Introduction
My goal was to create a Favola means fairy tale in Italian, and this activity creates a multilingual fairy tale in which famous characters from other fairy tales would explore their surroundings and meet. The focus of the activity is to develop the oral comprehension skills using movement and to have having fun while doing itso.
Target group and Time
This activity is suitable for a wide target group. According to the difficulty of the story to present, the target group could go to grade3 be from grade 3 to grade 6. This activity doesn't require a high level of competences or abilities, thus it can be done with young children. On the other hand, regardless of the grade, ability, but students should have a good english preparation command of English in order to be able to understand a the whole story in english. The lenght length of the story can vary, in any case this but should take about 10 minutes.
Learning objectives
Oral comprehension, direction vocabulary, following and performing motorial orders actions.
Instructions to set up the activity
Create the story or use a short story already invented. Create the symbols that represent the characters. For my story I drew 4 symbols:
- Little red riding hood: the Red Riding Hood: a girl dressed in red clothes and a wolf or a red hooded cape and the basket a basket
- Peter Pan: the a green hat with the leaf a leaf
- The three little pigsThree Little Pigs: three pig noses
- Sleeping Beauty: the sleeping beautya sleeping girl
Since the job of the students is to act out what the characters do, showing the signs during the story-telling helps the signs would help the students to understand which character to act out.
Find setting references in the space where the activity takes place. For example, if it the story takes place outside, spot a particular three, tree or a bush , ... to include in the story.
Letting it run
This activity is pretty easy to explain: the teacher reads or tells a story and the students have to act out the actions of the characters while the story is narrated.
The story can be invented or can already exists, the . The teacher can modify it along the way, according to students' reactions and capability. My story:Here is my story.
Cappuccetto Rosso's Afternoon Adventure
Once upon a time, there was a little girl (show Little red riding hood Red Riding Hood sign) who was walking through a wood and picking flowers from the ground because she had to go was going to her grandma's house to bring her marmalade and cookies. But this girl, whose name was Cappuccetto Rosso, was a the pretty distracted type and couldn't remember the right way. She looked left, she looked right. She looked down, she looked up at the sky. Oh, what was over there? A weird and funny creature was flying there (show Peter Pan sign). It was Peter Pan, a little boy who reeeeallly enjoyed flying up, and down, and up, and down.
She Cappuccetto Rosso asked him: heyHey, hey you. ! Can you help me? Where Which way should I go to get to my grandma?
He Peter Pan replied: just Just go past that big tree and turn left, and you will find your way.
So Cappuccetto Rosso (show Little red riding hood Red Riding Hood sign) went to the big tree, and turned left.
There she saw Tre Porcellini (show the three little pigs The Three Little Pigs sign) building three tiny houses. Tock, tock tock. “Hey, hey!” She called. Where should I go to get to my grandma??
And the Tre Porcellini replied: just do Just jump three jumps times forward, a twirl (show what a twirl is with a mimic), go right after that tree and you will find your way.
So she did three jumps, a twirl, and went right after the tree. But wait! She almost stepped on something! Or someone? There was a beautiful girl lying there, she was the Bella Addormentata. (show Sleeping Beauty sign). So she Cappuccetto Rosso called out to her and asked: Hey, hey hey , hey! Can you show me the way?
But she Bella Addormentata was sleeping so deeply and peacefully, that she didn’t wake up. So Cappuccetto Rosso (show Little red riding hood Red Riding Hood sign) decided to lie down beside her, enjoying enjoy the beautiful sky and postpone the trip to her grandma's house until tomorrow..
