Fairytale Fun with Finger Puppets

Promoting oral communication is paramount in the early stages of learning a new language and what better way to promote this than with the retelling of a fairytale. While the content of fairytales may vary in minor ways, the key ideas are similar. These foundation speakers are able to role play the parts of Red Riding Hood, Grandma, the wolf and woodcutter. The dialogue went as follows: Teacher: Where did Red Riding Hood go? Child: Grandma house. Teacher: Why did she go to grandma's house? Child: Grandma sick. Teacher: What did Red Riding Hood take to grandma? Child: A basket with cookies and cheese. Teacher: What did she pick in the forest for grandma? Child: Yellow flowers. Teacher: Were they daffodils? Child: Yes Then role play demonstrated what the children knew about what took place in grandma's house. The children were able to recite the lines from the story that related to the wolf's eyes, ears and teeth. They had much pleasure in talking about the outcome for the wolf. Their wolf had a very sore head at the end of the story. Naturally Red Riding and grandma lived happily ever after. The children were asked to sequence the story before their role-play.

Finger puppets bring the characters to life: