Storytelling in year 4 15.02.13

As I told you on the last storytelling post, my school tutor provided me with lots of scanned tales. Year 4 students are currently learning vocabulary related to food so I looked for a story about this topic and I found a very funny one called Eat your Peas. The book tells the story of a girl who doesn't want to eat her peas and her mum tries to convince her offering lots of presents.

To tell the story I interacted a lot with students. I constantly asked questions to them in order they guess what was going to happen next. For example, when the mother offered to the girl some pudding, bicycles, etc. in exchange for eating her peas, I asked to children: "Do you think she will agree or not?" and they were so enthusiastic to raise the hand and bet what happens. I think that this methodology helps to better understand the plot of the tale and also contribute to help the kids to know the meaning of new words, for example, they should learn the meaning of new vocabulary if they want to bet about the answer of the girl.

Once I finished telling the story, I want to practice the oral skills of kids thanks to a conversation. I asked them this question: Which is the food you hate the most? and each kid said one. Then, we played a memory game and to do it I randomly asked some children this other question: Do you remember which food (name of one kid) hated the most? so they should remember other food names. This is a funny way to make a revision of the topic vocabulary and also an opportunity of knowing new words if a student hates a food we haven't learned yet.

I continued the session asking children more questions like: Which present do you prefer to eat your food? so they had to think in objects, actions, etc. they would like to have or do. This part was the funniest one because they said such a lot of exaggerated things that everybody could laugh and have a fantastic time.