Telling Stories through songs

Milica Vukadin B.Ed.

Galery Teachers, UK

Telling Stories through Songs:

Exploiting Lyrics for Storytelling in the Classroom

INDEX

05

01

TPR & dramatization

Song selection checklist

06

02

Activities to engage & recycle

3 ways: from songs to stories

07

03

Dramatization & songs 101

Nursery rhyme books

08

04

References & materials

Oral story

Song selection checklist

connected to the language and lesson content

compatible with learners’ level of language proficiency

attractive in melody and rhythm

easily adaptable to actions and/or dramatization

repetitive in text, rhythm, and melody

engaging and motivating

+INFO

3 simple ways to create a story from a song

Nursery rhyme books & problematic situations

Oral story/quest/beinga detective

TPR and dramatization

Activity 1

Nurseryrhyme books & problematic situations

+IDEA

London Bridge is Falling Down

vocabulary

storytelling

project

Activity 2

Oral story/quest/being a detective

+IDEA 1

Oral story/problematic situation

+IDEA 2

vocabulary& storytelling

the game

edibles

Activity 3

TPR and dramatization

TPR and dramatization

sing, play +dramatize

vocabulary

orchestra

Activities to engage and recycle

Rhytmic

Listen and...

Make a recyclable orchestra

Personalize

Tempo

Add their names to the song

Slow down/speed up

Volume

Think

Spontaneous expression and hypothesis

Use your voice and objects; Read my lips

Dramatization:How can we dramatize and have interactive storytelling through songs?

• Introduce the song

• Review old vocabulary

• Pre-teach new vocabulary

• Teach the song line by line

• Steps for long songs:

Teach the refrain line by line. Teach the tune of the verse using “la la la” instead of the lyrics. Teach the verses one by one, always singing the refrain after each one.

• Point out words that rhyme at the end of each line and repeat them.

Steps for teaching songs to YLs (Shin and Crandall 2014)

References

for further study

Experiences in movement and music: Birth to age eight

Get Up and Sing! Get Up and Move!

TEYL

Taking it one step further

Three more references

Thank you for

listening!