Task 2 (a): Storytelling (20%)

Individual work
Conduct a story telling session based on one of the books that you have selected
in Task 1(b). Record your story telling session and send in a copy of your
session. Show samples of the products product by your pupils after your story
telling session.

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SELECTED STORY BOOK & ACTIVITIES FOR STORY TELLING SESSION.

Story No 2: Upper Primary Classroom.
Genre: Pour quoi Tale
Title of the book: Why the shell of a tortoise looks cracked.
Activities for the story telling and Language Arts.

Pre-story telling

While-story telling

Post-story telling

Language Arts

Activities: Describe
& Draw.

Activities: Tree Map

on 5Ws

Activities: Find me in
the puzzles.

Activities: Describe
the characters in the
story.

1) Teacher
prepares 3
word cards and
calls up few
pupils
(randomly) to
describe the
words through
drawing.
2) Pupils try to
guess the
words based
on the
drawings /
pictures.
3) Teacher
introduces the
title of the story
to pupils.

1) On the second
time of
storytelling,
teacher
distributes papers
to pupils which
contain questions
on 5Ws.
W-who
W-where
W-what
W-when
W-why
2) As pupils listen /
read the story,
they complete the
tree mapping.
3) Teacher and
pupils discuss the
answers together.

1) Teacher prepares
crossword puzzles
on 10 words that
can be found in
the story.
2) Pupils find the
words in 10
minutes.
3) The fastest pupils
with all 10 correct
answers will win
the game.

The tortoise.
The duck.

1) Teacher gets
pupils to
describe the
characters using
circle map.
2) Call up several
pupils to read
aloud / describe
their favourite
character(s).

Justification on
selected activity:

Justification on
selected activity:

Justification on
selected activity:

Justification on
selected activity:

To get them
ready for the
activity, to
arouse pupils
interest.

To reinforce
pupils
understanding
towards the
story, to apply
HOTS in the
activity.

To enrich their
vocabulary, to get
them alert on the
words found in
the story heard.

To get them to
be able to
describe the
characters
based on the
values found in
the story heard.

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Materials:
1) 3 Word cards
Shell
Cracked
Tortoise

Materials:

Worksheet: None

Worksheet: Tree
map.

1) Big book
2) WorksheetTree Map

Materials:
1) Crossword
puzzles.

Materials:
1) WorksheetCircle map.

Worksheet: None

Worksheet: Circle
map.

Materials / teaching aids / worksheets for the activities.

Stages / Activities:
Pre-story telling
Activities: Describe & Draw

Materials / teaching aids:

Word cards
(Refer Appendix 2a)

While-story telling
Activities: Tree Map on 5Ws

Big book
Tree Map Worksheet
(Refer Appendix 2b)

Post-story telling
Activities: Find me in the puzzles.

Word puzzles-10 words

(Refer Appendix 2c)

Language Arts
Activities: Describe the characters in the story.

Circle Map Worksheet

(Refer Appendix 2d)

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Appendix 2a ( Word cards )

Shell

Cracked

Tortoise

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Appendix 2b ( Tree Map on 5Ws Questions )

Name:.
Instructions: Fill in the tree map based on the 5ws questions guides given.

Why the shell of a tortoise looks cracked

Where?

Who?

When?

.
.

What?

Why?

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Appendix 2b (i) Big Book of the story)

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Appendix 2c ( Word puzzles )

Name:.
Instruction: Find 10 words that you heard and found in the story. Colour the boxes of the
words.

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a
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x
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t
d
f
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k
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q
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f
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l
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k

Clues:
5 words

5 words

Appendix 2d ( Circle map )

Name:
Instruction: Describe your favourite character (s) in the story and fill in the outer circle
map.

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Character

..

REFERENCES

The Bird and The Bumblebee (2005 ed.). (2005). Selangor Darul Ehsan, Selangor: Penerbitan
Pelangi Sdn. Bhd. 2005.

Why the shell of a tortoise looks cracked. (2010). Selangor Darul Ehsan, Selangor: Aneka
Publication & Distributors Sdn. Bhd.

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Using storytelling activities in the primary modern language classroom. Retrieved February 20
2015 from
www.mlpsi.ie

Pedagogical Principles Of Teaching Young Learners / By JJM. Retrieved February 20 2015

from
http://letsdiscuss-jjm.blogspot.com/2012/08pedagogicalpprinciples-of-teaching.html

Appendix 3
DVD on the story telling recorded.

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Appendix 4
Samples of products produced by pupils after the story telling session.

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