Storytelling

Storytelling allows the students to escape. The technique opens the door of imagination and creativity, which promotes throught and communication. Students enjoy good vs. evil, as there is a challenge to the human spirit. I think that any lesson that opens the mind to a world of make believe stimulates the brain and increases the need to talk about the situation, and for the ELL student this is vital for their language development. I choose the 2 activities because they encourage students to observe 2 very different elements, fairy and witch, plus they enhance the students vocabulary through comparative form, and descripition. In addition the activities are whole class, pair, and small group instruction. Lastly the lessons open the door to oral and written communication.

Fairy Tale People- Language Focus-Comparatives and superlatives Skill Focus-Listening for details Thinking Focus-Sequencing Teaching focus-Promote accuracy Interaction-Whole class

Procedure- 1. Read about magical fairy tale people. 2. Students will listen and write the names of the people in order of size-starting with the smallest and ending with the largest. 3. Studetns will have paper with horizontal lines across their page and place the magical people along the line as teacher reads. 4. Fairy Tale People Script- The students will write with a pencil and place the fairy tale people according to the descripition that is read. 5. The teacher will read the sentences one more time for the students to check their answers. 6. The students will read and compare their work with a partner. Fairt Tale People-Fairy, Frog, Robot, Witch, Pirate, Giant, Monster
 * The fairy is the smallest
 * The monster is the biggest
 * The giant is smaller than the monster and bigger than the pirate
 * The frog is bigger than the fairy and smaller than the robot
 * The robot is bigger than the frog and smaller than the witch
 * The witch is smaller than the pirate

Contrating fairies and witches- Language focus-Antonyms, adjectives Skill focus-Dictionary use Thinking focus-Differentiating Teaching Approach-Promote creativity Interaction-Pairwork, or whole class Preparation-On the board, draw a grid and write the headings-

port || Size || Tools for Magic || Pets ||
 * || Type of Magic || Appear-ance || Clothes || Trans
 * Fairies

Witches || Good, kind

Bad, evil || Beautiful Cute, pretty

Ugly, thin, large nose || Bright, Colorful Pink dresses

Black-skirt or dress, hat || Wings

broom || Small

Height same as people || Wand

spells || None

Black cat ||

1. Discuss with the children that fairies and witches are both female with magical powers, they are very different. 2. Refer to the above chart and ask the students, in pairs, to help you complete the grid. Encourage them to use their dictionaries and class wallcharts to add a variety of descriptors. 3. The students will srite sentences about how these two magical females differ. Tell them that //but// is a good contrast word to join their ideas, i.e. //Fairies are kind and good, but witches are bad and evil.// //4.// Discuss with students about stories that they have read about with good and bad fairies and witches. They will write a new grid and describe their characters.