Collect and read myths and legends from a particular country or culture. Students keep a reading log and comment on the type of stories read. Students will select one of these stories for retelling. Explore the use of similes and metaphors to create images or word pictures to make text rich and interesting. Students will collaborate with others to listen to and retell stories, to tape stories and to collect stories from home.
Stories are to be linked with a commentary introducing the storyteller and the stories.
Suggest students compose music or use taped music to accompany taped stories. Encourage students to listen to each other's tapes from time to time. Students could suggest a selected taped story they are pleased with and would like someone else to listen to. Students can select the best of these taped stories to submit to Writers' Window as sound files. Oral Retelling - Story Telling Teacher models the retelling of a traditional story.