Wit & Wisdom
Roger Jenkins
storyteller
storyteller
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ACTIVITIES AFTER TELLING
Jumble 1: Type out key sentences on separate paper. Jumble up sheets. Students order correctly.
Jumble 2: Mix two stories via jumbled sentences. Groups sort and order; tell either story.
Display a series of key pictures. Class observe then close their eyes. You remove a picture. Kids open eyes. Which one? What part of the story is it? As you gradually remove all the pictures, the class tells all the story!
Make a map of the story – good for any tale with a journey.
Make a story circle. Start telling the story - toss a ball to one kid who continues until they toss the ball to someone else.
Describing People: brainstorm words to describe characters' emotional qualities (eg loyal, hardworking, brave, generous, deceitful) Which words fit the characters in this story?
Act out the story as you narrate it. Divide class into groups for different parts of the story. Kids & objects in room can be part of the story (eg cupboard = the mountain) This is often boisterous and great fun (a good contrast to the intensive listening of 1st telling) You will need to change your telling to make it more active (‘the trees tried to catch the wicked Queen as she passed between them.) Let class help decide the roles required - this provides a check on their level of understanding.
Charades: mime a sentence from the story.
Kids each write 3 sentences describing three key moments in the story. Cf with their neighbour.
Look at one character through key moments in the story. How did the woman feel when:
She put the gingerbread man in the oven? When he ran away?
When he wouldn’t stop? When he started talking to Mr Fox?
When fox ate him? When she made her next gingerbread man?
Conjecture about what’s not explained : Why did the Gingerbread man run away?
Discuss values / choices made by the characters: Was the Pied piper right to take revenge on the children? What could he have done instead?
Write a letter, complaint, proposal from one character to another.
Draw a book cover; or Wanted poster; or Design a Certificate;
Write a journal or A Day In The Life of a character (eg Big Bad Wolf's Diary)
Write a dialogue between two objects in the story - eg the poisoned apple and the basket.
Continue the story: what happened to the boy/the village after he cried wolf once too often?
Make up a story/poem out of one incident in the story
Invent new stories about two characters from different stories: eg Goldilocks and Robin Hood go on a picnic. What food? What happens?
In Conversation #1: Let the kids interview you as a character in the story (eg as Big Bad Wolf) ie hot-seating
In Conversation #2: Divide class into groups. Each grp is a character. Answer questions such as: Who am l? What did I do? How did I feel when...? Who did l meet? What am l like?
Story Scrabble: class copies a sentence from the story. Class write words (from the story!) around it as in Scrabble.
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