WHAT'S IN THE BOX??
AUTHOR: BILL GILMAN
ILLUSTRATED BY SUSSIE
JENKIN- PEARCE
4 years old
- Pre- telling: During this activity, the teacher have
to teach the vocabulary shown in the book in order to make pupils understand the story. These are the words that appears on the book: mouse,
cheese, cat and dog. For them, the teacher will use an animal mask and the pupils will have to say and repeat the animal's name which appears.
After that, the teacher will share out the
masks to some pupils and they have try on them. Afterwards, teacher says an animal and the student who wears that animal mask has to stand
up.
Materials: Animal masks (mouse, cat and
dog).
- Telling: During the story, the teacher has to say a question and children will repeat it: "what’s in the box?". And then, answer with teacher's help. Another interesting idea is that the teacher says a wrong answer on purpose and then, the children will realise he/she is wrong and will answer answer the correct one.
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Post-telling: In this activity we want to
introduce the structure of the question: "what’s in the box?". Because this book
it’s composed of questions and answers. The teacher will take a box and pupils
will introduce some objects in the box. Pupils have to introduce the objects
that they choose, for example: crayons, rubbers, pencil case… and the teacher
say all the time the same question "What's in the box?" So that, pupils will learn the
structure and the meaning of the question.
Materials: A box (blue preferably, like in the book)
and a course material (pencils, scissors, glue, felt-tip pen…).
