This pack contains resources, activities, display material and games that will make it easy for your students to practice oral language skills! Included in this pack: Teacher information: Curriculum Overview of Storytelling and Anecdotes 5 days of lesson plans Blank planning grids (for informal lesson planning) Overview of Activity Plans Fiction Activity 1 – Story Openings and Features of Storytelling and Anecdotes Fiction Activity 2 – Circle Story Starters Non -Fiction Activity 3 – News Headlines Non -Fiction Activity 4 – Random Object Story Revision Planning Grids Positive Note Home Checklists for Students Checklists for Teachers Display Headings Teacher observation checklists I LOVE seeing my products in action! If you take a photo of one of my resources in your classroom I'd like to feature it on my Instagram. You can either tag me on Instagram @classofcreativity OR e-mail me the pictures at [email protected] Thank you so much! I would love if you could leave feedback on this resource, after all, TPT is about supporting fellow teachers! Happy teaching!
Using sequencing cards in your Montessori environment helps children understand that stories follow a logical progression, while at the same time building on their oral storytelling skills.
The Oral Storytelling Worksheet is a great way for students to learn and retell classic stories. This resource is perfect for helping students to understand and remember important ideas from the story. Oral Storytelling Worksheet
Give the Most Awesomest Presentation Ever! When giving a presentation, most people will completely forget what you said and what you did, but they won't forget how you made them feel during that presentation. If
Even if children cannot yet write, they can still learn to tell stories. This is why oral storytelling practice is such a valuable tool for our emergent writers! Learning to tell stories with detail will
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Children discover all the details they need to tell their own amazing stories—every time they reach inside our mystery box! Perfect for oral language practice, boosting vocabulary, exploring story elements and more, our ready-to-use box contains 45 color-coded prompts, each with cute illustrations of characters, locations and situations that help young storytellers get started. Children just reach in and pull out a card from each compartment of the box, then use the who, what and where they selected to tell their own original story! Box measures 15" in length.
Using sequencing cards in your Montessori environment helps children understand that stories follow a logical progression, while at the same time building on their oral storytelling skills.
Oral Language Story Sticks - A handy tool for explicit oral language teaching! Help your students develop their language and oral story telling skills with these character, setting and event/problem prompts. Your students' vocabulary will be expanding effortlessly! What's included: ⭐Preparation instructions ⭐Ideas for use ⭐30 character prompts ⭐30 setting prompts ⭐30 event/problem prompts Once these are made, they will be a tool you use year after year. We would love to see how you decide to set these up in your classroom and we'd love to connect with you! Please find and follow us on Instagram Thanks for stopping by! Kate and Clare
'Finalist' in the PROSE Award (2022) for Language & Linguistics Awarded Honors at the Storytelling World Awards 2022 Linking the ongoing ecological crisis with contemporary conditions of alienation and disenchantment in modern society, this book investigates the capacity of oral storytelling to reconnect people to the natural world and enchant and renew their experience of nature, place and their own existence in the world. Anthony Nanson offers an in-depth examination of how a diverse ecosystem of oral stories and the dynamics of storytelling as an activity can catalyse different kinds of conversation and motivation, helping us resist the discourse of powerful vested interests. Detailed analysis of traditional, true-life and fictional stories shows how spoken narrative language can imbue landscapes, creatures and experiences with enchantment and mediate between the inner world of consciousness and outer world of ecology and community. A pioneering ecolinguistic and ecocritical study of oral storytelling in the modern world, Storytelling and Ecology offers insight into the ways that sharing stories in each other's embodied presence can open up spaces for transformation in our relationships with the ecological world around us.
Digital storytelling is an excellent way to foster student creativity and give them authentic experiences with reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Today I’m sharing my favorite digital storytelling apps that I’ve used in my classroom. Toontastic (free) allows students to animate their own stories while practicing key story elements. The app guides them through choosing their setting, conflict, challenge, climax, and resolution. Once students are ready to record, they can move the characters around on the screen and it will record both their animations and voices as a cartoon video. Storykit (free) lets students create a digital storybook with text, audio, and photos/illustrations. Students can either upload photos from their camera roll or draw their own illustrations using the app’s drawing feature. This app has been a favorite choice during Daily 5 writing, and we’ve also used it to publish various nonfiction research projects. Book Creator ($4.99) is hands-down my favorite app for creating any kind of eBook. Students can add videos, music, and even record their voices. Book Creator has lots of color and font options as well as a pen tool to draw and annotate. We’ve used this versatile app to publish nonfiction research projects, fairy tales, how-to books, collaborative stories, and even math explanations. In the picture below, you can see how my student has embedded a YouTube video to demonstrate how wild dogs hunt. Telestory (free) allows students to create, direct, and star in their own TV shows. There are a variety of fun themes, costumes, and special effects to choose from and you can really let students run wild with their imaginations. The picture below shows one of my students recording a news broadcast for her classmates. Chatterpix (free) can make any photo talk. After uploading a photo, you simply draw a line to make a mouth and then record your voice. With this app, the possibilities are endless and can range from silly to informative. We used this last year to make characters from fairy tales talk and explain their point of view on what happened in the story. Below you can see how one of my students embedded a Chatterpix into his eBook on penguins. (I really wish I would have saved a recording of this video!) Storybird (free) is an iPad-friendly website that allows students to create stories using beautiful and intriguing artwork. Students can search by themes (or “tags”) to find and drag in pictures. Then they begin sequencing and typing their story to go along with the pictures. Even my most reluctant writers love this site because they are so fascinated by the artwork. My favorite thing about Storybird is that students can publish their books to our class account and comment on one another’s stories. Want more app recommendations? Click on any of the images below to check out dozens of apps reviewed by yours truly.:)
It’s been several months since I’ve written for Two Writing Teachers. In December my son was born, and I was on maternity leave until a few weeks ago. Then, in March I pushed aside all …
Celebrate Lunar New Year and build your child’s literacy with these four fun Lunar New Year games, story time activities, and crafts.
Help to support oral language in the homes of your students.
A bright, fun, engaging and tactile way for children to build their oral language skills!
Help to support oral language in the homes of your students.
Although the teaching of children’s oral language is critical to both their social development and academic success, the assessment of oral language development...
Read about me oral language development activities that incorporate narrative structure learning during play. Fun and functional!
Telling a story with a bag is a wonderful and easy storytelling language activity with kids!
How To Promote Rich Storytelling by Young Children | you clever monkey
Tops and Bottoms: A fun farming story about clever thinking and hard work. Students will learn to retell an engaging story through the use of listening and sequencing activities. Introduce young learners to oral storytelling with this engaging storytelling companion pack. This pack contains the written text and story map for teachers to tell in person, as well as a high-quality audio file for a ‘Listening to Reading’ station. Students construct a story-sequence wheel to use when listening along or retelling the story themselves. Incorporate these activities into an independent, small group and whole-class instruction- perfect for reading and writing stations! Listen, Sequence & Retell pack for Early Learners. Bear is lazy and rabbit is hard-working. The two agree to do business together farming Bear’s land. Rabbit will do all the work and Bear can sleep. They will split the harvest in half. Will Bear choose the top half of the crops or the bottom half? Clever rabbit gets what he needs to feed his family and teach Bear an important lesson. (This original adaptation is based on an adaptation by Janet Stevens.) INCLUDED IN THIS PACK (zip file containing a 17-page pdf file and audio file) 🌽Week-long teaching sequence 🌽Tops and Bottoms story text 🌽Visual Story Map (color and black & white) 🌽Audio Recording by a professional storyteller (8 min. story) 🌽Storytelling Wheel Sequencing Activity 🌽3 storytelling wheel cover designs 🌽2 sequencing designs (both offered in color and black & white) 🌽Retell the Story Worksheet in color 🌽Color in and retell the story worksheet
Need a proven way to help build students' reading skills and strategies is through oral language activities? Check out these Oral Language Activities. Provide your students with opportunities to practice oral language can help strengthen a student's ability to express thoughts, feelings, knowledge, and ideas. The Simple View of Reading (Gough and Tunmer, 1986) tells us that reading comprehension is the product of decoding and language comprehension. To build strong readers with solid reading comprehension, we need both decoding skills and language skills, which include strong oral language skills. Use this set of 75+ Oral Language Activities in your classroom to support your Pre-K through 1st grade learners!
Wordless picture books are one of the most versatile ways to work on oral language, storytelling, comprehension, and narrative writing. This curated list consists of over 200+ wordless picture book titles and includes suggested themes and topics for each book. The list has been divided and colour coded into 3 sections of complexity and can be used by classroom teachers, paraprofessionals, speech and language pathologists, and families for homeschool or general use. Stages of complexity: Simple - these books have a linear storyline, simple themes, and fewer pictures on the page Intermediate - these books may have a linear storyline but include more pictures on the page or slightly more in-depth concepts Complex - these books have a more complex storyline or theme with multiple pictures or extremely detailed images and the story length is longer
We have been doing some more exploring with story telling. I recently shared with you how to make story stones and this week, I had the pleasure of going on Indiana Fox 59 Morning News to share other ways to promote story telling. This week we told stories using a story
Add more oral language to your picture walks with these simple ideas.
How to use Blanks Levels Of Questioning to stimulate children’s oral language development in play and reading.
Story Spinners for Oral and Written stories in first grade and kindergarten.
Take a look at the speech and language goals you can target in speech therapy using The Lorax by Dr Seuss #childrensbooks #picturebooks #speechtherapy #drseuss
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Create your own set of We're Going on a Bear Hunt story stones! Character images and word wall cards included!
