My First Story
This fun activity for all ages uses storytelling and a simple card game to help children develop language skills, creativity, and self-confidence by reading, identifying story elements, and creating their own stories
Time
45 min
Age
3-16 years old
Group size
1-8 ppl
Location
Indoor
Learn & gain
Children will draw and craft written story in a foreign language.
Materials
Printable template of the book, a book with a story, printable characters of the book. glue, scissors, colored pencils, markers
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Languages Available
Step-by-step Guide
1. Prepare a book and have some of the characters in printable form.
2. Print out the story template and build a book out of its pages. Plain computer paper is enough.
3. Print the elements of the story and a small storytelling game using the designed cards on cardboard (thicker paper).
4. Read a story from the book, identify with the children the elements of the story.
5. Play a little storytelling card game.
6. Choose a character and create a story starting with it: use crayons to draw the story, scissors to cut and glue elements in the story or writing for creating the story.
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Preparation
Prepare printable materials appropriate for the age group and skills.
Expected output
The tangible result is the actual output of the activity, by repeating it with different books the stories become better and richer in elements.
Adaptation/Application of the method
- A group with varied language proficiency – The activity can contain only images, images with text
- Other languages –The templates are very easy to adapt to any language, one needs only the books in a new language.
- Bilingual/multilingual options – Stories can be written in any language, illustration can contain texts ini different languages
- Cultural contexts – you can take as a base a fairy tale of the country of origin or the country of residence
- Other age groups – can be adapted to any age
- Distance learning options – yes, materials can be shared online and the activity can be done / explained to the group of parents/teachers via zoom
- Challenges – if a group of kids has a very different level of languages and skills, it may require assistance from parents and variety ofo materials printed. It’s better enquire language and skills information from parent before the workshop to design the activity properly.
- Advanced materials – books in different languages
- Options for parents – Everything can be printed or drawn and made by yourself, which is very easy to organise at home and does not require complicated materials and activities.
Developed by / Origin / Original language
Biblioteca Prichindeilor / Romania / Romanian
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