Pre-Story Activities

• Listen & Draw
• Mewarnai – students have a sheet of pics related to story about to be covered and teacher gives instructions like mewarnai dua topi merah (colour 2 hats red)
• Raja Monyet -Student A leaves the room/closes their eyes. Teacher appoints a student and they become monyet/buaya/kancil (whatever target structure you are targeting). Student A is then invited to approach 3 different students seated in the circle guessing which one is the buya, moonyet etc. Student A asks 3 students, “Siapa nama?” (Whats your name?) one by one. If they are not buaya/kancil/pohon they answer with “Nama saya and their name (My name is …..) If they ask the buaya/monyet/kancil’ they will answer with, “Nama saya kancil” or Nama saya buaya etc.
• Backwards Charades- One student stands out the front. The class does a gesture for the image/word on the screen behind the student standing who has to say the Indonesian for it.
• PQA using soft teddies.
• Picadilly Circus (credit Play is the Way) students standing in a circle. One has a soft ball or teddy and stands in the  middle. Student randomly chooses a student standing in the circle and approaches them to ask a question (whats your name?) or half of a target structure (don’t). As they ask the chosen student, the hand over the ball and the student replies appropriately (my name is) or (get too close). The first student then steps back into the circle replacing  the other student, who is off now repeating the question/phrase to another student, and sits down. Game continues until everyone is seated. This game can be timed with older students to encourage automaticitiy and also another object can be introduced and students can not sit down until they have held both objects!
• Hatchi Patchi/Detective – one student leaves the room and a leader is chosen. This leader leads the actions which the rest must follow without giving away who the leader is. The actions would be gestures that the students know. See here for extension ideas.

Post Story Activities

• Listen & Draw
• Unjumble sentence strips from the class story.
• Catharina’s Duplo activity – teacher reads the story  sentence by sentence while students are seated in a circle and in the middle of the circle is a pile of duplo. If the sentence that the teacher reads out is correct, students can take a piece of duplo. If the sentence is incorrect, students can not take any duplo. This is an excellent listening activity and fun too. Students can play with their duplo while listening!
• Sequence pictures from a story
• Pick a sentence and illustrate
• Match pictures and sentences – teacher led
• Feltboard retelling
• Echo reading – Teacher reads first in TL and students echo the translation.
• All the worlds a Stage – in partners, students reenact the story as the teacher retells it.
• Flyswatter Game – Keith Toda
• Picture or statue – K.C. Kless
• Para! – Mrs Spanish & Keith Toda
• Take a story – Christine McCormick on the iFLT/NTPRS/CI Teaching Facebook Page
  -You illustrate a story. As you tell, students put pictures in order. OR they just put pics in order and retell story.
•  Musical Story Review –  Turn on your favorite TL song. Students walk around the room. Then, when you stop the music, they listen for a sentence in the TL from the story that they then act out. For example, (stop music) “Elsa runs quickly to Bunnings” or “Georgia’s jacket is too small” MrsSpanish
• Parallel story Powerpoint or video (see Youtube)
• Create a mini-booklet on the photocopier with a sentence from the story on each page. Students illustrate one page at a time while the teacher or a student reads the text out. Students can then take the booklet home to read to parents, siblings and pets!
• Create a class book – Organise the story so that one sentence is on one page. Print the pages on A3 and distribute randomly to students – if more students than pages, hand out duplicate copies. When pictures are completed, reduce them on the photocopier to A4 (you’ll be amazed at how much this improves the illustrations) and then bind. Optional – laminate each page.
  Credit Annie Beach & Amy Vanderdeen for this strategy.
• Drawing dictation– Keith Toda
• Draw, Listen, Check – Spanish Mama

• Silent True/False Reading (shared by Alina Filipescu)
  In pairs, students read silently for X minutes, then each draw 2 pics about the text (1 true, 1 FALSE). Students swap papers, and partner points to the True pic. Pairs now trade papers with another pair, and determine the new True pics with partner.
• Whole Class Acting – Sarah Breckley has an activity where they have a story and every kid in the class gets a role- main characters, supporting characters, tree, beach, boat, map, etc. Then she reads the story and they pop in and out to act.
• Strip Mini Books – Spanish Playground

• Crush the Cockroach – Martina Bex

• 4 corner emotion – this could be done with student volunteers to start with and/or the whole class with each student moving through the different emotions (happy, sad, angry, scared) with a different line from the story. Childs play in action