Make your stories come alive by extending them around your classroom. Here are some quick ideas to extend story time all day long.
DRAMATIZATIONS - Let your children take turns acting out the stories after they have been read.
PANTOMINING - Let your children take turns pantomiming different characters in your story.
GAMES – Make up games based on the story. You could make board games, have races, etc.
COOKING – Let your children help you make a food item mentioned in a story.
RECALLING STORIES - Have your children help you recall the story in the proper sequence.
SEQUENCE CARDS – Make sequence cards for your children to take turns placing them in the proper order.
CLASS BOOK - Let your children each illustrate a page of the story, to make a group picture story book.
FRIEZE - Use the colored pictures from above to make a frieze along a wall in your room.
ORDERING - Have your children help you remember what happened at the beginning, the middle and at the end of the story.
NEW ENDINGS – Have your children offer suggestions for different endings for your story.
PUPPETS – Set out materials for your children to make paper bag puppets of the story characters.
NUMBER BOOK - Make a number book based on the characters, animals or objects in the story.
COUNTERS - Set out number counters based on objects in the story.
SONGS - Let your children help you create songs based on the story. Make parodies of favorite childhood tunes.
SIZE DISCRIMINATION – Discuss objects, or characters in the story. Ask which one was larger, smaller, etc.