Oral Storytelling with Red Riding Hood and The Tortoise and the Hare.

[Margaret Allen]

Children love stories and are comfortable with them. Stories with pictures and repetitive language are easy to understand and children can begin to build up vocabulary and inspire their imagination. Stories can lead to fun holistic learning activities and can be the basis for learning across other subject areas.
Encouraging Children's speaking and listening skills has become a subject of great concern and interest. These flipcharts offer the basis for oral storytelling to try and address the issue of engaging children's listening skills.
Using the pictures as prompts and presenting storytelling as a sharing activity will encourage their enthusiasm and confidence to "have a go" themselves.
To develop as storytellers children need to experience a range of stories and formats for sharing them.

Red Riding Hood - Click link below to download your copy

Tortoise and the Hare - click link below to download your copy

NB Remember that all of the images on each of the pages can be dragged into your resources Library and used for other stories and activities. You will need to be in “Design Mode” in order to do this.

Dont forget to come back and give me some feedback and vote in the poll please :)

[Janet R]

The flip charts look fabulous and great to have some new pictures in the resources library. How can we put 'hyperlinks' to other pages in our own flipcharts? I didn't know we could do this in ActivPrimary.

[Sarah Carpenter]

Love them!!!

[Margaret Allen]

Hi

I am glad you like them. Have some more to post. Watch this space!

In the meantime.....

Hyperlinking in AP :
Make sure you are in Design Mode and then when you double click on an object one of the options within the "object properties" (the fifth icon in the toolbar which pops up :) ) is "click action".
Click on the drop down menu and there you can link to different pages within the flipchart.

Design Mode - Dancing Man click "on his friend" (the third icon which rolls out when you click on the Dancing Man) Once you have a red frame around the Dancing Man you are in Design Mode.

Tip

Remember that to drag words/images from one page to another you must be in “Design Mode”.

By clicking here a red frame will appear around the Promethean Man this denotes “Design Mode”.

http://www.prometheanworld.com/uk/assets/images/tla/designmode.gif

Hope this helps!

[Cliff Farrand]

I have now removed the website version of the ACTIVprimary resources, in future all resources of this type will be posted here.

I look forward to Margarets next post :) - these resources are excellent!

[Margaret Allen]

Some more resources to resurrect!! [clap]

[frauke]

Hi M A
First, I love your flipcharts. Especially because they show how very fit the activboard is in kindergarden and lower grades. This is an item in the Netherlands where digital schoolboards mostly are put up in higher grades and kindergardenteachers often say not to see much use in them. I cannot appriciate this thought.
I hope it's allright for me to translate them...

[Margaret Allen]

Please do[clap]

BUT would you do me a favour??+wave+

Will you upload them again for the Dutch resources area?{}

Thanks +wave+

[frauke]

Sure thing. As soon as I find the time... (take the time??? ;)

[frauke]

I just uploaded The Princes... in the Dutch version: De prinses op de erwt.
I took the liberty to alter it just a little bit.

[Margaret Allen]

Fantastic![clap]

[Deborah Lewis]

When I do my training with teachers of Nursery /KS1 children I always suggest using the simple recording feature and take along my microphone.
Teachers need to have evidence of assessment so I suggest asking children to describe a story page and record them speaking.Firstly children love hearing their own voices and also if the sound file is saved with date and child's name there is now evidence of how they spoke on that day i.e their use of vocabulary, confidence, sentence structure etc. The teachers can repeat this later in the term and hopefully hear the improvemnets that the child has made in their speaking.
This is also great when teaching children who perhaps do not have english as thier first language.

[Deborah Lewis]

I work with a Year 3 teacher who gets his class to make their own flipcharts using the great story backgrounds and pictures. They write and record their stories and then send them down to nursery and reception classes-these children love hearing their big brother/sister being the big bad wolf or the lazy hare!

[meshell]

Firstly, I'd like to thank Promeathean for chosing my entry last year - I won an IWB and it's just been installed. Although I'm very new to IWB (the first time that I've ever used one) I, too, can see the potential for the IWB in the foundation stage - nursery level........I love these resources!

Has anyone got any resources/suggestions for activities that I can present to/or for the children to do?

Can we have some clipart that could be used in modern rhymes & songs also e.g. Five Little Speckled Frogs - sequencing animal movements - frog sat; frog leaping; frog landing; front and side views (frog with tongue out?)