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How To Tell A Story

This document provides ideas for activities that can be done before, during, and after telling a story to students. Some suggestions for before the story are to activate prior knowledge, introduce characters, and set the scene using visual aids. While telling the story, teachers can mime, use gestures, and have students do actions, point, or predict what will happen. After the story, students can match elements, rewrite parts of the story, act it out, and retell it from different perspectives.

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How To Tell A Story

This document provides ideas for activities that can be done before, during, and after telling a story to students. Some suggestions for before the story are to activate prior knowledge, introduce characters, and set the scene using visual aids. While telling the story, teachers can mime, use gestures, and have students do actions, point, or predict what will happen. After the story, students can match elements, rewrite parts of the story, act it out, and retell it from different perspectives.

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Some ideas for before/while/after-story activities

BEFORE YOU TELL THE STORY

For content and language of story:

Content: Language:
*Elicit previous knowledge of this or similar *Pre-teach or activate vocab.
stories *Pre-teach or activate language (grammar,
*Children make predictions about the story functions)
*Teacher tells story in L1 *TPR
*Use of visuals: flashcards, pictures, posters *T draws on BB / rubs off
*Introduce characters *Ss draw (in books, on paper, etc.)
*Set scene, describe/elicit situation *Use of pictures / posters / flashcards
*Mime the story *Bingo

WHILE TELLING THE STORY

*Teacher mimes, uses gestures


*Listen and.... - order (pictures, words or language)
- hold up cards - classify
- do actions/mime - repeat,
- point - join in, all together, or in groups
- draw taking different parts.
- label - predict
- complete picture - complete
- complete table - correct
- match (pictures, words…)

*Stop before the end, pupils predict *Elicit story from pupils - through questions,
continuation or ending. or other cues.

AFTER TELLING THE STORY

*Matching who did/said what *Rewriting


*Matching words/ lines with pictures *Making a story book or poster/s
*Acting out *Ordering lines/words/pictures
*Retelling by teacher (with participation) *Spot the mistake (as T retells story)
*Retelling by pupils *Project work on topic
*Retelling from different perspective *Craftwork - making something,
*Continue story *Roleplay
*Filling in the gaps

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