Using storybooks To Teach Young Learners

The  Power    Of   Using   Storybooks    In   The    Classroom  .

What Method to use  ?

#  Shared  Reading

#  Reading  Aloud

#  Storytelling 

What  Kind   of  Stories    ?

#  Folktales

#  Fables

#  Fairy tales

#  Legends

#  Children   story   books

#   Pattern   books

Why  Do  We  Use  Stories   in   Teaching   Language   ?

*   Making  and  responding to stories is one way of being creative  .

*   To  associate the second  language with experience  of  feelings .

*   To  transform  foreign language to second  language  by  using  it  for  real  situation  .

*   One  of  the  best  way  to  develop fluency  skills .

*   Offer  an effective  way  of  introducing  new   language,  making  it  meaningful  and   memorable

*   Stories  have  a natural  role  to  play  in  cross  curriculum  work . (  arising  out  of stories  might  range from a study of food in the Hungry  Caterpillar  story  by  Eric  Carle  for Young  Learners  .)

    (   Andrew   Wright    )

Stories  That   I   Have    Covered   .

The  Very  Hungry   Caterpillar  .

By  Eric    Carle

The   Gruffalo  . By   Julia   Donaldson

We're  Going  On  A   Bear    Hunt   .

By   Michael   Rosen   &    Helen    Oxenbury

Goldilocks  and  The   Three    Bears   .

Five    Little    Ducks  .

Brown   bear ,  brown   bear  ,    What  do  you   see    ?

By    Eric      Carle

What   are  the   follow   up    activities     ?

#   Fill  in  gaps

#   Making  picture   story

#   Sequencing  story  event

#   Questions   and    answer

#   Telling   stories  with    action

#   Reader's  Threatre

#    Matching   story lines    to   pictures
#   Match  words  to  pictures  -   to describe 

                                                  Sequencing   story  event  using   pictures  .

Match   phrases    to   pictures  -  to  describe

                                       The     Classroom  scenario  

             Using   Shared   Reading   technique   to   introduced   a   story   to   Year   3   students .
Shared   reading    can  be  carried  out   every  where  as  long  as    the  place  is  comfortable  and  suitable  for   story telling   session .   It  can  be  done  inside   or    outside    the   classroom  depending   on the  teacher   students    agreement  .

                                                                        Storytelling

The  Learning  activities 

The colour wheel .  Suitable   for   remedial   students . Students  are  asked  to  match  the  phrases ( the cloth  pegs ) to  the pictures on  the   wheel  after  listening  to  the  story of  BROWN BEAR, BROWN BEAR , WHAT DO YOU SEE ?

Making  'Picture Story' by emphazing the Days of the Week  and  Food after listening to the story of THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR .

Group  activity where  the  students  are  asked  to  sequence the story line  by matching  it  to  the    pictures .  The   story   is  about    GOLDILOCKS AND THE   THREE   BEARS . 

I  love this  activity .  I'm using  TPR ( Total Physical Approach ) in this   story .  Students  are  guided  to  make  some physical  actions to describe every scene that they come across in the story . They will tell the story aloud in the group with  action .  I'm  using  the  story  of  WE'RE  GOING  ON A BEAR  HUNT  by  Michael  Rosen  .  This activity is best for practicing their  pronunciation, enunciation and to build  their self confidence  in  using  the target   language .