This popular series addresses the needs of primary teachers, teacher trainers, and trainee teachers. Each book contains guidance for the teacher, 60 to 100 activities for primary children, and 20 photocopiable worksheets. The activities are explained clearly and simply, with aims, age range and level clearly laid out.
Creating Stories with Children
Original ideas and activities to help children tell and write stories in English. The book encourages creativity, confidence, and fluency and accuracy in spoken and written English.
Key Features
Offers a wide variety of original ideas and activities for helping children to tell and write stories in English.
Encourages creativity, confidence, and fluency and accuracy in spoken and written English, as well as teaching creative writing skills.
Includes numerous photocopiable worksheets and 'easy-to-draw' pictures by the author.
By:
Andrew Wright
Series edited by:
Alan Maley
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 172mm,
Spine: 9mm
Weight: 373g
ISBN: 9780194372046
ISBN 10: 0194372049
Series: Resource Books for Teachers
Publication Date: 19 June 1997
Audience:
ELT/ESL
,
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Other merchandise
Publisher's Status: Active
Note: A full contents list at the front of the book provides a complete list of the activities, the suggested level at which each activity can be used, and the approximate time each activity will take. The summary below aims to give a general idea of the book's organization. The author and series editor Foreword Introduction How to use this book 1. Story warmers (19 activities) The activities in this section are for helping the children to get into a story-making frame of mind. 2. The craft of story-making (12 activities) The children experiment with some of the features of good story-making - particularizing details, bubbling and clustering ideas, looking at desires and their associated difficulties, planning and sequencing. The final part of this section is 'Stories from personal experience'. 3. Retelling (4 activities) In this kind of story-making the children retell a story, transforming it by changes of content, medium, or style. 4. Beginnings and endings (9 activities) The children have one part of a story - first, last, or middle - and complete it or continue it and pass it on. 5. Filling in and filling out (11 activities) A sequence of different bits of information is used to stimulate and to guide the children in making their story. The bits of information can be of any kind, and can be received through any of the senses. 6. Sorting and sequencing (8 activities) Children have lots of different bits of information to sort out and put into a sequence to tell a story. 7. Starting with one thing (4 activities) One bit of information is used to stimulate and guide the children in to their story-making. 8. Making books (5 activities) Different ways of making books can encourage creativity, as well as helping children to present their work neatly. The way we choose to present and tell a story affects the content and the style of telling. Further reading A brief, annotated list of publications which you might like to follow up.
