Anticipation Activity
SOUND STORIES
Level: kids 7-9
Reading/speaking activity
Objectives: to stimulate kid’s curiosity through sounds.
Learning strategy: Analyze sounds and predict a sequence of events. Produce vocabulary related to the topic.
It can be used as a warming, before a reading activity. In order to get kids to get interested on a certain topic. i.e. if speaking about nature, introduce nature sounds; if speaking about people, use different voices or situations.
The students try to predict the topic of the text. Based on the different sounds, they put them together to create a story. Then read the actual story. Compare both and decide which they like most.
Procedure:
-Tell kids to pay attention, because they are about to hear a series of sounds
-Play the recording once
- Ask them to guess the main (very general) topic
- Play the recording again (stop after every different sound)
- Analyze each sound by separate. Ask them questions about them.
- Play the whole recording one more time.
- Tell students to try and put the sounds together to form a short sequence: Brainstorm. The teacher writes the different options on the board. They choose the ones they like most to form the story. Tell students to write down their version of the story.
- Read the actual text
- Compare the two stories. Students vote for the one they liked most.
- As a follow up, they can illustrate the version they liked better.
Cristina & Maya
Cristina & Maya
