Engaging Children with Action Stories and Storytelling Techniques
Action Stories and TPR Techniques for Children
Engage children in stories using Total Physical Response (TPR) with these simple techniques. Children can:
- Mime the story as it’s read or played on audio.
- Perform pre-arranged actions when they hear key words.
- Stand up when a character speaks or acts.
- Look at and point to key illustrations.
These actions bring the story to life and help children internalize the language.
Action Stories: Phased Approach
Phase 1: Pre-Teaching
The teacher pre-teaches vocabulary
Read MoreEffective Teaching Strategies: Key Visuals, Guided Reading, and Resource Material
As a future teacher, I plan to use various strategies in the classroom to enhance my students’ knowledge acquisition and retention. This unit has provided me with the opportunity to learn about different types of strategies, some of which I find particularly interesting and useful for my future career. My goal is to create a meaningful learning experience for my students, enabling them to learn with understanding. In this text, I will explain the strategies that I found most interesting and useful,
Engaging Children with Action Stories and Storytelling
Action Stories and TPR Techniques
Action Stories or TPR Stories: Children can participate in stories using TPR (Total Physical Response) with a few simple techniques. They can:
- Mime the story as it is read/played on an audio device.
- Perform pre-arranged actions when they hear key words read out.
- Listen and stand up when a character speaks or acts.
- Look and point to key illustrations/frames of the story.
These actions will make the story come to life and help the children internalize the language.
Action
Read MoreTeaching English to Children: Practical Tips and Techniques
Unit 1: Teaching Young Learners
1.1 First Language – Second Language
Knowing how children learn their first language can help us teach them a second language.
Babies:
- Hear voices from the time they are born.
- Listen to a lot of sounds.
- Play with sounds and practice making sounds.
Young Children:
- Only acquire the language they hear around them.
- Need to hear a lot of English.
- Listen to you and try to make sense of what you say.
Teaching Tips: Helping Children Learn a New Language
The teacher should:
- Use English
Effective Language Learning: Strategies for Young Learners
True or False Exam
- When working with very young learners, it is a good idea to change activities frequently: TRUE
- English should be inserted in Basque schools as a separate subject from Basque and Spanish, with different methodologies: FALSE
- The type of activities that we use with very young learners should provide a meaningful context for the children: TRUE
- In the Dip, Dip, Dip project, the main aim is that children learn grammar: FALSE (The main aim is motivation and a positive attitude, not to learn
Mastering English: Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening
Mastering English: Reading, Writing, Speaking & Listening
Reading Skills
Reading subskills:
- Fluency
- Decoding
- Predicting (using cultural background)
- Inferring
- Reading actively (using a dictionary)
- Scanning (for specific information)
- Skimming (for general idea)
- Cohesion
- Reading for detail (intensive reading – to get as many details as possible)
- Reading for general meaning (knowing the meaning of words)
Processes in reading:
- Bottom-up: Decoding a text to understand. Focus is on words and meanings.
- Top-down: Using