Task 2 (a)

Task 2 (a): Storytelling (20%)

Individual work

Conduct a story telling session based on one of the books that you have selected

in Task 1(b). Record your story telling session and send in a copy of your

session. Show samples of the products product by your pupils after your story

telling session.

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SELECTED STORY BOOK & ACTIVITIES FOR STORY TELLING SESSION.

Story No 2: Upper Primary Classroom.

Genre: Pour quoi Tale

Title of the book: Why the shell of a tortoise looks cracked.

Activities for the story telling and Language Arts.

Pre-story telling While-story telling Post-story telling Language Arts

Activities: Describe & Draw.

1) Teacher prepares 3 word cards and calls up few pupils (randomly) to describe the words through drawing.

2) Pupils try to guess the words based on the drawings / pictures.

3) Teacher introduces the title of the story to pupils.

Activities: Tree Map on 5W’s

1) On the second time of storytelling, teacher distributes papers to pupils which contain questions on 5W’s.

W-whoW-whereW-whatW-whenW-why

2) As pupils listen / read the story, they complete the tree mapping.

3) Teacher and pupils discuss the answers together.

Activities: Find me in the puzzles.

1) Teacher prepares crossword puzzles on 10 words that can be found in the story.

2) Pupils find the words in 10 minutes.

3) The fastest pupils with all 10 correct answers will win the game.

Activities: Describe the characters in the

story.

The tortoise. The duck.

1) Teacher gets pupils to describe the characters using circle map.

2) Call up several pupils to read aloud / describe their favourite character(s).

Justification on selected activity:

To get them ready for the activity, to arouse pupils’ interest.

Justification on selected activity:

To reinforce pupils’ understanding towards the story, to apply HOTS in the activity.

Justification on selected activity:

To enrich their vocabulary, to get them alert on the words found in the story heard.

Justification on selected activity:

To get them to be able to describe the characters based on the values found in the story heard.

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Materials:1) 3 Word cards Shell Cracked Tortoise

Materials:

1) Big book2) Worksheet-

Tree Map

Materials:1) Crossword

puzzles.

Materials:1) Worksheet-

Circle map.

Worksheet: None Worksheet: Tree map.

Worksheet: None Worksheet: Circle map.

Materials / teaching aids / worksheets for the activities.

Stages / Activities: Materials / teaching aids:

Pre-story tellingActivities: Describe & Draw

Word cards(Refer Appendix 2a)

While-story tellingActivities: Tree Map on 5W’s

Big book Tree Map Worksheet

(Refer Appendix 2b)

Post-story tellingActivities: Find me in the puzzles.

Word puzzles-10 words(Refer Appendix 2c)

Language ArtsActivities: Describe the characters in the story.

Circle Map Worksheet(Refer Appendix 2d)

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Appendix 2a ( Word cards )

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Shell

Cracked

Tortoise

Appendix 2b ( Tree Map on 5W’s Questions )

Name:…………………….

Instructions: Fill in the tree map based on the 5w’s questions guides given.

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Why the shell of a tortoise looks cracked

Who?

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Where?

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When?

………………………….

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What?

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Why?

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Appendix 2b (i) –Big Book of the story)

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Appendix 2c ( Word puzzles )

Name:………………………….

Instruction: Find 10 words that you heard and found in the story. Colour the boxes of the words.

m t u k q f l y i t

a d m l d k e q j o

z f o p h a g d s r

x d u c k m w u t t

e g t o j x v l i o

w h h g c g d b c i

e q f o r e s t k s

y d j h i s h w p e

e c r a c k e d f b

s t e b m o l t s u

k p o n d p l s r k

Clues:

5 words 5 words

Appendix 2d ( Circle map )

Name:………………………………

Instruction: Describe your favourite character (s) in the story and fill in the outer circle map.

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REFERENCES

The Bird and The Bumblebee (2005 ed.). (2005). Selangor Darul Ehsan, Selangor: Penerbitan

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Character

………………..

Pelangi Sdn. Bhd. 2005.

Why the shell of a tortoise looks cracked. (2010). Selangor Darul Ehsan, Selangor: Aneka

Publication & Distributors Sdn. Bhd.

Using storytelling activities in the primary modern language classroom. Retrieved February 20 2015 from

www.mlpsi.ie

Pedagogical Principles Of Teaching Young Learners / By JJM. Retrieved February 20 2015 from

http://letsdiscuss-jjm.blogspot.com/2012/08pedagogicalpprinciples-of-teaching.html

Appendix 3

DVD on the story telling recorded.

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Appendix 4

Samples of products produced by pupils after the story telling session.

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