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SAGE PUBLISHING Using Circle Time To Learn About Stories 2007 Edition by Deed
Includes CD-RomBy combining the traditional classroom activity of reading stories with Circle Time, these activities provide students with opportunities to practise listening, expressing ideas, asking questions, using imagination, making predictions, experimenting with thinking and learning strategies and collaborating with other students. Each of the six stories in this book is linked to a series of key questions, games and activities. These help the students to explore the stories' contexts (time and place) and patterns (plot and choice) and to analyze the characters and their own emotional responses. All the stories and activities are easily printable from the accompanying CD-rom.Written for teachers in primary settings, this book is linked to the National Literary Strategy and the PSHE curriculum. Story-TimeWarm-upsTurning Questions into Games - Silent StatementsTurning Questions into Games - Complete the SentenceQuestions about Context - Time and PlaceActivities about Context - Time and PlaceQuestions about Patterns - Plot and PossibilitiesActivities about Patterns - Plot and PossibilitiesQuestions about Analysis - Characters, Feelings and BeliefsActivities about Analysis - Characters, Feelings and BeliefsStories and Sample Activity FormatsFlowers and ApplesSample Activities for Flowers and ApplesA Special Memory - Dad and His CowSample Activities for a Special Memory Dad and His CowMonkey Boy!Sample Activities for Monkey Boy!George Gets into TroubleSample Activities for George Gets into Trouble