Why use stories and readers in the class?

Building up teaching school materials

Cecilia Maller A.

• What can stories and readers give?

* Ideal introduction to FL Lg in context.

• Familiar.

Stories:

1. Motivating and fun + attitude FL.

2. Exercise imagination.

• How can Ss be personally involved in a story?

• * Identify with characters

• * try to interpret the narrative

• try to interpret the illustrations

• How can stories and readers encourage Ss´creativity and inventiveness?

Child´s real world

What is reading and listening stories in class?

• - It´s a shared social experience

–Helps build up the child´s confidence

–Encourage social and emotional development

• Kids love listening to stories ( repeat)

So lg items are acquired and reinforced

What can you get as a teacher when Ss listen to stories?

• 1. Introduce and revise Vocab.

Exposing children to Lg

• 2. Develop the child´s listening and concentrating skills:

• - visual clues

• - prior knowledge

• - Listening for the main idea or plot- without necessarily understanding everything

• - Practice and reinforce lexis& structures

• To develop conceptual skills:

• Such as

»Prediction

»Guessing meaning

»Training memory

Readers and the curriculum

• They add a lot in the whole school curriculum• How??• 1. Reinforcing conceptual development: Color- Size-Shape-Time.• 2. Developing learning to learn• 3. Reinforcing thinking strategies: ex.• Comparing, Classifying, Predicting, Problem

solving.

• 4. Developing strategies for learning a 2nd Lg.

• How?

• Guessing the meaning of new words

• Training the memory

• Self testing

• 5. Developing study skills.

• How??

• Making and interpreting charts, graphs and surveys

• Making and learning to use dictionaries

• Organizing work

• 6. Can be used to develop other subjects:

Ex. Maths, Science, History, Geo and the environment, Arts and Craft, Music and Drama- Cultural studies

What to consider when choosing a reader?

• Age• Level of learner• Needs• Previous Lg.• Learning experience• Language level• Interests• Degree of difficulty

Now read the following and take notes

• Make “ Story -based lessons” more accessible

• Planning story- based lessons

• Procedures to write a lesson plan

• Retelling strategies to improve comprehension