36
STORY SACKS
Objectives
•
To encourage families to tell stories together.
•
To motivate and inspire families to read with their children.
Setting, materials and preparation
•
Setting: School library, classrooms,
•
Materials: Cloth bags, paints and markers that may be used on cloth, pieces of
old clothing or other materials that can be used to decorate the story sacks, a
variety of books, games, cards, board games, digital content, etc., as described
below.
Step-by-Step Description
•
Staff and volunteers collaborate to make story sacks
•
These should be attractively decorated sacks (made of sturdy material), filled
with story inspiring objects, sets of storytelling cards, stories, puppets,
relevant board games, etc., as well as instructions for families and suggestions
for playing with the material and creating stories. Choose popular texts.
•
The sacks are lent out to families, so they can use them at home for
storytelling, reading, and creative activities and also used in the classrooms for
children to explore alongside the book.
•
At school, children are encouraged to tell their story sack stories and a book is
created containing all the stories.
Sources
Osborne, S., Strong, J. & Torsi, S. (2008).
Reading Connects Family Involvement Toolkit
.
London: National Literacy Trust.
MANY MORE ACTIONS &
ACTIVITIES AT:
org/actions_new.html
