Teacher Produced PowerPoint stories for kindergarten, pre-primary and primary

[Chris Roland]

Hi there, my name's Chris, I teach for the British Council in Barcelona. I've written a set of 10 non-commercial downloadable powerpoint stories for classroom use with 3-6 year olds, native or non native learners of English. I have some friends in Russia who are Spanish teachers and they are also using the stories (as the files are modifiable powerpoint ones, you can just delete the text (there's already text free versions on the files) and add your own in whichever language you're teaching).

The stories are centred around two characters: Reg and Lellow (I decided to use minimal contrastive pairs, so Reg is red, Lellow yellow etc). Last month I put them on their own website as the best way to share them with other teachers.

I've workshopped the stories with some local primary teachers here in Spain, and added teaching ideas to the site, and some photos of the sessions (we used balloons to recreate the characters and act out the stories).

If teachers don't have a projector in class, the stories can be read to the group from a single computer screen, with the teacher switching slides just like they'd turn the pages in a book. If there is no computer, the teacher can draw the stories directly on the board as they tell them - I've included some of the original concept drawings in the 'Extra Materials' page so teachers can see just how easy they are to draw.

Finally, there's a version of one of the stories where all the characters have been made out of plasticene!

The stories are found in the 'Stories Here' section of the site at:

http://www.regandlellow.com

Chris

[Lorraine]

Love the concept of these stories. Quite difficult structures sometimes, so I'd defunitely wait a while to use them but thanks for sharing.

[Chris Roland]

Lorraine

Great stuff! Thanks! One thing. the second version of each story comes without text, so you can decide what structures to introduce. Also, if you download them to your own computer, you can modify the stories and insert your own text, grading for your particular class.

Best wishes

Chrisxxx

[Jo Rhys-Jones]

Thanks for sharing these Chris!

[Chris Roland]

No probs, and cheers Jo.