When do we tell stories in everyday life?

What does story telling look like?

Story Telling can be broken into three categories. One often comes before the other!

• Retelling stories• Innovating stories• Creating stories

• Story telling• Story mapping• Story stepping• Story ‘playing’

Story Telling Skills

Telling a story

We are now going to tell the story of

the 3 little pigs.

Retelling a story

What matters when you retell a

story?

What do you have to include?

What can you omit?

The ‘non- negotiables’

Think of the story of the three little

pigs.

What is essential to the story?

What is ‘add-on’?

Non- negotiables

Non- negotiables

“Little pig, little pig, let me in.”

“Not by the hairs on my chinny chin chin.”

“I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your

house down.”

Up for grabs!

Story mapping

We are now going to story map the

story of the three little pigs.

Innovating a story

Innovating stories:It’s nothing new...

Innovating a story

Think of the story of the three little pigs.

What is the essence of the story?

What is negotiable?

Is there a difference between the essence of a story

when it is retold and when it is innovated?

“Little pig, little pig, let me

in.”

“Not by the hairs on my

chinny chin chin.”

“I’ll huff and I’ll puff and

I’ll blow your house

down.”

“Big tiger, big tiger, let me

drive away.”

“Not by the stripes on my

stripey tum tum.”

“I’ll wham and I’ll bam

and I’ll bash your car in.”

Story stepping

We are now going to story step our

new version of the three little pigs.

The non-negotiables of story-telling

Retelling InnovatingIdentify and keep:

• Main Characters• Beginning, middle and the end• Key Vocabulary

Change:

• Main Characters• Beginning, middle and the end• Location• Secondary characters• Key Language

Story Mountains

We are now going to create

a brand new story.

How do I create a story?

Where? Who? Problem

Obstacle Set back Helper

Solution Ending Meaning

How do I create a story for young children?