You should know that you can use different tools to work with stories and help children develop their reading and writing skills, so as their critic thought and understanding.
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| Kidspiration |
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| Inspiration |
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| Nearpod |
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| Tripline |
Introduction
"THE MONK AND THE FISH"
Voiceless story of Michäel Dudok.
Children can work retelling the story by using a Kidspiration map:
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| Developed text |
Year 1
Fiction: "FAT CAT ON A MAT"
This magnificent story can help us to chieve literacy targets as it focuses on rhyming words and identifying sounds of rhymes.
This following maps were created with kidspiration:
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| Character analysis - developed text |
It could be said that these maps and tools used for building them, are the scaffolding children need to develop complex texts in both, oral and written language.
Representing scenes
If you look for another way of enjoying the story, let your students make groups and represent an scene by being statues. Another child has to go through the groups and describe what is happening in each scene.
Non fiction: "I SPY AN ALPHABET IN ART"
This is a wonderful non-fiction book for year 1 that can be used to play the game "I spy with my little eye...". This way, children are learning the alphabet and also knowing famous artworks.
We can ask children different question to elicit answers:
- What can you see in the picture?
- Can you find something begining with...?
- . . .
Year 2
Fiction: "THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR"
Fiction: "MY CAT LIKES TO HIDE IN BOXES"
Year 3
Fiction: "LAZY JACK"
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| Lazy Jack - developed text |
This following video is similar to the story we worked with:
Year 4
Fiction: "THE OWL WHO WAS AFRAID OF THE DARK"
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| Working with the story using Nearpod |
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| Retelling the story with Kidspiration |
Year 5
Fiction: "THE TRUE STORY OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS"
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| Comparing and contrasting both stories using Inspiration |
After this map, the tool used gives the opportunity to create a presentation so that children can retell the story to their classmates by having a look at key words and pictures of the story.
It´s a way of providing SCAFFOLDING to children, to make them feel confident when talking in English.
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| Showing similarities and differences in a Venn diagram (and developed text) using Kidspiration |
Year 6
Fiction: "KENSUKE´S KINGDOM"
It´s an adventure book for year 6. The main character is Michael, a young boy that travels with his parents around the world. One day they had an accident and Michael and the family´s dog fall down outside the Peggy Sue, the family´s boat. After this event, Michael and his dog live lots of adventures, that you´ll discover if you read this fantastic book!
Following Peggy Sue´s trip using Tripline:
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| Michael´s trip |
This tool is perfect to visualize Michael´s trip. Children could make a small research about the places Michael and his family visit, and include the information and pictures they get in the application. Besides that, they can review the book and include the facts and information it gives.
When children are familiar with the tool and have completed Michael´s trip, they´ll probably feel like doing their own dream trip. Here is an example:
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| The trip of my life |
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