Literacy: A few handy story PowerPoints

So I have added a few handy story PowerPoints to my TES page - feel free to go over and take a look - I have also sent the links via my twitter page :)

Funnybones by Janet and Alan Ahlberg:

We covered this as part of our 'All about me' theme and the kids loved it!

Get the PowerPoint here:
http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Funnybones-PowerPoint-story-J-and-A-Ahlberg-6313921/

The Champion Hare:

This we covered as part of our 'Olympics' theme but it is great for any sport related theme

Get the PowerPoint here:
http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/The-Champion-Hare-story-PowerPoint-6313923/

The Gruffalo:

My absolute favourite! Great for an 'Animals' theme - can you spot the animals that are real and the ones that are made up?

Get the PowerPoint here:
http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/The-Gruffalo-PowerPoint-story-Julia-Donaldson-6313920/

A squash and a squeeze:

I remember reading this as a child myself - we are doing this currently for a 'Homes and Buildings' theme - great repetition for young children.

Get the PowerPoint here:
http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/A-squash-and-a-squeeze-PowerPoint-story-6313265/

and there are also some vocab cards which I made here: http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/A-squash-and-a-squeeze-display-labels-Key-Vocab-6313027/

Oscar and the Moth (Science PowerPoint about light and dark):

Excellent for a story based Science topic!

Get the PowerPoint here:
http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Oscar-and-the-Moth-Powerpoint-Science-Light-6171305/

The Race - Chinese New Year Story:

An excellent story for January when the Chinese new year comes around!

Get the PowerPoint here:
http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/The-Race-Chinese-New-Year-Story-PowerPoint-6164254/

The Lion King:

Great for an Africa topic or if you want to cover something a little familiar!

Get the PowerPoint here:
http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/The-Lion-King-Powerpoint-6164485/

Feel free to download the PowerPoints via the link - it's free and easy to do - I know how long these take to make so if it saves you the time I'd love you to use them!

Enjoy!

Oh help...Oh no...It's a Gruffalo!

Well last half term our topic was animals and we therefore studied the book 'The Gruffalo'. It coincided nicely with World Book Day so we did loads of drama work around an adapted version of the story and performed it for the school as part of a Performance Poetry project. For the performance we made some great masks from a template which you can get on the TES: http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Forest-Animal-Masks-Fox-Owl-Snake-Mouse-use-with-The-Gruffalo-Percy-the-Park-Keeper-etc-3004955/ and we found a Gruffalo template on the official site as well.

We also made some description cards which took a couple of days to make but looked fantastic! The students LOVED making these as we used modroc to build up the key features on each card and then we covered them with tissue paper and watered down PVA to create a papier mache effect and then to finish it off we painted round the edge of each card with a light blue. Students held these up in turn as we read through the poem. They look really effective and everyone commented on how great the work looked.

We also used these as part of our story each week and it really got the students engaging with the repetative verses and it acted as cued articulation.

Take a look:

     

 

 

 

We also linked this to Maths with a great game:
http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Build-your-own-Gruffalo-Game-3005650/
We found that the board game was a little much for some of our students to we played it like a simple beetle drive or a 'Gruffalo Drive'. Download from the link.

Enjoy!