Developing Children's Speech, Language and Communication Through Stories and Drama

Introduction



Section One: The Theory





How The Programme Works



Who Can Use This Programme?



Links to National Curriculum



Evidence



Language and Learning Techniques for Running a Session



The Drama Part



The Story Square



Structure of Sessions



Evaluation and Assessment








Section Two: The Practice





Warm Ups



The Very Hungry Caterpillar



The Rainbow Fish



Room on the Broom



The Shopping Basket



Owl Babies



The Frog Prince



The Three Billy Goats Gruff



Cleversticks



The Gingerbread Man



Funny Bones



Whatever Next



Handa's Surprise



The Ugly Duckling



Rosie's Hat




Year Two





The Owl and the Pussycat



Hairy Mclairy



Dogger



The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark



Avocado Baby



Jack and the Beanstalk



Childs Own Story



Example Session Around a Child's Story




Key Stage Two:





George's Marvellous Medicine



Aesop's Fables



Where The Wild Things Are



Topic: The Romans



Topic: Ancient Egypt



The Story of Cleopatra




References



Story References



Appendix A: Evaluations



Appendix B: Evaluation examples



Appendix C: Pre and post assessment forms



Appendix D: Punctuation symbols



Appendix E: Story component cards