READY TO TEACH

PLANNING STORY BASED LESSONS

 

As with other listening and reading activities, it can be helpful to plan srtory-based lessons following three stages (before,while and after) If you decide to use a story in an extended way over several lessons, then this is likely to be a cyclical process which starts by creating interest, motivation and attention in the story and predicting what it is about, followed by an initial telling of the story, related activities and followed up. 

 

 

The cycle can be extended through a combination of retellings of the story in a variety of ways, interspersed with a series of appropriately selected activities that lead children from an initial, global understanding of the story to using more and more of the language it contains. In some cases, the storytelling cycle may lead to children producing their own versions of the story or dramatizing some aspect of it in a role play.