DRAMA: Storytelling and drama handout

In this handout they are plenty of different activities (more than 30) that can be do with very young english learners.

In class we just did one of them, the first one, "Words in the story". The story is the Kraken, a story that I think it is not appropiated for preschool children, so I think that we should make a small modification and tell the story with a different ending (maybe a mermaid can rescue them or something similar not being al drowned).

From all the activities appropiate for my future students, my favourite are the following:

4.5 Finger stories - children love puppets and for them is much more atractive to listen to an story with them. I think  they should make a previous activity creating by themselves finger puppets (with the teacher's help, of course) so that each children have two puppets: Mr Wiggle and Mr Waggle, and they will get more involved in the story.

4.9 That's not right! - If it is an easy story that children know well (cinderella, little red riding hood, etc)  , they would love this activity because they always enjoy and have fun when the teacher seems to be wrong. Maybe it will help them to have some pictures about the story in front of them so that they can correct the teacher easily.

4.19 Freeze! - It is like playing to statues, one of the favourite game for children. Children need to move andd they learn better while they move so, why do not combine moving ang learning? With this activity we will work on their concentration cause they will have to pay attention to the movement that it is said. The same activity 4.10 Follow my leader! They will have a lot of fun with it at the same time they are practising their listening skills and their imagination.

4.32 Four little pigs - Althoung it is recommended for 6 year old children, I think we can addapt it easily just simplifying the text, making the sentences shorter. We can prepare two or three different shows at the same time so that all the children participate and they dont get bored. With this kind of drama representation we are developing children memory skills and also their confidence.