Create a story box to support the children retelling the Raa Raa story. Using a shoe box, decorate and fill it with items related to the story such as jungle leaves, twigs, jungle animals and a blue sky. The story box can create the backdrop for the children’s stories.

Encourage the children to carry out a performance to the class or take the performance home to show to parents, siblings and other family members.

and fill it with items related to the story such as jungle leaves, twigs, jungle animals and a blue sky. The story box can create the backdrop for the children’s stories.

Raa Raa and his jungle friends enjoy spending time together playing

games and heading off on adventures. Create some engaging finger

puppets for your setting to allow the children to recreate

Raa Raa’s adventures and to make up their very own stories.

Raa Raa and

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games and heading off on adventures. Create some engaging finger

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Raa Raa’s adventures and to make up their very own stories.

Pictures of jungle animals (lions, monkeys, elephants, giraffes, crocodiles and zebras) from magazines, newspapers or the internet

Coloured card Sticky tape/glue Safety scissors

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Create a story box to support the children retelling the Raa Raa story. Using a shoe box, decorate

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Raa Raa and his friends are always heading off on great adventures,

inspired by a new noise, mystery or puzzle they have found in the jungle.

They have lots of stories to tell and love sharing them with the children

who like to watch their adventures unfold.

Why Retelling?Encouraging children to retell a story they have heard or tell others about an experience they have had is a great way of developing their communication skills and gives them confidence when working in a group environment. Allow children as much opportunity as possible to share their thoughts and stories with their friends and adults around them.

For EYFS early learning goals covered by this sheet see your Practitioners Guide. For curriculum links for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales go to www.raaraathenoisylion.com

For EYFS early learning goals covered by this sheet see your Practitioners Guide.

RETELLING! What to do: Share some pictures of jungle animals

with the children. You could also share with them the pictures of Raa Raa and his friends included in the practitioner’s guide.

Ask the children to choose animal pictures to represent Raa Raa and his friends and then support them with cutting out the pictures.

Create finger tubes using the coloured card to fit around the fingers of the children. Secure the tubes with sticky tape.

Attach each animal picture to a separate card finger tube using glue or sticky tape.

Alternatively create your own animal puppet faces using paper, colouring pencils/pens and then attach these to the card tubes.

Once ready allow the children to use their finger puppets to act out their own Raa Raa adventures, telling the story as they go along or recreate the episode Ooo Ooo’s Jungle Drums which appears on the DVDs within this pack.

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Raa Raa and his friends are always

inspired by a new noise, mystery or puzzle they have found in the jungle.

They have lots of stories to tell and love

Encouraging children to retell a story they have heard or tell others about an experience they have had is a great way of developing their communication skills and gives them confidence when working in a group environment. Allow children as much opportunity as possible to share

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Sit the children in a circle.

Choose a well-known story that you can tell the children from memory, it may be a story you regularly read to the children. Alternatively, make up a simple story to share with the children.

Tell the story to the children using a selection of props along the way to animate the story and stimulate their imaginations.

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Story Time Raa Raa’s friend Topsy loves reading books and discovering new stories.

Retelling a well known story is a great way of engaging children’s

memory skills and develops their use of descriptive

words and phrases. Try this fun activity using well

know stories as a stimulus.

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When telling the story, children have to look out for the props and act out that part of the story, e.g. pretend to eat porridge, put a wolf mask on when he appears etc. Have a box of additional “props” that aren’t in the story. What would happen if we added one of these props to the story we just heard, so, if the big bad wolf had to wear a baseball cap or Cinderella had a racing car etc? Can they retell the story adding in one or two new props?

Try creating your own stories by collecting together a selection of items and then working with the children to think of how they could all come together in a story. Use a narrative structure to help the children with their retelling by asking who, where, when and what happened?

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Once you have told the story, go back to the items/props and encourage the children to remind you what role they had in the story. Prompt them with questions such as: Who ate out of this huge bowl? Who wore this glass slipper? What has this pumpkin got to do with the story?

The aim of the activity is to get the children thinking about the story they have just heard and remembering the key points in relation to a visual stimulus.

See if the children can retell you the story using the props along the way.

A selection of items or props related to a well known story – these could be made up from a range of toys, everyday items, clothing or food.

Example stories to do: Story Props

wolf, red cape, basket, grandma glasses

porridge, different sized bowls, bears, wooden spoons

glass slipper, clock, pumpkin, prince, party dress

Little Red Riding Hood

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Cinderella

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Raa Raa’s friend Topsy loves reading books and discovering new stories.

Retelling a well known story is a great way of engaging children’s

Allow the children in your setting to spend some time outside your classroom in a local park, at the beach or in a play area on a supervised trip.Encourage the children to explore their environment and have fun investigating their surroundings with their friends.They could be encouraged to take one item back to the setting, e.g. a twig from the park, a pebble from the beach, a bus ticket – this will help them to retell their story.Once back in your setting, create a circle time activity where the children have the opportunity to tell you and their friends what they did while exploring outside; encourage them to describe what they saw, heard, smelt and felt while they were exploring. Use a narrative structure to help the children with their retelling by asking who was there, where did you go, when did you go and what happened? This activity allows the children to retell their adventures and develop their skills in communicating events, sights, sounds and feelings.

Active Adventures Crocky the crocodile is always ready to explore his jungle home. Give the children in your setting

the opportunity to get exploring and have an adventure of their own and then tell their

classmates all about it.

his jungle home. Give the children in your setting

SEEK AND

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Ask the children to bring in photos or objects from home and encourage them to retell stories linked to these items to their friends.

For more fun things to do with Raa Raa and his friends visit:

www.raaraathenoisylion.com

Play out different story ideas, e.g. have chairs lined up like a bus – they are travelling to the jungle, think what might happen next. Have additional ideas and props to add to the story - “oh no a flat tyre...” Encourage the children to retell their story game - they could tell someone at home about their adventures.

story we just heard, so, if the big bad wolf had to wear a baseball cap or Cinderella had a racing car etc? Can they retell the story adding in one or two new props?

Try creating your own stories by collecting together a selection

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This activity allows the children to retell their adventures and develop their skills in communicating events, sights, sounds and feelings.

Play out different story ideas, e.g. have chairs lined up like a bus – they are travelling to the jungle, think what might happen next. Have additional ideas and props to add to the story - “oh no a flat tyre...” Encourage the children to retell their story game - they could tell someone at home about their adventures.

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