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Putting a story in order
Retelling a story from its pictures: what happened first, next and last. Little Roos has 3 free games, tours and things to make that practise it, for ages 4-7.
Where it fits
In the Early Years Learning Framework V2.0 (birth to five) and the Australian Curriculum v9 (Foundation to Year 2), with the official wording:
- AC9EFLE03 (Australian Curriculum v9: English, Foundation): recognise different types of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings.
- AC9EFLE05 (Australian Curriculum v9: English, Foundation): retell and adapt familiar literary texts through play, performance, images or writing.
- AC9EFLY05 (Australian Curriculum v9: English, Foundation): use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently.
Games that practise it
- Frog's Big Change: Life cycles: put the stages in order, from egg to frog and egg to butterfly. Ages 4-7.
- Flying Fox's Story Order: Putting a story's pictures in order: first, next and last. Ages 4-7.
- Make a Story: Something to make.
Away from the screen
About two minutes each, with things most homes have.
Watch something grow (from Frog's Big Change)
- Look for tadpoles in a pond or a creek (look, don't take them), or for a caterpillar on a leaf in the garden.
- Go back each week and see what's changed. Draw what you see.
- Talk about what comes next: what will the tadpole grow first? What will the caterpillar turn into?
Photo stories (from Flying Fox's Story Order)
- Take three photos of something you do together: making toast, planting a seed, getting ready for bed.
- Mix them up and ask: what happened first? Then next? What happened last?
- Tell the story together, using "first", "then" and "at the end".
Things to ask while they play
- What does a tadpole grow first, its back legs or its front legs?
- Where does a butterfly lay her eggs?
- What happened first in the story?
- What happened just before the end?
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