Travelling Tales - What the Ladybird Heard from Hope Education KIT
Travelling Tales - What the Ladybird Heard from Hope Education KIT
Product code: HE1823198
Product Description
Looking for a one-stop shop of storytelling resources? The Travelling Tales series from Hope Education: What the Ladybird Heard is a great bank of cross-curricular resources that can be used to plan a series of lessons centered around a quality text. What more could you want?
What the Ladybird Heard comes from the masterful penmanship of Julia Donaldson and tells the tale of a small ladybird who overhears the cunning plan of robbers Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len. The ladybird and all her farmyard friends get to work to foil the robbers' plans to steal a prize cow, teaching pupils the importance of listening and the significance of even the smallest and seemingly insignificant individual.
This Travelling Tales story sack includes finger puppets of the animals found on the farm and a printed story mat to help pupils re-tell the story in a memorable way. Other cross-curricular resources to help engage reluctant readers in their reading include a board game and a non-fiction book.
- Find inspiration and plan a series of effective storytelling lessons using the Teacher Guide included in every Travelling Tales sack.
- Help your pupils learn important storytelling skills and make links between what they are reading and other activities and subjects using the cross-curricular resources included.
- Excite your pupils about reading with the fantastically funny story of What the Ladybird Heard.
What's in the Travelling Tales sack?
1 x copy of What the Ladybird Heard
1 x set of animal finger puppets**
1 x printed mat of a farm**
1 x non-fiction book**
1 x Listening Lotto game**
1 x Teacher Guide**
Contents may vary from description due to availability.
**Products are not affiliated with, or approved by, Julia Donaldson or Pan MacMillan.
*Please note CD is no longer available*
- Quality texts from well-known authors, great for sharing with children; the patterned language promotes choral reading and retelling, naturally encouraging audience participation!
- Each bag provides a window into a new world where the children can learn new ideas and information through engaging and exciting stories.
- Good quality materials support the texts, allowing children to create their own play with the characters, further developing vocabulary and language.
- Each bag contains a related non-fiction text, developing the idea of the story with further information.
- The games link to the text and provide the opportunity to work collaboratively and take turns, while extending and developing the story.
- Provide opportunities for children to express views about events or characters in a story and to answer questions about what happened.
- Provide a wide range of media and materials to share thoughts, ideas, and feelings.
- After listening to stories, children can express views about events or characters in the story and answer questions about why things happened.
- Expose children to a wide range of reading material with lots of opportunities to engage with books that fire their imagination and interest.
- Pupils are given the opportunity to explain their understanding of books whilst developing comprehension skills as well as increasing vocabulary.
- Resources allow children to adopt, create, and sustain the roles of characters in the stories.
- Opportunities for improvisation as well as script drama are provided.
- Many opportunities for discussion of stories and books with the teacher including non-fiction texts.
Further Information
- Age Range
- 3-7 Years
- Age Recommended from
- 3 Years
- Age Recommended to
- 7 Years
- Brand
- Travelling Tales
- EYFS Aim
- Communication and Language; Literacy
- Genre
- Popular Stories
- Key Stage
- EYFSKey Stage 1
- Primary Learning Outcome
- Reading Comprehension; Spoken Language KS1
- Product Type
- Story Sacks
Looking for a one-stop shop of storytelling resources? The Travelling Tales series from Hope Education: What the Ladybird Heard is a great bank of cross-curricular resources that can be used to plan a series of lessons centered around a quality text. What more could you want?
What the Ladybird Heard comes from the masterful penmanship of Julia Donaldson and tells the tale of a small ladybird who overhears the cunning plan of robbers Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len. The ladybird and all her farmyard friends get to work to foil the robbers' plans to steal a prize cow, teaching pupils the importance of listening and the significance of even the smallest and seemingly insignificant individual.
This Travelling Tales story sack includes finger puppets of the animals found on the farm and a printed story mat to help pupils re-tell the story in a memorable way. Other cross-curricular resources to help engage reluctant readers in their reading include a board game and a non-fiction book.
- Find inspiration and plan a series of effective storytelling lessons using the Teacher Guide included in every Travelling Tales sack.
- Help your pupils learn important storytelling skills and make links between what they are reading and other activities and subjects using the cross-curricular resources included.
- Excite your pupils about reading with the fantastically funny story of What the Ladybird Heard.
What's in the Travelling Tales sack?
1 x copy of What the Ladybird Heard
1 x set of animal finger puppets**
1 x printed mat of a farm**
1 x non-fiction book**
1 x Listening Lotto game**
1 x Teacher Guide**
Contents may vary from description due to availability.
**Products are not affiliated with, or approved by, Julia Donaldson or Pan MacMillan.
*Please note CD is no longer available*
- Quality texts from well-known authors, great for sharing with children; the patterned language promotes choral reading and retelling, naturally encouraging audience participation!
- Each bag provides a window into a new world where the children can learn new ideas and information through engaging and exciting stories.
- Good quality materials support the texts, allowing children to create their own play with the characters, further developing vocabulary and language.
- Each bag contains a related non-fiction text, developing the idea of the story with further information.
- The games link to the text and provide the opportunity to work collaboratively and take turns, while extending and developing the story.
- Provide opportunities for children to express views about events or characters in a story and to answer questions about what happened.
- Provide a wide range of media and materials to share thoughts, ideas, and feelings.
- After listening to stories, children can express views about events or characters in the story and answer questions about why things happened.
- Expose children to a wide range of reading material with lots of opportunities to engage with books that fire their imagination and interest.
- Pupils are given the opportunity to explain their understanding of books whilst developing comprehension skills as well as increasing vocabulary.
- Resources allow children to adopt, create, and sustain the roles of characters in the stories.
- Opportunities for improvisation as well as script drama are provided.
- Many opportunities for discussion of stories and books with the teacher including non-fiction texts.
Further Information
- Age Range
- 3-7 Years
- Age Recommended from
- 3 Years
- Age Recommended to
- 7 Years
- Brand
- Travelling Tales
- EYFS Aim
- Communication and Language; Literacy
- Genre
- Popular Stories
- Key Stage
- EYFSKey Stage 1
- Primary Learning Outcome
- Reading Comprehension; Spoken Language KS1
- Product Type
- Story Sacks
