Talk Through Stories and drama!

We have been taking part in Talk Through Story lessons. The purpose of these lessons is to extend and deepen children’s vocabulary so that they can understand the books they will be able to read for themselves. Listening to stories is vital to support children's development and Talk Through Stories aims to support this.

This week our story has been "Lost and Found." We enjoyed listening to the story and learning new vocabulary. We chose to add "discovered" to our vocabulary tree in the Literacy area and know that it means to find something. Our example was "The pirates discovered the treasure!" We joined in repeating key phrases from the book as we read the story and were able to identify our key word "discovered."

Our favourite learning activity was taking part in some drama and doing some freeze frames. We used our imagination to pretend we were the boy from the story and had to freeze frame how we would feel when we opened the door and saw the penguin stood there, then freeze frame how we would feel when we could not find the penguin. Our expressions were fantastic and we repeated back key phrase we might say using MTYT, including "You look surprised!" "We are surprised!" and "You look speechless!" "We are speechless!"

We used key phrases throughout the week to support our understanding of key words and important phrases that help support our understanding.

Here are some of our freeze frames! Can you guess how we were feeling?
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