If you have ten students aged 5 years old and three or four students aged 6 years old (who can read simple words) in the same room, you can nominate students aged 6 years old to be the storytellers. Each child in the group aged 6 years old will take turns to be the storytellers by reading a page of the book to all students aged 5 years old.
Steps to do:
• Choose a very simple book for the storytelling.
• The teacher must tell all students about the expectation.
For example: "All students aged 5 years old must be active listeners, because there will be questions given after the story read to them. Those who can answer the questions correctly will be given an opportunity to do free play straight away".
• The teacher needs to keep reminding all students to be active listeners.
• The teacher needs to guide and encourage the storyteller to ask simple questions to the listeners.
• The teacher tells the storyteller to give high fives to the listeners, who can answer questions correctly.
• The teacher can give permission to the listeners, who can answer the questions correctly to do free play straight away.
• The storyteller can help listeners to answer the questions correctly by providing the right answers.
This storytelling strategy came up with a very good result.
The result is both the reading and listening skills are improved.
©Tina Adi
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