realistic) 3. Change

14. Content • Subject Integration

15. Durability • tightly covered each page and has a wipe- clean finish

Developing concepts of print is an important part of the emergent literacy

process. The best thing about teaching concepts of print to young children is that
you don’t need any extra tools or supplies, you just need books!

What Are Concepts of Print?

The basic understandings of how books and print work are referred to as concepts
of print.

These print concepts include:

 Letters and words hold meaning

 Print is what we read
 Illustrations correspond to the print
 We read from left to right
 We read from top to bottom
 Return sweep – when we get to the end of a line on a page we return to the
next line and begin reading on the left again
 Books have a front, back, and an author
 Difference between a letter and a word
 Spaces between words
 Where to start reading
 One-to-One Correspondence – Print matches spoken words
  Punctuation

10 Ways to Develop Concepts of Print

1. Point to the words in books as you read-aloud to develop one-to-one

correspondence between spoken and written words.

2. Point out words, spaces, letters, lines of print, left to right, top to bottom,
direction of print during your morning message.

3. Use environmental print to make references to words, spaces, letters and lines of
print.

4. Have children suggest where the teacher should begin reading the words on the
page of a big book.

5. Count the words in a line of print or clap for each word spoken aloud can help
develop concept of a word.

6. Use student name cards and classroom labels to help children recognize words
that are most meaningful to them.

7. Use a variety of hands-on activities to develop an awareness of letters, e.g., play

with letter cars, magnetic letters, plastic letters and alphabet games.

8. Display an alphabet chart at children’s eye level and refer to it daily.

9. Provide both upper and lowercase magnetic letters of the alphabet for children to
use daily.

10. Invite each child to dictate a sentence. Write each child’s sentence on a
sentence strip twice. Cut one sentence into individual words and encourage
children to match words to the second sentence strip, specifically using “first
word,” “last word.”