「あなたの中に眠るストーリーテラーを呼び起こしましょう」

This ongoing class meets 2X a week for eight weeks as learners listen to different stories each week. This class is designed especially for learners ages 6-9 years old who have a basic understanding of English and want to learn more, improve their English and speaking skills and have the desire to become a great story teller, whether they know it or not. Learners listen, think and predict what will happen next, how the story will end, what changes they would make, could they be a character in the story? or do they know someone who is like one of the characters? 

These are teacher-directed lessons, each story read aloud by the Teacher as learners listen and participate by answering questions about what's going on in the story. Learners will follow Teacher directions to fold and number their drawing paper into sections to draw what's happening in the story, practice speaking English by participating in discussing the beginning, middle, end of the story, what happened first, second, last; naming characters, retelling and predicting, and changing characters, settings and endings using their creativity and imagination.    

Learners will be given the opportunity to practice basic public speaking in a small, comfortable setting by retelling the story. Book titles and themes vary week-to-week so new learners can at enroll any time. 

SPECIAL NOTE TO PARENTS: Shy learners may want to just listen to the story being read [story time] and draw their own pictures until they feel comfortable joining in discussions and responding in English.  

"Bring Out the Story Teller In You" Reading List: ***
• Week One: Stone Soup by Tony Ross
• Week Two: How to Catch a Dinosaur by Adam Wallace & Andy Elkerton
• Week Three: Pecos Bill by Steven Kellogg
• Week Four: Chicken Little by Steven Kellogg
• Week Five: Paul Bunyan by Steven Kellogg
• Week Six: Ricky, the Rock That Couldn't Roll by Mr. Jay
• Week Seven: A Frog Ate My Sandwich by Christine Durkin
• Week Eight: Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann
• Week Nine: Tyrannosaurus Hex and the Unluckiest Day Ever by Mr. Jay Miletsky
• Week Ten: Think Big [The Live Big Series] by Kat Kronenberg
• Week Eleven: The WORST Day of My Life EVER! by Julia Cook
• Week Eleven: I Don't Want to Go to School by A. J. Cosmo

*** Additional titles may be added or substituted.