Using Circle Time to Learn About Stories [Paperback]

This engaging book will help teachers who want to use the collaborative and co-operative method of learning to widen it from PSHE to other parts of the curriculum. It allows the teacher to develop a particular theme using key questions, activities and games. The unique links to storytelling and literacy skills will make this book highly popular with primary teachers.By combining the traditional classroom activity of reading stories with Circle Time, these activities provide students with opportunities to practise listening, expressing ideas, asking questions, using imagination, making predictions, experimenting with thinking and learning strategies and collaborating with other students.

Each of the six stories in this book is linked to a series of key questions, games and activities. These help the students to explore the stories' contexts (time and place) and patterns (plot and choice) and to analyze the characters and their own emotional responses. All the stories and activities are easily printable from the accompanying CD-rom.

Written for teachers in primary settings, this book is linked to the National Literary Strategy and the PSHE curriculum.Good text that makes links to practical activitiesUseful for students wanting to work in schools or moving on to teacher training. Imaginative ways to engage children in creative storytelling .Story-Time
Warm-ups
Turning Questions into Games - Silent Statements
Turning Questions into Games - Complete the Sentence
Questions about Context - Time and Place
Activities about Context - Time and Place
Questions about Patterns - Plot and Possibilities
Activities about Patterns - Pl#J