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

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

PDF

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Languages Available

(RO) Română
(EN) English

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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For Educators & Teachers

In the following section you’ll find additional information to help you adapt this activity for different audiences, language abilities and group sizes. This information should help educators and teachers to adapt the activity to meet the specific needs of different learners and to ensure accessibility, engagement and effectiveness in different learning environments.

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 in 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 – 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 of 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, Petronela Bordeianu / Romania / Romanian

References, and Resources

https://bibliotecaprichindeilor.com/ 

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