Lovely Read-Aloud Tales with Instant Activities
Added: 05 Jul 2016
Contributor:
Cliona Brennock
Resource type:
Guide/notes
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Lesson Plan
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Project
12 re-producible read aloud tales with activities for discussion and writing. Pupils will learn many nice messages from these lovely tales. Tales include; The cow and the pitcher, belling the cat, the lion and the mouse, the tortoise and the hare, the wind and the sun, the oak and the reeds, the city mouse and the country mouse, the fox and the stock, the Shepherd who called wolf, the fox and the grapes, the fox and the cow and the ant and the grasshopper.
How it maps to the curriculum
Strand: Writing
Suggestions for use: Choose the tale you would like your class to hear, read tale together. Print out the worksheet for the activities on the tale.
Strand: Writing
Strand unit: Developing Cognitive Ability through Language
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- expand and clarify his/her thoughts on a particular idea or topic through drafting and re-drafting
- read a narrative or expository piece and summarise it
- read a story and write it in his/her own words
- write a list of questions about a particular topic and prioritise them
- write a sentence and elaborate on it by adding one or more ideas to it
- write in a variety of genres with greater sophistication
Suggestions for use: Choose the tale you would like your class to hear, read tale together. Print out the worksheet for the activities on the tale.
Strand: Oral Language
Suggestions for use: Choose the tale you would like your class to hear, read tale together. Print out the worksheet for the activities on the tale.
- JC
- English
Strand: 2. Reading
Strand unit: 02. Read for a Variety of Purposes
Suggestions for use: Use stories with low ability English classes. Read a tale before introducing students to the topic of their personal writing piece so that students have ideas and expressions before asked to engage in writing.
Key Skills:
- Communicating
- Staying Well
- Managing Myself
