The Smartest Giant in Town Story slider craft. Practise animal and clothes vocabulary. Practise sequencing and ordinal numbers. Use to tell or retell the story.

Story slider craft for The Smartest Giant in Town

Get crafty and enjoy fun interactive story retelling with The Smartest Giant in Town.

♦ A dynamic and effective way to practise story language and use in story retelling.

♦ Choose from a range of templates to focus on speaking, listening, sequencing and even reading skills.

♦ Option to use as a print, colour and retell craft OR to build a whole lesson around contructing the craft then playing with it.

♦ Stretch your older learners with templates that include the story song.

♦ Follow the tips and suggestions for fun ways to incorporate full sentences and structures in an interactive and dynamic way.

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What will my ESL young learners learn?

These clothes sorting sheets will give your learners a fun, visual way to consolidate the clothes and animal vocabulary in the story.

Apart from the vocabulary, you can focus on useful story phrases and language – See below.

The learning doesn’t just stop after they make the craft. Follow the activity suggestions for fun and engaging ways to play with it afterwards.

Don’t forget the valuable classroom language you’ll be helping them learn. See a summary below:

Clothes vocabulary

scarf, shirt, belt, tie, shoe, sock

Story animals and characters

fox, goat, giraffe, mouse, dog, giant

Structures

‘for’ + noun phrase

e.g. Your tie is a scarf for a cold giraffe.

superlatives

e.g. You’re the kindest giant in town

Game and activity language

Where’s the…? It’s here. It’s there. Is it…? Yes, it is. No, it isn’t. What is it? It’s a.. It’s…

What’s first? What comes next? What’s after/before the…?

Can you find the…? I can see a… Where does this go? Here. There.

Can I have..? Here you are. Thank you. You’re welcome. Colours, crayons, pens, pencils, glue, scissors. I’m finished.

What do teachers say about the resources?

Wow! I used this resource for one of my labs and it has been explosive. Children were super excited and of course, I was as well! Nothing to complain about! Great work!

I have recently started to use storytelling in my classes and ESL labs. Fiona’s resources are a real treasure. Lots of useful tips and ready-to-use material to bring the story to life and help kids use the language. Excellent, couldn’t ask for more.

The resources were great and saved me so much time, the teaching tips gave me ideas. We had a lot of fun with it : the kids loved the activities, learnt the animals and movements and understood the story. And I feel like there is so much more I could have done. Thank you !

I found this resources few weeks ago and now I’m always have a look first on this web. The range of activities are awesome!

I love the resources and the kids seemed to enjoy too. I had a hard time today with a mixed-age group (from 6 to 14!), but the abundance of differentiated activities Fiona offers made it much easier for me to make the time spent together meaningful.

Most importantly, my students really enjoyed the process of making their own mini book. It also served as an assessment, as I was able to see clearly which students were having issues with reading and matching – but it didn’t feel like an exam or test for the students at all. I only wish I’d found this at the beginning of the academic year.

Frequently asked questions

Can't I just make these resources myself for nothing?

Yes, of course! Maybe you have the time and enjoy creating things, but it has to be said that being a young learner teacher can involve a HUGE amount of extra work making materials. Give yourself a break!

How do I know these materials will work?

All my materials have been tried and tested in the classroom. As well as having almost 20 years of teaching experience, I am also a qualified trainer for the Trinity TYLEC (Teaching Young Learners Extension Certificate), so you can rely on the quality.

I'm teaching mixed aged groups. Will these materials work?

Yes! They work great for mixed aged groups and different abilities because they come with different templates AND different suggestions with how to use the resource. No time wasted on adapting different worksheets!

I need a ready to go lesson plan. Can I use this?

The provided activity suggestions for pre, during and after the craft give you all the steps you need to create a fun and engaging lesson for your young learners.

Wouldn't it be easier to just do a worksheet?

You can certainly find some free worksheets out there, but I can guarantee your young learners will be much more excited to create this. Engaged and motivated children make for a happy lesson (and teacher!)

Once you’ve had a chance to use your materials, don’t forget to come back to leave a review. As a thank you, you’ll receive a 20% discount on any other resource : )

The Smartest Giant in Town – Story slider craft