Storytelling & Links with Literacy

HIAS Languages Team

Why bother reading storybooks in another Language?  We read stories to young children before they can read in their mother tongue.  Develops listening skills.  Allows all children to join in and respond in the language at some level.  It provides a real context for language & cultural heritage.  Reinforce what we are doing in Literacy.

Some tips:  Picture books can seem ‘babyish’ so use as a structure to emulate & exploit the familiarity of the text.  Books are small for use with a whole class so scan into PowerPoint & contact the HIAS team for help, particularly if a book is in the Catherine Cheater resource packs.  Authentic ‘story’ language is actually very challenging for a teacher – it is not ‘holiday French’ so use soundfiles where possible & do not expect to know every word, after all, do you know every word possible in the English language?

The art of storytelling – video clips & demos on the Primary Languages Training Zone. Joining in with a story: http://www.primarylanguages.org.uk/training_zone/teachers/active_learning/story_telling/joining_i n_story.aspx Reading a Russian story Years 1&2 http://www.primarylanguages.org.uk/training_zone/teachers/active_learning/story_telling/russian_ story.aspx Teaching sounds & vocab before the story: http://www.primarylanguages.org.uk/training_zone/teachers/active_learning/story_telling/sound_s pelling_story.aspx Reading a fable in French – The Lion & The Mouse http://www.primarylanguages.org.uk/training_zone/teachers/using_the_ks2_framework/intercultur al_understanding/lion_and_mouse.aspx

Online stories which are read aloud for you:  http://www.iletaitunehistoire.com/ A very large collection of French stories & poems which are mostly text based. To hear the stories you need to sign up for a (free) account.  http://www.racontine.com/ For younger children (up to Years 3 & 4) click & follow the pages of the book as they are read aloud in French.  http://www.europeoftales.net/site/fr/index.html Year 6 will love these beautiful animated traditional tales from around Europe.  http://continette.free.fr/Contes/Chaperon_FR/Chaperon1_frameset.htm Animated version of Red Riding Hood with a twist – nice link to put on a vle.  http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/languages/default.htm Northumberland Grid for Learning has simple animated tales including Golidlocks, Red Riding Hood, Aesops Fables and more available in French German Spanish & Italian, with the lessons to go with them.  http://www.storyplace.org/sp/storyplace.asp Selection of Spanish animated tales  http://www.bayswaterps.vic.edu.au/lote/maerchen/project.htm Simplified German fairytales available free as part of a European Grimm Brothers project.  http://www.sebastianswan.org.uk/index.html There is also non-fiction to be explored, here you will find French & Welsh versions of a guide written by a KS2 class to the life cycle of a swan.

HIAS is recording & uploading PowerPoint versions of all the books that are linked to the Catherine Cheater Schemes of Work. You will be able to access these via Hampshire Wizkid if you have proof that you have a paper copy of the books (not the scheme) in your school, so please email one of the team for details.

Ready-made examples, lessons & packs:  http://foreignlanguagefun.com/2008/10/go-away-big-green-monster-and-teach- french-and-spanish-body-parts/ Lots of ideas to use with Go Away Big Green Monster in French or Spanish.  http://www.valleeverte.edres74.ac-grenoble.fr/spip.php?article347 A French ‘maternelle’ class interpretation of Roule Galette – a pancake version of the Gingerbread man.  http://www.trainingforlearning.co.uk/resources.htm Wendy Adeniji’s resources include a free PowerPoint version of Sleeping Beauty and ‘Les Quatre Amis’ and are in French, German and Spanish  http://www.ecole-herrin.net/spip.php?rubrique4 Ecole d’Herrin share their ideas to exploit books that range from ‘Toutes les couleurs’ to The Hungry Caterpillar.  http://www.deseducation.org/view_folder.asp? folderid=1332&depth=5&rootid=17&level2id=103&level1=&level2=103&level3=586 &level4=594&level5=1332#29 Download teaching sequences (lesson plans) for Handa’s Surprise, The Rainbow Fish, Grand Monstre vert & Bon Appetit Monsieur Lapin made by Devon teachers.  http://www.pwidergren.net/PPT/cuentos/cuentos.htm Spanish stories on PowerPoint made by teachers.  http://www.somersetprimarylanguages.ik.org/p_Just_stories.ikml Somerset teachers have shared their resources including Jack & the Beanstalk and some exploitations of Tony Ross’ books.  http://www.somersetprimarylanguages.ik.org/p_Storytelling_resources.ikml Elaine Minett shares her resources with PowerPoints of Une Histoire Sombre and Une Sombre Nuit de Tempete among others.

Where do you get French/German/Spanish/Italian books?  https://www.eurobooks.co.uk/ order online or over the phone.  http://www.amazon.co.uk rather than try to buy through the French site (you can end up paying in Euros) instead type in the title of a book and then the language to see if available already in the uk.

The following list of books that are fun to use in the primary classroom is on http://hampshirelanguages.wikispaces.com

Please feel welcome to add your own favourites and don't worry about completing all the boxes - just whatever you have time to complete will be very useful!  You might want to dip in and out of books (a bit like the Catherine Cheater scheme of work) or  exploit texts further, using them to introduce vocabulary or even linguistic structures,  or go the whole way and use as the basis for a half term's scheme of work...

Book Text Sentence Word Yr

Camille fait trop peur - Jacques  car Duquennoy  soir Je suis... 3-4 Simple Hallowe'en theme  names

La chenille qui fait des trous - Eric carle  Food Life cycle of caterpillar KS1  Days of the Sparkle Box have produced a free il avait toujours faim Week resource pack: -

il a mangé  Numbers to SparkleBox Hungry Caterpillar yr 3 pack French.zip 5 Je m'habille et je te croque! je mets... Wolf gets dressed and comes to eat  clothes 2-4 you! mon / ma / mes Links nicely with the song 'Promenons nous dans les bois'...

Je ne suis pas mignon! je ne suis pas..  intonation (or try the european bookshop) 4-5 Baby owl is fed up with people thinking adjectives he is cute & trying to kiss him.  animals

Bon appétit! Monsieur Lapin. Rabbit is bored with carrots & asks other animals what they eat, until he meets Mr Fox... Que manges- lecture_mots.pdf tu?  animals R-3 Mots_croises.pdf que manges Je mange du/des tu.doc syllabe.pdf Animal cards.doc More free resources are on Maternelle de Moustache - click on L for Lapin Handa's Surprise Handa walks through the jungle unaware that animals are stealing fruit from her basket. Click here for a link to  fruit an entire unit of work for KS1. Another j'aime  animals complete unit of work available from KS1 West Sussex Grid for Learning here: je n'aime pas  numbers to http://wsgfl.westsussex.gov.uk/ccm/cont 10 ent/curriculum/mfl/ks2/cross-curricular- resource-packs/french/handas- surprise.en;jsessionid=a-iIUkBV3vSg Dear Zoo A zoo offers animals to a child but they are rejected for various reasons until parce que  animals one is just perfect - good for adjectives donc 3-5 and introducing parce que / donc je l'ai renvoyé  adjectives (subordinate clauses) click here for ideas

Toutes les couleurs A little bunny learns about colours as he gets messy.  colours KS1 Maternelle de Moustache has lots of free resources to support this book, click on C and scroll down