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Tell Us a Tale: Teaching Students to Be Storytellers Lesson PlanTell Us a Tale: Teaching Students to Be Storytellers Lesson Plan
Publisher
Scholastic
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Grade
3rd - 8th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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For Teacher Use
Duration
2 days
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Differentiated Instruction
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Video
Year
2017
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Tell Us a Tale: Teaching Students to Be Storytellers

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Encourage scholars to retell their favorite short story or folktale, adding personal details to make it their own. After reading their book of choice several times, story tellers retell a tale verbally to their classmates. 

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

storytellers, storytelling, oral history, short stories, folktales, sequence of events, summarizing, story elements, elements of a short story, script writing

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Allow learners to record themselves fro practice purpose, direct them to tell their story, listen or watch it, then revise and edit is needed 
  • Approve the book class members choose prior them starting the assignment to confirm its appropriateness for the lesson   
  • Encourage early finishers to create a visual representation of their new story, display finished products around the classroom

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires copies, books—short stories and folktales—and an optional audio or video recorder

Pros

  • The included graphic organizer is editable online 
  • Provides a list of books appropriate for the lesson topic 

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.3.2 RL.4.2 RL.5.2 SL.3.2 SL.3.6 SL.4.2 SL.4.6 SL.5.2 SL.5.6 RL.6.2 RL.7.2 RL.8.2 SL.6.2 SL.6.6 SL.7.2 SL.7.6 SL.8.2 SL.8.6

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