Story telling : Year 3 & 4 focus

“The foreign language can be used to revise and reinforce prior learning, to provide opportunities to revisit earlier learning within a new context, when children might resent doing so in English. In other words, the foreign language can provide the context for a ‘fresh start’, and help to rescue children who might otherwise have been left behind.” Young Pathfinder 9: The Literacy Link by Catherine Cheater and Anne Farren 2001

Training Zone – Storytelling in German

Links to sentence level Awareness of how a sentence “sounds”; Expressing ideas in larger chunks of language; Understanding pattern in language and beginning grammar Dictionary skills

Monsieur Lapin

Links to text level Fostering a love of literature Contextualising language Developing comprehension and composition

Decide on the purpose of the book Enjoyment Reinforcing spoken language and hearing the natural rhythm of the language Cross curricular link To introduce aspects of intercultural understanding To reinforce and contextualise taught language As a tool to teach something specific As the basis of a longer term sequence of work

A Sequence of Teaching Listening, enjoying and involving the learner From text to sentence to word Developing and rebuilding Amending, adapting, recreating Outcome Performing, creating a new book, displays

Developing and rebuilding Ordering sections of text Matching text and pictures Recreating sentences Acting the text Developing new events Outcome Making books/ICT texts Presenting to others Making a labelled display

Que Vois-Tu? Original book ‘Brown Bear’ by Eric Carle Groups with responsibilities. Class & teacher wrote first sentence together

Online books with soundfiles Northumberland Grid for Learning

Online examples

A reference book

Mr Men with videos

Tom et Laia