How to prepare story books and use storytelling techniques for your classes

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How to prepare story books and use storytelling techniques for your classes 





    Story books are one of the great ways to teach young learners English especially when you are supposed to present new vocabulary and new grammar structures. Here is your guide, which I personally follow and highly recommend, to help you prepare your own story books as English teachers: 

  • The book should be visual and in big size so that your students see it clearly. 
  • The cover of the book should include the characters to give a clue to the students. 
  • The story should be enjoyable, positive, engaging and appropriate for the students’ age, proficiency level and interests with characters, place, time and events. 
  • The characters can be the students’ favourite cartoon characters or imaginary characters can be created like super heroes to take their attention. 
  • The place can be somewhere the students know like park, school, home or a different universe if you prefer to set up a context based on imaginary characters and events. 
  • The time and events can be dependent on the tense you aim to teach or revise. For instance, if you teach/revise past tense, your story can be based on past events. 
  • The pictures should be interesting, colorful and positive. For example, if you teach pets, you should stick the pictures of pets that smile and look happy. 
  • Target grammar structures and vocabulary should be involved in the story skillfully. You can highlight them by writing them in bold letters, different colors or by underlining them. 
  • It can be useful to bear in mind that you should learn more about some storytelling techniques to make your lessons more engaging, exciting and enjoyable for your students. 
After you prepare your story book, you need to plan your lesson based on your book. Here are some techniques to use for pre-reading, while-reading, post-reading steps of your lesson: 
Pre-reading: Guessing what the story will be about, brainstorming, personalization (have you got a pet?), pre-teaching vocabulary, revising vocabulary 
While-reading: Guessing, flashback, flash forward, eliciting, asking questions about the story 
Post-reading: Drama (role-play, simulation, etc.)  
You can do circle time activities if the class size allows you to do. Students can create a circle. You can ask students questions about time, places, events, characters, to predict what is going to happen next, to recall what has happened, what the characters are, where they are, what they do, when the events happen, etc. 

        May the story books that you will prepare bring joy and inspiration to your classes! 

    
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Hi! My name is Ece. I am a freelance English teacher and a blogger sharing tips, notes, creative resources to help you with English language teaching and learning.

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