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Session 2: Big Kits

Now you've got the background in the importance of quality interactions we learnt about in Session 1, it's time to really get stuck into storytelling! Grab the Big Bags and start telling stories with the children as a group. In this session, we'll talk through the symbols, how to model stories and bring in ideas for the children to lead from.

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Hello, welcome back to session two.

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Today you are going to start using our resources.

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So get ready for creative, fun storytelling

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and just wait to be astounded

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by the difference you'll see in your children.

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Last session we talked about how important it is

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to develop quality interactions with children.

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In early years Tale's Toolkit has quality interactions at

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the core of everything we develop.

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So throughout today's training, keep in mind those top tips.

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Let the child lead tune in.

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Careful use of language, careful use of questioning.

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By the end of today's training, I want you to understand how

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to tell a simple story

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and how tell Toolkit developed skills.

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Part one, how to tell a simple story.

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Today we're going to be showing you the first of the Tales,

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toolkit, resources, and there's lots more to come,

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but using our Tales toolkit, big kit is the first step

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to set children up as creative storytellers.

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The big kit comes with four large bags with Velcro seals,

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so they're safe for even the youngest children to use.

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And these come with an outer bag so

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that you can hang the whole lot up in the cupboard

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so your special bits don't go walkabout.

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The four Velcro bags are labeled with the symbols.

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Character setting problem Solution.

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These symbols are key.

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They're on all of our resources and are really clear.

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So very young children, those with little language

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and not yet reading are able to recognize them.

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Children are encouraged to pull different items from the

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bags and together you create stories

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and bring them to life as in action.

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Voices and sounds. Tales talk.

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Its symbols shown while saying the words character

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setting problem.

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Solution are quickly learned

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by children working at different levels.

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This repetition of words, symbols,

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and story strengthen those neural pathways in the brain

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and they become really easy to remember pegs

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for the children to hang stories on. So what

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Tales Toolkit offers is a framework

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for supporting children's first steps in making up stories,

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imaginative play, putting ideas together and into sequences.

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And that sort of framework can be hugely

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helpful to children.

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This is a powerful tool giving the children freedom

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to create stories with familiar items.

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Introduce the bags to the children.

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So today we are not gonna tell a story using a book.

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What we gonna use

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Storytelling.

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We are gonna do storytelling with the bags,

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with our tells toolkit.

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Bags, don't worry too much about the children.

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Remembering the names of the bags.

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The symbols and the story structure.

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This will develop over time.

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As the children become familiar with how the bags are used,

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encourage the children to say the names of the bags with you

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and they'll quickly pick this up.

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Should we do it together?

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Character setting,

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Start with the character bag

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Character. Is

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this our character bag? Yeah.

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Choose one of the children

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to pull a character from the bag

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and at the start you take control of the props,

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especially in larger groups as its key.

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You bring the stories to life, make the character talk,

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move dance, modeling this before the children have a go.

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Encourage the children to tell you about the character.

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Remember though careful use of questioning.

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Hmm, I wonder who this is. I'd like to know their name.

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Keep stories simple.

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Just chat about one

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or two things that the character likes to do.

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Shall we look in the setting bag to see

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where our character is going today? Adam

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Said it's a very sparkly place.

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Where could it be? Uh,

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It could be in the garden.

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This one is, it's a green

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GL shop. gl

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The Glitter shop and model your thinking.

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Ooh, the material is green.

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I'm trying to think of a place that's green

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tricky, then talk about what the character will do here.

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Sarah and a teddy bear went to the kit shop

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and what do you think she did at the kit shop?

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The setting fabric is spread out in the center

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of the group and you can use the fabric like a parachute

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to bounce the character or make waves for the sea.

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And the characters having a great time

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enjoying themselves when, oh no a problem.

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Children love this phrase,

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so make a big deal outta this dun dun dun.

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A problem. Encourage the children

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to tell you why the prop is a problem.

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Hmm. I'm to think why this is a problem

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and have lots of fun acting it out together.

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Ask the children if they have any suggestions of

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how to solve the problem.

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How can we help and always have a go at solving the problem

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together before using the solution bag.

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And when you come across obstacles

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and nothing seems to work, let's look in the solution bag

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to see if there's anything to help.

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Hmm, I wonder how this will help.

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How will it help to solve the problem?

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And when you come to the end of the story

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and the problem is solved, finish

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with They lived happily ever after.

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Now it's your turn

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to have a go at telling a tells toolkit story.

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We've created a sheet with a can of comments

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and questions that you can ask

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and your facilitator has some kits with props inside.

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You have seven minutes.

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Is there anyone brave enough to share their story?

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You are all ready to tell a tales.

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Talk it story with your children.

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Now let us think about the kind

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of things we can put inside the bags.

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Some teachers only add one item

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to each bag when they first tell stories

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so they know exactly what is coming out.

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Other teachers add three

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or four items to each bag

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so the children can put their hands in

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and feel different textures before pulling a prop out.

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If you add three or four items to the bags,

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you can tell lots of stories without having

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to change the resources inside.

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To begin, we recommend you use obvious props,

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things you can easily tell a story

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with without stretching your imagination.

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As the children become used to the structure, add items

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that will extend their thinking.

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So why is a baby a problem or a fairy?

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The bag that children find most difficult

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is the setting bag.

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At first, we recommend you use fabric which can be touched,

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moved, used like a parachute stretch to cover the floor,

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to give you room to act out your story.

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Use simple colors to start that depict obvious settings.

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So blue for the Seaside River or an ice palace.

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Green for the forest or mountain.

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Keep tricky fabrics such as red or purple

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and complicated patterns

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for when children are familiar with the story structure.

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You can also use large sheets of colored and patterned paper

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and wallpaper samples at the start.

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Children's stories are repetitive

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and the same storylines will emerge time and time again.

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It's important to continue

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to let the children lead the stories.

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In one school, the problem was always biting monsters.

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Cats, monkeys always biting. You are the facilitator.

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So challenge the thinking with the objects that you provide.

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Add something that doesn't bite a magic wand or a feather.

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Once children are familiar with the structure,

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then add open-ended imagination provoking items

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and absolutely anything can be used

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and we really mean anything.

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Hello, this Howie says hello, it's Howie Shakes hands.

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Hello. How

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Put things in the kit that link to their interests?

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Favorite characters like Spider-Man, Elsa

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or Lightning McQueen, their favorite toys

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and even a picture of themselves

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or their teacher, whatever, will hold their interest

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and raise the levels of engagement

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and make links with the cultures

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of your children's families.

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So different cooking items and fabrics

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and things that the children will see at home.

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If they are interested in Minecraft

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or Angry Birds like Jacob for example,

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he'll bring it into his stories,

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but then he'll extend it to something that he hasn't seen

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or hasn't experienced.

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And he's realizing that that those things

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that are really familiar and favored

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to him can actually be extended

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In your groups. I

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want you to think about the different resources

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that you can include in your tails.

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Toolkit bags. What are your children interested in?

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What will engage them?

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What kind of objects do they see at home?

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And think about the cultures for the families you work with.

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And note down the kind of things that you are gonna put.

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Intel's toolkit bags.

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And we have a sheet for you to make those notes on.

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So we've talked about how to use Tales Toolkit

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to tell a simple story.

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In part two we'll discuss how Tales toolkit develop skills.

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Before we go any further, I want to introduce you

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to the Tales Toolkit principles that will help you

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to provide quality interactions using our resources.

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These will be used right across our training

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and you'll become really familiar with them.

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And the principles are safe, space

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led, and fun.

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The first principle is Safe space.

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And the two things to think about are value all answers

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and take away the pressure.

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So value all answers when using Tell's toolkit value.

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Whatever the child gives, let them explore their ideas.

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No idea or suggestion is wrong. What

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Do you think Sarah? The

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teddy bear likes to do Running. Running.

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Oh, should we get our legs ready?

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Sit on your bottoms, get your legs ready. Oh, you ready?

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I love to run.

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This is particularly important

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for the children we spoke about in session one,

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who hear mainly discouragement at home.

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Initially they lack confidence,

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but as they see all answers are valued,

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their confidence will grow and involvement will increase

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and take away the pressure.

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Let your children engage

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with Tell's toolkit at their own pace

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and observe for as long as they need to.

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Often children join in with actions and sounds

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and build up to offering an idea.

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This is okay. It's really important.

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Tell's Toolkit is a safe space where the pressure of having

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to interact is removed.

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And as children grow in confidence,

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you'll be amazed at the ideas that emerge.

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The next principle is Child-led.

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The key elements here are step back and add thinking.

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So step back. The stories are created by the children.

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Your role is facilitator

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Ibrahim, what have you made?

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A crane. A crane. A crane.

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Don't expect your children

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to be imaginative storytellers overnight.

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It's really important you give them time

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to develop their stories.

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In the same way children reread stories over

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and over again, then they may revisit themes in their

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tells toolkit stories.

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There's gonna be small steps

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that happen over time and ad thinking.

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Your role is to run with the children's ideas.

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Encourage them to deepen their thinking

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and provoke curiosity through the resources you add

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and the language you use.

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Leon have Lady Bird's got big or small voices?

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little voice, but this one's got big wings.

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Are you ready? Could you help her to join in

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to say shoe to the cow?

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Allow, adapt, add, allow the children

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to take the lead in their stories, adapt the resources

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to fit their interests.

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Topics you're covering and challenge ideas

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and add language to extend

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and get the children thinking, Hmm, I wonder

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how ooh, what if?

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The key elements here are allow silly

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ideas and get involved.

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head, then go with it.

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You know your children and are the best judge

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of when they need pulling back in

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and how much you can be silly with them. No

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Right or wrong way of step of telling a story.

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the more spontaneous you make it.

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The more silly, even

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the nonsensical side of the storytelling.

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That's what makes it unique.

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And get involved in their ideas. Be active.

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Use silly voices model and join in with actions.

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In one story, the solution was being flushed down the toilet

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and we had lots of fun making whooshing noises

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and spinning around together.

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Pretending to be flushed away.

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Tell's toolkit, developed quality interactions

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with the children leading to improvements in language,

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creativity, and social skills.

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We are going to explore now how the three principles

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of a safe space letting the child lead

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and fun fit with this.

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So using tell's toolkit to develop language,

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let's start with safe space.

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Take away the pressure to join in.

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Children are at different stages

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and they don't have to use words to communicate.

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They can listen, watch and join in with actions and gesture

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and build up to using sounds and words.

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Make sure you provide lots of opportunities for action, song

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and sound so

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that all children at different levels can join in.

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Let the Child Lead using tell's toolkit,

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children can tell stories with very low levels of language.

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I saw, I saw, wow. Oh a dinosaur feels like

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A dinosaur.

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Enter into their stories.

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Strengthening and firing up those brain pathways.

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Wet green grass. Oscar. Sloppy.

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Sloppy. I like that one. That story sounds amazing.

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So gassed on the lady bird.

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Ooh, looking for a fence in the wet,

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sloppy green grass.

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with very low language

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and understanding can tell a basic story

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In the snow.

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The snow. Okay. Problem. Problem.

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Wow. It's a dragon. A dragon. Oh no.

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When you follow the chars lead

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and interests the you really up the levels of engagement

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and hits all three points at the roots

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of the communication tree.

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Using tell's toolkit and fun.

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Have fun with language and sounds.

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Use silly noises and sound effects

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and use your voice to add to the story.

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So a grumpy voice or an accent or a pirate.

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Hello. Hello everybody. My name is

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Pepper Pig.

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Now it's your turn.

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Can you turn to the person next to you

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and tell them what you had for breakfast in the voice

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of a monster,

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use only voice sounds

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and actions to model to the person next to you

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what you might do at the beach or the park.

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children's language development.

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This was the first story from a nursery boy is the Dragon.

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this was the story that he told once upon a time,

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their crocodile in a sparkly house.

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The problem was bear the bear sad crocodile

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the bear share glasses

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and share friends tell's toolkit also develops creativity.

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So let's start with safe space.

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When there are no wrong answers

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and children are free to explore their own story ideas,

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they will increasingly come up with imaginative, unusual,

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and seemingly random ideas which they know

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will be taken seriously.

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It's the grass. It's beautiful colored grass isn't it?

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Isn't a farm it nonsense land?

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It could be nonsense land. Yeah. What do you think?

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Nonsense land. It could be on farm, a farm in nonsense land.

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For a child who has little language

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they may move the character around

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to show you what they want to happen.

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Pay careful attention to their body language and gesture

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and take on the ideas they suggest.

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A willingness to share

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and test ideas is the first step to being creative.

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Testing and adapting ideas which features in the

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characteristics of effective learning

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also helps to build resilience.

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And child-led the Torrance test.

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We mentioned in session one involves coming up with lots

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of different uses for an everyday item.

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So for example, what could this brick be?

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or a paperweight block, a mouse hole, heat it up

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and use it as a bed warmer or a nutcracker.

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you'll support the children in creating different ways

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to use everyday items.

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So how was a whisk a character

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or crinkly foil a problem Through this initial support,

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you set the children up

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to be far more imaginative When they create stories

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and use Intel's toolkit, they can tell stories

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with anything anywhere.

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My Mr. Squash is getting

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potatoes falling down on his head.

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Oh, how can I help you? A potato

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Your role as facilitator is to take those random

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creative ideas that the children give you

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and bring them to life through story.

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When a child suggests a stone is a puppy

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or relief a rocket, then you need to use all

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of your acting skills to bring this to life

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and help the child enter the world of story.

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Use silly voices, make the props, move dance, jump

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and get the children involved using movement.

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Use song to up the levels of engagement

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and provide opportunities for learning.

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Music's really great for storytelling

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Just generally. And tails,

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toolkits.

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It's such a nice structure,

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such an easy soft structure to use.

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It fits really, really well. Use rhythm and to use voice

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and spoken words and make it characterful.

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If you are gonna do singing,

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if you're confident doing singing,

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using tunes you already know.

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So wheels on the bus, for instance, might be good

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or row, row, row your boats. What shall

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We do with the sleepy animals?

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What shall we do with the sleepy animals?

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What shall we do with the sleepy animals?

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Early in the morning,

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Songs are often repetitive

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and this supports the children in your group

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with low levels of language.

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When it comes to songs, be creative.

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If you don't feel comfortable singing it, then just say it.

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And you can make this more interesting

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by using body percussion to tap

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or clap along, finding rhythm in your words.

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And repeat lines so children can join in. There's

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Always a bump bump where's always a bump

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Bump? Now it's

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your turn. So take a familiar tune

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and make up your own song about a pig who likes to ink.

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And make sure you add body percussion and voice sounds

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Happy and you know it gave, if you're happy

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and you know it gave or night, if you're happy

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and you know it, you wanna show it you're happy

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and you know it gave or

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Using these three principles,

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the children's stories will become increasingly creative.

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Tells toolkit to develop social skills.

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Let's start with safe space stories.

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Bring emotions to life

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and help children to understand their own

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feelings and those of others.

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The first stage of developing empathy in young children is

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to help them recognize emotions.

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Tell's Toolkit is a safe context in which to allow

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and explore feelings.

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And when using tell's toolkit, take every opportunity

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to draw attention to the feelings in the stories.

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Talk about the character's feelings.

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The fox seemed very angry. Use facial expressions.

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Say the feeling word and act out the feeling with props.

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All of these combined will help children

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to develop a feeling vocabulary.

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And over time you'll start to see more emotions

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explored in the children's stories and child led.

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When children have told a story from the character's

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perspective, try swapping the character

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and the problem round the child still takes a lead in the

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storytelling, but this encourages them

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to tell the story from another angle

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and it can lead to very interesting discussions.

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So what would happen if the big bad wolf is the character

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and Red Riding Hood is the problem?

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Was the wolf really bad or was he just hungry?

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It certainly stimulates thinking

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and fun when you are acting silly and having fun

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and really showing your sense of humor.

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Often the children are more relaxed, engaged,

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and you'll see them at their most confident.

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to children's confidence through using Tell's toolkit.

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And this is often because they really want to join in

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and have their ideas taken on.

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who are very shy, particularly girls.

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Um, and this gave them the confidence to speak more, um,

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but also to express.

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I found after a little while with Charles Toolkit,

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they were expressing their ideas and their feelings

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and their thoughts, uh, a lot more as well.

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Not just their stories and their imagination.

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Allowing every scenario

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and all feelings means children can explore serious issues

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and real life problems in safe and fun ways.

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Using Tell's Toolkit, children start

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to look at story from another's perspective

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and you'll see less violence

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and more pro-social elements in your children's stories.

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Before you start using Tell's toolkit, get together

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as a group and think about

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how you are gonna deal with violence.

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Different schools have different views on this,

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so it's best you make the decision

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and it's very easy to appear disapproving.

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We find it quite a loaded thing to deal with

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because we have a lot of associations around violence.

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We know it makes people feel sad. We know it hurts people.

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We know that the damage it's gonna inflict

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preschool is kind of don't.

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of their everyday repertoire.

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that there are alternatives and that's, that's great.

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So we, we accept what they're doing

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and say, alright, so clearly you know, you,

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you weren't happy with that situation

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or you know, your friend didn't want you to do that.

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That's why they fished you away. What else could we do?

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How else could we tell them

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that we're not happy with what's happening?

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So we can use it, I think and accept it

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and don't necessarily, we don't need to run in and judge,

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but we can accept it

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and then use it as a basis

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to explore different alternatives.

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Children are like sponges

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and you'll be surprised at

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how much they pick up from the

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things that happen around them.

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There's lots they'll hear from background

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TV and discussions.

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Story and role play are one of the ways

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that children make sense of the world they live in.

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When your children are confident using Tell's Toolkit

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and know their ideas are valued, you may want

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to discuss the impact of their suggestions.

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One class told a story in which they solved the problem

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of a biting bear by killing it.

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Another child said, but his mom will be really sad.

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And this led to a discussion

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where we talked about alternative solutions

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we might try in the future.

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This wouldn't have been anywhere near

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as powerful if first the children hadn't

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experienced killing the bear.

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Think about what you will do if the solution each

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time is kill him.

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It can be really confusing for a child if it's okay

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to kill the problem crocodile, but not the problem fairy.

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Or it's all right to put the spider in

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the bin and throw 'em away.

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But when you suggest the same for a baby,

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then that's a big problem.

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So in your groups, have a think about how you are gonna deal

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with violence when it comes up in stories.

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We've created a sheet for you to make some notes,

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but you don't have to write anything down.

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So you are all set up ready to tell Tales, toolkit stories.

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Remember those three key principles.

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Create a safe space where suggestions are valued.

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Let the child lead and have lots of fun.

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We recommend over the next month.

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You use Tell's Toolkit Big bags at least once a week

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with all the children so they become

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familiar with the structure.

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This should fit easily into your story

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time or group sessions.

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Using Intel's toolkit,

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you'll see improvements in the children's language,

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creativity, and social skills.

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The storytelling you provide now is setting your children up

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to be curious, creative adults

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with good communication skills and the best bit

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because it's led by the children,

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there's virtually no planning.

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You just pick up the bags and go

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and who knows where your stories will lead.
 

Nursery Group Story

Kate leads a group story with this nursery setting. As well as modelling for the children, Kate is also incorporating a variety of creative approaches. Using songs, actions and phonic sounds.

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Who knows the name of this man?

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The character. Can we all say that together? Character.

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You it. Oh, who is it? Who's the character?

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Who is it? It's Elsa. Can I have her? I like El.

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It's Elsa from Frozen. Can you say hello everybody?

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My name is Elsa. Can you wave? Say hello, Elsa. Hello, Elsa.

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Well, she's gonna give you a little wave. Hello everybody.

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There she is. What does Elsa like doing? She's freezing.

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She likes freezing. Yes. Shall we do some freezing together?

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Right? You gotta get your big freezing hands out.

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Get 'em all warmed up. Warm your fingers up.

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Warm your hands up. Are you ready?

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And we're gonna do a great big freeze.

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We're gonna count from five down,

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and we're gonna do a great big freeze.

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5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 3.

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That's it. Freeze your friends. Freeze me.

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Freeze the teacher. Sydney can freeze El

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Alfred there.

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She's getting frozen. What else does Elsa like to do?

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She likes living in Ice Castle.

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She likes living in her ice castle.

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Should we build her an ice castle? Yes. Are you ready?

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Right. So we're gonna build an ice castle.

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We're gonna sit her there and she's gonna watch us do it.

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How do we build an ice castle? We need sand. We do. Right?

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And we need ice. And we need ice, right?

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So everybody get a big, big mountain of sand.

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Give it a bit of a pat and I ready.

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We're gonna get some ice on top.

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Get your freezing fingers out, get them warmed up.

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And we're gonna make an ice castle.

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Make it tall. Right up to the sky.

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There it is. A great big ice castle.

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Let's make the door right, everybody.

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And we make the steps and the rooms.

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And we forgot to make the steps and the rooms.

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Are you ready? Got to make the door. Got to make the door.

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Got to make the steps. Got to make the steps.

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Got to make the rooms. Got to make the rooms.

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Got to make the room. Got to make the room.

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What else did I forget? All furniture.

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Got to make all of the furniture. Windows.

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Got to make the windows. So we can look through them.

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Anything else we've forgotten? Chimney. A plate.

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Got to make the plates. And chimney.

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Got to make the chimney right to the sky's. This sparkled.

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The setting. The setting.

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Would you like to put your hand in? See where she's going?

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She's not going to the ice palace.

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She's going somewhere different.

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Where's this? Do you have a look?

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Would you like to have a little feel? Yes.

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Like slimy. It feels a little bit slimy.

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Can you think of somewhere that's slimy? A swamp.

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It's soft and slimy. It's a swamp.

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Oh, sit back on your bottom as we're going to the swamp.

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What do you think that Elsa likes to do at the swamp?

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Jump in it. Do you think she's gonna jump in it?

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Oh look, it's a swamp.

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A squishy, slimy swamp. Can you say that with me?

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Squishy, slimy swamp.

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I'm going to put some magic on my dress

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so it doesn't get booed.

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Betty, everyone, we're gonna get our feet

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and we're gonna put them in the S swamp.

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Get your feet out. Are you ready? What noise will they make?

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Squ, squ. Squelch, squelch.

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Squelch. Squelch. Squelch. Squelch. Can you do that fast?

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Squelch, squelch squelch. Qu qu qu qu qu squelch.

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Qu que I'm really slow. Squelch squelch. Squelch.

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Squelch. That's it. And put your feet back again.

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And there she is. Squelching in a swamp.

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In a big slimy swamp. When? Oh, what's this bag?

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It's the problem bug. Oh no. Oh, guy. You brave?

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Yeah. I'm brave. Can you put your hand in here? I'm brave.

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Can I do this? Oh, I'd be able to. Oh, oh, oh.

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I see something furry.

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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, guy.

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This looks a little bit scary.

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Can you show me your scary faces? Look at this.

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It's a problem. Can you say that with me? It's a problem.

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Why is the spider going to be a problem for El?

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'cause Karen. 'cause she's gonna,

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he's gonna catch him on his ribs.

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And I was Elsa having a lovely time.

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Que squiring when creep.

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Okay, spider,

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can you tip tap on your knees like this? Creep,

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Creep, creep, creep, creep, creep, creep,

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creep, creep.

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Creep, creep, creep.

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Oh, oh. Was that you There? She was squelch.

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Squiring in the

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Spider.

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There's no spider. Are you, are you listening with me?

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Right? I'm, I'm gonna go back to squelching in the mud.

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Squelch. Squelch. Where's the spider?

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Oh My goodness. There is a spider. I, I don't like it.

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What can I do? Right? I'm I'm gonna freeze it.

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Everyone get your freezing fingers out.

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Give them a warm, give them a warm, give them a warm.

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That's it. Come on. Moving. Get your fingers moving. Right?

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5 4, 3, 2, 1

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oh oh oh.

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And rose a spider.

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So you could move, but do you know what

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that spider put your hands down.

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The spider was much too Wrigley.

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And he wiggle and he giggled and he giggled.

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And he kicked off all of the ice until it had all gone.

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Oh, that was such a good idea. But it didn't work.

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You should, Ooh, would you like to do the solution?

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Put your hand in this. Why can I do this?

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Maybe you could do it next time.

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I, I think we're gonna be doing lots more stories. Can do.

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Oh, what's this? A magic magic wand. Magic. A magic wand.

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How's the magic wand going to help us?

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Mommy, you, you pass it over. Mommy.

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How's the magic wand going to help us spider into an animal?

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Turn the spider into an animal. Right?

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Do you know what then? So I want you

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to all get your magic fingers out.

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Kiss. I'm dancing with the spider

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before we make him disappear.

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Yeah. Yeah. Are you ready?

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So little spider dances on my head.

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He dances little spider dances on my head.

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He dances on my head. Head, head.

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Little spider dances.

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Get your own spiders out and put them on your head.

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Are you ready? Little spider dances on my bottom.

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He dances Little spider dances on my bottom.

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He dances on my bottom, bottom. Bottom. On my knee. Knee.

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Knee on my head. Head. Head. The spider dances.

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But you know what, we're gonna be really horrible

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and we're going to use a magic spell to make

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that spider go away.

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Everybody. We need some magic words. Get your Ws out.

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Your, we're gonna do some really

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big movements.

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Aika, Deborah. Even bigger and really fast.

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Aika. Deborah. Deborah.

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And what happened to the spider? It turned into this freeze.

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Frozen. Frozen. Oh, oh.

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Let me hold that. Oh, oh, oh.

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I can't move. Hello everybody. I can't, I can't move.

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I'm frozen. Oh, oh. Oh, oh. Oh.

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What should we do with him now? I don't like time out. No.

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What, what it means to not be naughty.

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What do I have to do to be nice to, sorry.

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I have to say sorry. Toa.

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Will she be nice to me if I say sorry? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, okay.

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Buta. Hello? Uh, hello, Mr.

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Spider. Uh, I'm very sorry. Can I be your friend Please?

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And we'll play together. Um,

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do you promise you won't jump on me and tickle me?

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'cause I didn't like it? Uh, I, I do promise. Okay.

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Shall we unfreezing? Yes. Right?

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Everyone get your magic fingers out.

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And we're gonna do one last time.

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5, 4, 3, 2, 1 oh

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oh, oh, oh oh.

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And you know what? This five

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and Princess Elsa played happily together

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and lived happily ever.
 

Under 3s Group Story

This group story with the littlest of people shows how they quickly grasp the story structure. This practitioner takes her time embedding the use of the symbols while keeping the children really engaged with voices, songs and actions.

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This one, the character.

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Do you remember our other character?

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Then we've got the puppy Solution.

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Solution. And then we've got Setting The Setting.

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We're done. Laura, worry about character. A character.

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Do you want to put your hand in and take the character?

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What's the story about today? Who's this? Frog?

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Oh, that's it.

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So it's a story about a, a green frog.

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Let's have a look at earth.

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Have we got now the

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setting Saskia turn.

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Ah, wow. What does this look like? Grass.

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It looks like grass does, doesn't it? We lay it down.

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Put your hands on it. Let's put it down nicely.

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Shall we have a feel? Let's feel. Ooh.

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What does that feel like? Dinosaur. What does it feel like?

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Ice saw. Eyes saw.

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Oh, a dinosaur feels like a dinosaur. Yeah, it does.

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It does. Yeah, but love feels like normal leaves.

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Does it? It feels like normal leaves because it's soft

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and then it goes up like a bump.

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It's all bumpy. Bumpy.

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Bump it goes.

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I know, but how are we gonna start our story?

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We going to say once upon A There was

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car pine.

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Yeah, there was a flock jumping.

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Oh, was he jumping right? Then I better put my hand in.

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Here we go. Is he jumping high or low? No, low.

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Higher. Oh, higher. There we go.

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Who will turn? Let's see

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how high the frog can jump on the grass.

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Are you ready? We are gonna say jump.

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Little frog. Jump, jump, jump jump, jump jump,

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jump jump, jump, jump.

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Little frog, jump, jump, jump,

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jump and stop.

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Woo. Well done.

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Good passing again. Should we sing? Should we go faster?

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Jump very fast. Jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump,

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jump, jump, jump.

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Very fast. Jump, jump, jump, jump

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and stop your turn.

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Is he gonna jump? Is he gonna skip?

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Is he gonna run? What's he going do now?

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The one skip. He's gonna skip. Go on then Skip.

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Get a frog. Skip, skip, skip again.

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Skip, skip, skip. Not yet.

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Have I got a white? This white.

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Tell me. Ready?

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Skip, skip, skip, skip, skip, skip,

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skip, skip, skip, skip.

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What's he going to do

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To hide? Go

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on there. Shadow me.

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Be, oh, look at that.

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Oh, now we have, what have we got now?

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Dun, dun, dun.

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It's a problem. It's a problem. Lara.

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Let Lara see what the, she can pull it out

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and we can all see what is the problem.

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Look, take it out. Ah, a fox.

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Wow. Look at this. Who's this? A fox.

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Fox. Now I wonder why the fox is a problem for the frog.

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What do you think? Small is very small. Now the fox

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Is Big, right?

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because he's very tiny and small, he could

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Or he could Bite

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and the frog was jumping in the green grass.

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You hold the fox, but both of you can hold it.

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The frog's jumping in the green grass

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and the fox is, what's the fox doing in the gym?

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Oh, now where's the frog? It's in his belly.

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Eat him all up.

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The, The solution.

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Lara. Alana, should I say what's in the bag?

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So what can we do to make this better?

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What's inside? Oh, what is that?

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You're gonna put the bowl on the green grass.

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Hide the frog. Laura. Hiding. Now the fox feels very sad.

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What? Because he's eaten the frog

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and he didn't mean to eat him.

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So what's he going to do? How can the frog come back?

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I know. How about hiding?

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Now all of a sudden the fr jumps out of the Fox's mouth.

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Fine. And he lands on the grass

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and he says to the fox,

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Why don't you go And look for some food?

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I eaten you. Please don't eat me. I can go

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Daddy, have you got any money? Yes.

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How much I dollars with eggs. Oh, can I have it please?

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Okay, thank you.

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Then he goes to the shop. Rory's the shopkeeper. Hello,

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Rory, could I buy some fox food please?

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You wanna hold him? Can I buy

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Some fox food Please?

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Have you got any in your shop? Mm yeah.

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Rice. Thank you

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Very much.

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I think the fox. Do you think the fox is gonna like rice?

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Then? Maybe he won't eat the frogs anymore if

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he's got lots of rice.

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All up. Now

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What's he going do now?

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He's full.

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Do? Looks like it.

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Yeah. What's that box going to do?

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Eat With it? No, he is already eaten.

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What can he do now? His belly's full. He can

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Sleep. Mm.

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Who's gonna put him to bed? Let my hand have a go.

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Right? Find a nice patch of grass for him.

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Look and then we can cover him up. Make him nice and warm.

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What do you think? Do you wanna

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cover foxy up to her to sleep?

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I do. And then you do it, let's say goodnight Fox.

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Goodnight. Oh,

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Cover him up.

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That's it. He needs a good rest.

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Back to the pond.
 

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Hello, welcome back to session two.

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Today you are going to start using our resources.

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So get ready for creative, fun storytelling

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and just wait to be astounded

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by the difference you'll see in your children.

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to develop quality interactions with children.

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In early years Tale's Toolkit has quality interactions at

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the core of everything we develop.

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Let the child lead tune in.

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Careful use of language, careful use of questioning.

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By the end of today's training, I want you to understand how

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to tell a simple story and how tell toolkit develop skills.

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Part one, how to tell a simple story.

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Today we're going to be showing you the first of the Tales,

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toolkit, resources, and there's lots more to come,

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but using our Tales toolkit, big kit is the first step

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to set children up as creative storytellers.

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The big kit comes with four large bags with Velcro seals,

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so they're safe for even the youngest children to use.

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that you can hang the whole lot up in the cupboard

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so your special bits don't go walkabout.

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The four Velcro bags are labeled with the symbols.

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Character setting problem Solution.

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Children are encouraged to pull different items from the

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bags and together you create stories

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Voices and sounds. Tales talk.

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by children working at different levels.

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This repetition of words, symbols,

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and story strengthen those neural pathways in the brain

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for the children to hang stories on. So what

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Tales Toolkit offers is a framework

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for supporting children's first steps in making up stories,

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imaginative play, putting ideas together and into sequences.

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helpful to children.

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This is a powerful tool giving the children freedom

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to create stories with familiar items.

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Introduce the bags to the children.

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So today we are not gonna tell a story using a book.

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What we gonna use? Storytelling.

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We are gonna do storytelling with their bags,

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with our tells toolkit.

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Bags, don't worry too much about the children.

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Remembering the names of the bags.

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Together?

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Character setting,

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problem solution.

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Character. Is this our character bag? Yeah, yeah.

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Choose one of the children

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to pull a character from the bag

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and at the start you take control of the props,

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especially in larger groups as its key.

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move dance, modeling this before the children have a go.

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Shall we look in the setting bag to see

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where our character is going today? Adam

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Said it's a very sparkly place.

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Where could it be? Uh,

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It could be in the garden.

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This one is on GL. Shop

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The glitter shop And model your thinking.

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Ooh, the material is green.

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I'm trying to think of a place that's green.

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tricky, then talk about what the character will do here.

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Soar and a teddy bear went to the kit shop

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and what do you think she did at the kit shop?

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The setting fabric is spread out in the center

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of the group and you can use the fabric like a parachute

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to bounce the character or make waves for the sea.

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And the characters having a great time

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enjoying themselves when, oh no a problem.

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Dun dun dun. A problem.

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the prop is a problem.

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Hmm. I'm trying to think why this is a problem

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and have lots of fun acting it out together.

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how to solve the problem.

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How can we help and always have a go at solving the problem

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together before using the solution bag.

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and nothing seems to work, let's look in the solution bag

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to see if there's anything to help.

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Hmm, I wonder how this will help.

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How will it help to solve the problem?

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And when you come to the end of the story

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and the problem is solved, finish

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with they lived happily ever after.

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You are already to tell a tales,

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talk it story with your children.

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Now let us think about the kind

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of things we can put inside the bags.

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Some teachers only add one item

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to each bag when they first tell stories

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so they know exactly what is coming out.

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Other teachers add three

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or four items to each bag

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so the children can put their hands in

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and feel different textures before pulling a prop out.

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you can tell lots of stories without having

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to change the resources inside.

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To begin, we recommend you use obvious props,

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things you can easily tell a story

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with without stretching your imagination.

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As the children become used to the structure, add items

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that will extend their thinking.

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So why is a baby a problem or a fairy?

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Hello, this is Howie Says hello, it's Howie Shakes hands.

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Child-led, and fun.

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The first principle is Safe space.

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Whatever the child gives, let them explore their ideas.

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No idea or suggestion is wrong.

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What do you think Sarah?

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Let your children engage

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This is okay. It's really important.

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The key elements here are step back and add thinking.

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Leon have Lady Bird's got big or small voices?

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Are you ready? Could you help her to join in

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to say shoe to the cow?

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Allow, adapt, add, allow the children

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to take the lead in their stories, adapt the resources

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to fit their interests.

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Topics you're covering and challenge ideas

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with the children leading to improvements in language,

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that all children at different levels can join in.

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and understanding can tell a basic story

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The snow. Okay. Problem. Problem.

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and interests didn you really up the levels of engagement

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children's language development.

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this was the story that he told

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once upon a time their crocodile in a sparkly house.

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The bear share glasses

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they will increasingly come up with imaginative, unusual,

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Testing and adapting ideas which features in the

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characteristics of effective learning also helps

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with low levels of language.

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When it comes to songs, be creative.

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If you don't feel comfortable singing it, then just say it.

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And you can make this more interesting

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by using body percussion to tap

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or clap along, finding rhythm in your words.

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And repeat lines so children can join in. There's

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Always a bump bump, there's always a bump bump.

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Using these three principles,

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the children's stories will become increasingly creative.

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Tells toolkit to develop social skills.

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Let's start with safe space stories.

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Bring emotions to life

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and help children to understand their own

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feelings and those of others.

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The first stage of developing empathy in young children is

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to help them recognize emotions.

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Tell's Toolkit is a safe context in which to allow

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and explore feelings.

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And when using tell's toolkit, take every opportunity

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to draw attention to the feelings in the stories.

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Talk about the character's feelings.

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The fox seemed very angry. Use facial expressions.

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Say the feeling word and act out the feeling with props.

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All of these combined will help children

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to develop a feeling vocabulary.

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And over time you'll start to see more emotions

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explored in the children's stories and child led.

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When children have told a story from the character's

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perspective, try swapping the character

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and the problem round the child still takes a lead in the

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storytelling, but this encourages them

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to tell the story from another angle

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and it can lead to very interesting discussions.

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So what would happen if the big bad wolf is the character

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and Red Riding Hood is the problem?

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Was the wolf really bad or was he just hungry?

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It certainly stimulates thinking

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and fun when you are acting silly and having fun

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and really showing your sense of humor.

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Often the children are more relaxed, engaged,

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and you'll see them at their most confident.

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Teachers have commented on the difference made

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to children's confidence through using Tell's toolkit.

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And this is often because they really wanna join in

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and have their ideas taken on.

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In, um, my group, I've got quite few children

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who are very shy, particularly girls.

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Um, and this gave them the confidence to speak more, um,

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but also to express.

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I found after a little while with Charles Toolkit,

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they were expressing their ideas and their feelings

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and their thoughts, uh, a lot more as well.

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Not just their stories and their imagination.

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Allowing every scenario

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and all feelings means children can explore serious issues

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and real life problems in safe and fun ways.

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Using Tell's Toolkit, children start

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to look at a story from another's perspective

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and you'll see less violence

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and more pro-social elements in your children's stories.

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Before you start using Tell's toolkit, get together

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as a group and think about

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how you are gonna deal with violence.

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Different schools have different views on this,

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so it's best you make the decision

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and it's very easy to appear disapproving.

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But think carefully.

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We find it quite a loaded thing to deal with

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because we have a lot of associations around violence.

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We know it makes people feel sad. We know it hurts people.

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We know that the damage it can inflict

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preschoolers kind of don't.

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Um, and so it's, it's a useful part

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of their everyday repertoire.

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Now our job, I think is to, um, show them

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that our alternatives and that's, that's great.

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So we, we accept what they're doing

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and say, alright, so clearly you know, you,

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you weren't happy with that situation.

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Or you know, your friend didn't want you to do that.

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That's why they fished you away. What else could we do?

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How else could we tell them

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that we're not happy with what's happening?

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So we can use it, I think and accept it

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and don't necessarily, we don't need to run in and judge,

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but we can accept it

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and then use it as a basis

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to explore different alternatives.

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Children are like sponges

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and you'll be surprised at

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how much they pick up from the

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things that happen around them.

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There's lots they'll hear from background

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TV and discussions.

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Story and role play are one of the ways

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that children make sense of the world they live in.

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When your children are confident using Tell's Toolkit

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and know their ideas are valued, you may want

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to discuss the impact of their suggestions.

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One class told a story in which they solved the problem

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of a biting bear by killing it.

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Another child said, but his mom will be really sad.

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And this led to a discussion

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where we talked about alternative solutions

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we might try in the future.

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This wouldn't have been anywhere near

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as powerful if first the children hadn't

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experienced killing the bear.

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Think about what you will do if the solution each

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time is kill him.

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So you're all set up ready to tell, tell, talk it stories.

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Remember those three key principles.

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Create a safe space where suggestions are valued.

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Let the child lead and have lots of fun.

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We recommend over the next month.

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You use Tell's Toolkit Big bags at least once a week

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with all the children

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so they become familiar with the structure.

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This should fit easily into your story

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time or group sessions.

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Using Intel's toolkit,

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you'll see improvements in the children's language,

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creativity, and social skills.

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The storytelling you provide now is setting your children up

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to be curious, creative adults

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with good communication skills and the best bit

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because it's led by the children,

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there's virtually no planning.

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You just pick up the bags and go,

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and who knows where your stories will lead.