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LIVING, BREATHING, TELLING: USING IMPROVISED STORIES IN THE PRESCHOOL CLASSROOM Sheila Wee www.storywise.com.sg sheila@storywise.com.sg WATCH THIS. http://tinyurl.com/n7r7bwv Find a partner and describe what you just saw. This was an


  1. LIVING, BREATHING, TELLING: USING IMPROVISED STORIES IN THE PRESCHOOL CLASSROOM Sheila Wee www.storywise.com.sg sheila@storywise.com.sg

  2. WATCH THIS…. http://tinyurl.com/n7r7bwv

  3. Find a partner and describe what you just saw. This was an experiment carried out by behavioural psychologists in 1944. In the experiment 114 of 117 study participants described a story. "F. Heider and M. Simmel. An experimental study of apparent behaviour". American Journal of Psychology, 13, 1944.

  4. FIND A PARTNER Tell your partner about: How you got that scar • Or The best, or worst, present you have ever been given • Or A time that you were naughty as a child

  5. If we are feeling comfortable, our own stories flow out from us naturally and easily. http://weeknights.deviantart.com/art/A-Flow-of-Words-70447411

  6. We all have minds stuffed full of: memories facts emotions sensory impressions Photo: MattRobinson - https://www.flickr.com/photos/fumauk/3784567423/in/photostream/

  7. If we have a relaxed and playful attitude, our unconscious mind can supply us with a stream of material for improvising stories.

  8. THE INTERRUPTER

  9. THE BENEFITS OF CHILDREN LISTENING TO AND TELLING STORIES

  10. GIVE ME A WORD

  11. THE CHARACTER FIRST METHOD A Method For Creating Stories My thanks go to Kendall Haven for teaching me this method. www.kendallhaven.com

  12. STEP 1 DECIDE ON A CHARACTER It can be a human, an animal, or an object It must be a completely new character

  13. STEP 2 DEVELOP THAT CHARACTER Name Age Something about what he/she /it looks like Something about his/her/its personality

  14. STEP 3 DECIDE ON THE CHARACTER’S GOAL What does the character want to do, or want to have? It can be anything

  15. STEP 4 DECIDE ON THE OBSTACLE Why hasn’t the character got what he wanted?

  16. STEP 5 DECIDE HOW THE STORY IS GOING TO END There are two possible endings He doesn’t get He gets what what he he wants wants

  17. PAPER TEARING STORIES

  18. Record CREATE and/or Recall Read and/or Write Illustrate LINKING IMPROVISED Retell STORIES TO LITERACY

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