Discover the Power of Storytelling

Presenter: Fabienne Daniels
Session number: 2
Northwestern Room
Workshop name:
Storytelling, Bringing Powerfull Context
for Foreign Language instruction.
Handout name:
Discover the Power of Storytelling: A
Rich Context for Foreign Language
Learning.
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A Rich Context for
Foreign Language Teaching.
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Language
cultural
sensorial
Math
Practical
life
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Video
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•Strategies
Choose a story •Folktale /
Story
Choose good
objectives
Choose
learning
experience
•Objectives
•Assessment
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•Build your unit
•Activities
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The story has……..
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Rhyme
Rhythm
Repetition
Beginning, middle, and end
Drama
Richness of the target culture
Connections to other disciplines
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The story lends itself to…
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Visuals
Props (authentic a plus)
Acting it out
Storytelling
Gesturing
TPR (The Asher version)
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The story is…………
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Interesting and engaging
Meaningful to students
Relevant to curriculum objectives
Age-appropriate
Linguistically appropriate.
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Introduce the characters.
Introduce the story.
Introduce activities.
Balance listening, speaking, reading, writing
activities.
From chunks of language to whole language
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Choose a story
Design a web
 Write down themes in area?
 Recurrent themes: Scaffolding
 Spiraling themes: Connecting the grades
(Colors, numbers, actions, family, furniture, clothes,
Animals, body parts, time, seasons……..)
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Predictions
Graphic organizers
Beginning, middle, end
Point of View
Interviews
Open ended questions
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Math
Theme
Activities
Practical life
Theme
Activities
Sensorial
Theme
Activites
story
Language
Theme
Activities
Cultura
Theme
Activitiesl
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Boucle d’Or - Roule Galette
House
Animals
Actions
Food
Colors, numbers and shapes…….
Seasons, weather and clothes
Seasons, months, days of the week
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Choose a story
Choose good
objectives
Choose
learning
experience
•Strategies
•Folktale / story
•Objectives
•Assessment
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•Build your unit
•Activities
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Communities
Cook “la galette” at
home or at school.
Organize a Mardi Gras
event.
Perform a play for the
community.
Communication
Greeting each other I
Identifying Family
members.
Theater activities.
Culture
Make a Mardi gras mask.
Learn Mardi Gras song.
Explain the origine of…
Describe the importance of
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Comparison:
Identify cognates.
Compare Roule Galette and
the Gingerbread Man.
Roule
Galette
Connection
Animal habitats
Animal tracks
Math Km/ Miles
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Students will learn greeting vocabulary and associated gestures.
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Students will illustrate a story and label the main characters of the story.
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Students will illustrate a beginning, middle and end map.
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Students will negociate in the foreign language to fill out a story map.
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Students will learn the metric system.
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Students will demonstrate an understanding of the tradition of Mardi Gras.
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Students will experience a Mardi Gras event with the school larger
community.
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Choose a story
Choose good
objectives
Choose
learning
experience
•Strategies
•Folktale / story
•Objectives
•Assessment
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•Activities
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Support your objectives
Support different learning styles
Provide students interaction
Scaffolds
Balances pre-reading, reading and post reading
experiences.
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Work in group
True or false
Yes or no
Draw beginning
Middle and end
Identify
characters
Work in partner
Either / Or and
open ended.
order sentences
Act out
Associate traits to
character.
Work
independently
Open-ended.
Summarize with
model
Describe
character
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Interpretive Activities.
 Gather information about the story.
 Gather information about the characters.
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Petit animal, animal moyen,
ou grand animal?
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L’ours
Le lapin......
Le loup........
Le renard.......
Prediction:
Quel animal va manger la Galette?
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Know the story
Show them the book
Use props
Act it out: TPR, gestures.
Dress the part
Insist on focus from the students
Use intonation and expressive language.
Read a first time and read again and again.
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Ask questions about the story
Activities.
Sequencing
Comparisons.
Handcrafted books.
Retell story with props or gestures.
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Start with what is it? Who
is it? (Three period
lessons)
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End with why?
And open ended
questions.
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• Pictures.
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• Phrases
• Paragraph
• Oral communication
exercise.
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Linguistic learner
Mathematical learner
Visual and spatial learner
Body kinesthetic learner
Musical learner
Interpersonal learner
Intrapersonal learner
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Bonjour
Madame
Galette, viens
plus pres je veux
te manger
Non, non, non,
ecoute plutot
ma petite
chanson!
Je suis la
galette.......
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Pre-Sequencing
Pictures Sequencing
Identify Story Elements
Sentence sequencing
Word Sequencing
Transition Words
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Je suis la galette, la galette,
je suis faite avec le ble,
Ramasse dans le grenier,
on m’a mis a refroidir
mais j’ai mieux aime,
rouler rouler rouler, sur
Le chemin.
Attrape moi si tu peux.
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Providing students with:
• Language as it is used
• Small text
• Rythme and
mouvement
Used as:
• Phonemic awareness
• Sound sorts
• Reading fluency.
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Why do sequencing?
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Pre-Sequencing
Pictures Sequencing
Identify Story Elements
Sentence sequencing
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Language
Math
Cultural
Practical life
Crafts
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presentational
Interpersonal
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interpretive
Teaching The
Language
Skills
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Interpretive
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Presentational
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Draw scenes from story or from written prompts.
Draw with shapes identify characher.
Find the illogical intruder from a list of word
Match character to begining sound or to the description
Order a series of Pictures or statements to retell story.
Phonemic awareness: Sound booklet
Beginning Middle and End
Identify statements as True or False.
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Identify pictures of characters using single words
With a partner order a series of pictures to tell the story
Students obtain information by interviewing other
students with conversation prompters.
Act out a scene involving conversation with a partner
Have a conversation with another student in the role of the
characters.
Use sentence strips to sequence the story with a partner
Complete story map with partner: Identify when, where,
characters, problem, resolution
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Sequence pictures to tell a story
Create a poster with a scene and summary sentence
Draw your favorite part and explain why.
Communicate using the graphic organizer. (setting,
character, problem, resolution)
Label scene using sentences.
Retell story
Digital Storytelling.
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www.actfl.org (proficiency guidelines and Standards)
www.Languageshaping.com (free units in French and
spanish)
Wiggins: and Mc Tighe, Understanding by Design,
ASCD, 1999.
Curtain, Helena and Carol Pesola Dahlberg language
and Children: Making the match. New Langauges for
young learners, Grade k-8, fourth edition, 2009
Kieran Egan, “The underused Power of Story Form in
Teaching” Westminister Studies in Education, vol 10
1987
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Discover the Power of Storytelling: A
Rich Context for Foreign Language
Learning.
Name of your story: ______________________________
Math
Sensorial
Your
story:
Language
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Practical
life
Cultural
Choose Your Own Story:
Title:
Area
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Activities
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Foreign Language Related Web-Sites
http://www.biculturalfamily.org/research.html
Multilingual living magazine
Advice for bilingual families.
Resear ch on bilingualism, memory
http://www.songsforteaching.com/
Cd’s or song to buy
German, French, latin, Spanish
Chinese
http://www.education.com/activity/allgrades/preschool/?cid=57000.0000022&s_kwcid=TC|8363|preschool%20activities|www.everyth
ingpreschool.com|C|b|1451075185&gclid=CM_8z6qA4JoCFQOuFQodoF2Ozw
preschool activities
http://doumdoumdoum.free.fr/index.php?page=chant&id=51
Song karaoke version
http://comptine.free.fr/#R
French comptines et chansons
http://www.everythingpreschool.com/themes/colors/songs.htm
Themes, lessons plans
http://www.mamalisa.com/?p=785&t=fs&c=22
songs French, spanish, English
http://themamaternelle.free.fr/chansons.html
French everything sites
http://www.mes-english.com/flashcards/
make your own, Flash cards, games, and bingos, dice
http://www.version-karaoke.fr/playback-mp3/songs_l_4.html
Version Karaoke.
http://www.languageshaping.com/
Thematic units for 1rst-8th grade
http://www.montessoriforeveryone.com/Language-Materials_ep_60-1.html
Free Montessori download
http://www.toolsforeducators.com/dominoes/
Free domino maker all themes
http://iteslj.org/games/
Games for 3-12 grades classroom
http://a4esl.org/
Activite internet for any language second language.
http://iteslj.org/games/
Activities and games for the Foreign language classroom.
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