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Tell it Again!

The Storytelling Handbook for

Primary English Language Teachers

Gail Ellis and Jean Brewster

© Mat Wright

British Council

ISBN 978-0-86355-723-1

First edition published as The Storytelling Handbook for Primary Teachers 1991 Second edition published as Tell it Again! The New

Storytelling Handbook for Primary Teachers 2002

This edition published 2014

Storytelling methodology © Gail Ellis and Jean Brewster

1991, 2002, 2014

Story notes for

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You

See?, My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Meg's Eggs, The Elephant and the Bad Baby and Jim and the Beanstalk © Gail Ellis; for The Kangaroo from Woolloomooloo © Mardi Michels; for Mr McGee

© Opal Dunn; for

The Clever Tortoise © Nayr Ibrahim;

for Something Else © Carol Read; for Funnybones and

Princess Smartypants © Jean Brewster

Illustrations by Kathy Baxendale and Celia Hart

All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers.

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Language Teachers by Gail Ellis and Jean Brewster

© British Council 2014, may be photocopied free of charge for classroom use by the purchasing individual or institution. This permission to copy does not extend to branches or additional schools of an institution. All other copying is subject to permission from the publisher.

Acknowledgements

The publishers make grateful acknowledgement to the following for permission to reproduce copyright material:

Page 32,

'Chatterbox' rhyme from Bingo Lingo, Helen

McGregor and Kaye Umansky, © A & C Black 1991;

page 146,

The Kangaroo from Woolloomooloo story,

text © Shortland Publications Ltd, 1985; page 79,

Monday, Tuesday, ...

song, © Eileen Sorley, 1991; page 83, 'The Butterfly' by Frank Collymore comes from Mini Beasties, a collection of poems selected by Michael Rosen, Puffin Books, 1991; page 101, Elephant Rhyme from This Little Puffin - Finger Plays and Nursery Rhymes, compiled by E. Matterson, 1969; page 106,

The Shopping

Game, adapted from Stepping Stones 2, J. Ashworth and J. Clark, Longman, 1989; page 112, 'We Always Try Our

Hardest' from

A Book of Rather Silly Verse and Pictures,

Colin McNaughton, Walker Books, 1987.

Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders in every case. The publishers would be interested to hear from any not acknowledged here.

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1 Tell it Again - The Storytelling Handbook for Primary English Language Teachers

© British Council 2014

Contents

Foreword

2

Preface 3

Introduction to the second edition

5

Part 1: Methodology 6

Chapter 1: Storytelling, an introduction 6

The development of storytelling

6

Reasons for using storybooks 6

Storybooks and learning

7

Storybooks and the syllabus

8

Chapter 2: Selecting storybooks 14

Authentic storybooks 14

Types of storybooks

14

Developing visual literacy 14

Criteria for selecting storybooks

14

Stories and language 16

Authentic storybooks and age-level suitability

16

Adapting stories 17

Features to look for in storybooks

18

Chapter 3: Using storybooks 21

Does each pupil require a copy of the storybook?

21
How many times should a story be read to the pupils? 21

Do children get bored if they hear the

story over and over again? 21

What happens to any work children produce?

21

Will I need to use the children's first language?

21

How can I help children to understand a story?

22

Is there a story-based methodology?

22

How can I plan story-based lessons?

23
What kind of outcomes does story-based work offer? 24

How can I integrate language work across

the curriculum? 25

What is storytelling?

25

Reading or telling stories?

25

How can I improve my storytelling skills?

25
What questions can I ask in story-based lessons? 27

How can I assess my skills as a storyteller?

27

How can I assess story-based work?

28

How can I involve parents in story-based work?

28Observation sheet 29

Chapter 4: Developing language-learning skills 31

Vocabulary 31

Grammar 33

Listening 34

Speaking 36

Pronunciation 37

Reading 39

Writing 41

Learning to learn

42

Learning about culture

46

Chapter 5: Classroom management 48

Organising storytelling 48

Using audio-visual aids

48

Using learning technologies 49

Creating an inclusive learning environment 52

Displaying children's work

55

Organising a book corner

55Part 2: Story notes 56

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

56

The Kangaroo from Woolloomooloo 63

My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes

71

Mr McGee

78

The Very Hungry Caterpillar 85

Meg's Eggs

93

The Clever Tortoise

101

The Elephant and the Bad Baby

110

Something Else

118

Funnybones 126

Princess Smartypants 134

Jim and the Beanstalk

141Part 3: Worksheets 149

Sheet music

201

References and further reading 204

Notes 206

2 Tell it Again - The Storytelling Handbook for Primary English Language Teachers

Foreword

Foreword © British Council 2014

Foreword

Storytelling. Its power must not be

forgotten. The telling of stories has been a vital mechanism ever since humans developed language - perhaps the most vital in transferring knowledge of all sorts.

The invention of writing, then printing, word

processing and home computers means that we now have many other methods.

But storytelling remains a powerful and

appealing tool. And these days, stories are not just for parents with children or journalists with readers. Good teachers have always known the power of stories in the classroom. Stories often hold a strange and magical quality that can interest and engage learners in a way that few other materials and methods have. While the telling of stories in class is often associated with primary-age children, the attraction of the story remains throughout life.quotesdbs_dbs7.pdfusesText_13

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