Stories for Kids

List of Stories for Kids
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Activities :

• Skeleton Story
  "Here’s a way to make the language of a story memorable by using physical activity.
  All you have to do is find a story that lends itself to being mimed. Get the students to stand up and then slowly read the story acting it out at the same time and encouraging the class to join in. Repeat the story but this time at a faster pace, again with actions...
  This is a poetic story that we use with younger elementary level students...
  We got this idea from Nick Bilbrough and his excellent book ‘Memory Activities for Language Learning’ published by Cambridge University Press."
  (thehenrybrothers.wordpress.com)

  

• How to Write a Fairy Tale (ehow.com)

• Your Own Fairy Tale - interactive
  "Fill in the blanks in the form ..., and see your own fairytale..."
  (quest4camelot.com)

• Create a fairytale giant
  "Invent a fairytale giant, draw a picture of your giant and write a description using this activity sheet."
  (education.scholastic.co.uk)

  

• Funny Library - Mini Story Books - with activities
  + Mini Topics : ex. Daily routines
  + Grammar Books
  + Vocabulary...
  (notredamke.rkc.si)

• For the 6e : writing a fairy tale with a document to help you
  (Virginie Gosset - Ac. Strasbourg)

• 'Peace at Last' by Jill Murphy - Click to look inside.
  Resources : Questions - Matching Game PDF  - Missing Words  DOC 
  (primaryresources.co.uk)
  
  

• Literature Games (learninggamesforkids.com)
  

  Huckleberry Finn

  David Copperfield

  Gulliver’s Travels

  Madeline

  How to Eat Fried Worms

  To Kill A Mockingbird

  Where the Sidewalk Ends

  Where the Wild Things Are

  Wuthering Heights

  The Black Stallion

• World Fairy Day - activities to print - 24 June (eslholidaylessons.com)

• The Princess and the Dragon - animated story with sound + activities (British Council)

• How to Read a Short Story
  Before / During / After
  (englishcompanion.com)

• How to analyse a short story
  
  

• Sacred Pythons - a worksheet - Niveau : 5ème - Use of the preterit
  sent by sylvie Bertrand (Ac. Nantes)
  Read the tale.
  (africawithin.com)

• Little Red Riding Hood
  Read the story (with an animation) and start the activity.
  Activity created by: Renée Maufroid

  

• THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR :
  
  
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar : Ecouter l'histoire
    Resources - Activités manuelles - Jeux à imprimer - Activités en ligne - Activités inter-disciplinaires
    (crdp.ac-dijon.fr)
    
    
    
  • The Hungry Caterpillar - Texte oralisé - MP3
    (ac-clermont.fr)
    
    
    
    
  • The very hungry caterpillar - Illustrated text
    (web.tiscali.it)

    
    
    
    

  • The very hungry caterpillar - Activities to use with the book
    (thevirtualvine.com)

   

  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar - a lesson plan with flashcards
    (curry.edschool.virginia.edu)

    
    
    

• Interactives : Science - Language - History - Art (learner.org)

• Gulliver's travels
  "Watch the video and do the activity, you can look at your book if you need to, (New Wings 5)."
  Activity created by: Renée Maufroid
  
  

• Short animated stories with activities (BBC)
  
  

• Fairytale Land (lancsngfl.ac.uk)
  Read and listen, then do the activities.
  Ugly Duckling - Gingerbread Man - Cinderella - Little Red Riding Hood - Sleeping Beauty -
  Jack and the Bean Stalk - Goldilocks and the Three Bears

  

• Davy Crockett
  Read The story of Davy Crockett and answer the questions.
  Activity created by: Renée Maufroid

  

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - a mind map - page 36
  (coreknowledge.org)

  
  
  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  (wiredforbooks.org)

  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Activities
  (blackcat-cideb.com)

  
  
  

  MORE LINKS (englishacademy.site.voila.fr)
  
  
  
  
  Alice in Wonderland (1903) (YouTube)
  
  

The Entire Alice and Wonderland Story in One Tattoo
(neatorama.com)

See "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

• The Owl and the Pussycat :

  • Entraînement à la compréhension orale (Sylvie Marc Sagol)
    The Owl and the Pussycat : Number in the correct order

   

  • Mots inaccentués - Listen! (Sylvie Marc Sagol)
    The Owl and the Pussycat : "Fill in the blanks."

   

• Old MacDonald had a farm (British Council)
  "The kit includes ideas to engage the children in the tale in addition to a host of activities
  to exploit the story and to extend the topic of farms and farm animals."

  

• Projet pédagogique : le conte et ses personnages (Ac. Montpellier)
  "Monica Curnelle, professeur d'anglais au Collège Gaston Domergue à Sommières dans le Gard vous présente un projet pédagogique complet, menée en interdisciplinarité avec le professeur de français. Le projet s'inscrit sur plusieurs séquences permet d'aborder plusieurs aspects linguistiques et culturels...
  Les élèves abordent Halloween et Christmas en passant par le Gingerbread Man, Shrek et le film The Nightmare before Christmas de
  Tim Burton avant d'écrire et illuster leur propres contes en anglais et fabriquer, et déguster, des Gingerbread Men!"
  (Ac. Montpellier)
  
  "Monica Curnelle, professeur d'anglais au Collège Gaston Domergue à Sommières dans le Gard vous présente un projet pédagogique complet,
  mené en interdisciplinarité avec le professeur de français.
  Le projet s'inscrit sur plusieurs séquences permet d'aborder plusieurs aspects linguistiques et culturels :

  * 1ère séquence (novembre/décembre) : étude d'extraits du film de
  "The Nightmare before Christmas."
  Objectifs culturels : les fêtes traditionnelles (Halloween et Christmas) à travers la subversion du personnage traditionnel de Jack O'Lantern en Santa Claus.
  
  * 2ème séquence (janvier) : étude d'extraits de Shrek 1.
  Objectif culturel : le traitement des personnages des contes traditionnels.
  
  * 3ème séquence(février) : étude intégral d'un conte écrit "The Gingerbread Man."
  
  * 4ème séquence (mars) : écriture en groupe d'un conte illustré respectant le schéma narratif.

  Dossier téléchargeable (27 pages avec objectifs, mise en oeuvre et fiches de travail) à :
  http://pedagogie.ac-montpellier.fr/disciplines/anglais/ressources/pe/contes.html
  
  (Darren Rigby » Collège Jean Moulin, Perpignan)

• The Story of Jeremy Dragonfly and Schlomo the Dog (merpy.com)
  "Watch this little animation carefully and see how much you remember."
  - activity created by Renée Maufroid

  

• Andersen et les contes - Fiches d'activités pédagogiques (cndp.fr)

• La Princesse au petit pois - conte d'Andersen (CNDP)
  Fiche d'activités pédagogiques avec
  "des pistes de travail, le corrigé des exercices proposés et des liens vers des ressources en ligne."

  

• The Six Types of Folk Stories (edu-cyberpg.com) :
  Objectives: Students will be able to identify some key elements of
  folktales, fables, fairy tales, legends, myths and tall tales,
  and be able to differentiate between them.

• The Three Little Pigs - Sequencing Activity - interactive (crick.northants.sch.uk)
  
  
  
  

• Between the Lions Stories (PBS)
  "consists of Stories, Games, Things to Print, Songs...
  There are at least 70 stories that you can read and watch online.
  Each story links to related games. You can also print the story."

• Super Heroes (Comics US) - lesson plan / webquest
  (perso.wanadoo.fr/prof.danglais)
  
  

• Storytime Words with pictures (Enchanted Learning)
  
  

• Expressions, Idioms, and Sayings from the Fields of Theater, Dance, & Opera (avec exercice)
  (emse.fr)
  
  

• Places That Never Were - "Imaginary places that never existed. Do you know them?"
  (funtrivia.com)

• On pourrait donner les symboles et faire trouver les phrases correspondantes :
  
  
  
  • Stories (racontées avec des symboles) :
    The Crafty Fox - The Greedy Fox - A Stitch in Time - More Haste Less Speed - Theseus and the Minotaur
    - Theseus' Challenge - etc
    (symbolworld.org)
    
    
    
    
    
    
  • Red Riding Hood (text with symbols)
    (symbolworld.org)
    
    

   

• Synonyms (with answers ) : Say It Again!
  "Increase your vocabulary by deciphering the following references to wellknown fairy tales and nursery rhymes."
  ex : "Lovely Somnambulist Wakened by Royal Caress" = ???
  (Education World)

• Alice in Wonderland with interactive activities
  
  

• The Book of Pooh
  
  

• LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
  
  

  Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf by Roald Dahl (poetryarchive.org) Planning Little Red Riding Hood (Primary Resources)   Red Riding Hood (text with symbols) - with Worksheets to download (Li'l red riding hood sung by Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs)   Little Red Riding Hood (British Council) "This kit contains a variety of resources, from text and tasks to illustrations, flashcards and presentations, for you to download and use in your classroom. You can also find computer based interactive materials for students (You can listen to the story) on British Council's LearnEnglish Kids website."

• The Wolf and the Crane - animated - with sound - activities (anglofile)
  
  
  
  
• The Kingdom of the Lion
  "Watch and listen to the story. A short comprehension quiz follows." (anglofile)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Study questions and activities
  and "a collection of games that use words and topics from the short stories to help build vocabulary and understanding."

• A story - Snakes alive! with Interactive Activities :
  - Listen, and put some words in order
  - Quiz questions
  - Put the whole story in order
  - Do / Don't - Matching
  - Where does the tiger snake live?
  - Map work
  
  

• Stories (illustrated)
  Jataka tales from India and Nepal - Latin American Trickster Tales - Tales of Terror from Argentina - Forest Folklore - Magical Myths from Mexico - Changes and Colombia - Conflict and Cooperation
  - Storytellers of the French-speaking World (La Fontaine's Fables...)
  "Click on the unit titles in bold for printable thematic units including lesson plans, vocabulary cards, and copymasters for all stories ."
  (miscositas.com)
  
  

• Children's Literature Activities for the Classroom - Niveaux et Genres très variés (marcias-lesson-links.com)

• Takako's Great Adventure (faceweb.okanagan.bc.ca)
  excellent 10 episode story with supporting worksheets (vocabulary - questions - inferences - deductions) for each episode.
  (script visible, avec mots difficiles expliqués en anglais).
  
  

• Stories from Rainbow's Edge (home.freeuk.net)
  
  
  
  "Rainbow's Edge is a small village which contains most of the Nursery Rhyme characters that you have heard about.
  They spend their time wandering through the village telling their stories. But these stories are not their usual stories.
  They try to answer some unasked questions and are designed to make you THINK!!
  Each story has questions ( if you want to use them ) and is graded for difficulty"
  
  

• In A Dark, Dark House - This is a story and craft activity. (A Book To Make)
  
  

• Teachers@Random (randomhouse.com)
  "Our innovative teachers@random Web site features many teaching tools and classroom activities including title-specific teacher's guides developed by leading educators as well as author and illustrator biographies with exclusive interviews and full-color photographs."
  
  

Lesson plans :

• Flat Stanley Project: Le voyage de Flat Stanley de St Anne avec une classe de 6ème.
  (Ac. Martinique)

  

• Fables Activity Ideas (Chris Hardwidge)
  (primaryresources.co.uk)

• 'Tooth Fairy', 'The Princess and the Frog', 'Ella Enchanted' & 'Shrek': Fairy Tales
  - a lesson plan with movie segments
  (warmupsfollowups.blogspot.com)

  

• English Lesson Plan on World Fairy Day - June 24th (eslholidaylessons.com)
  
  
• Beauty and the Beast (YouTube)
  + PowerPoint Presentation
  + Beauty and the Beast : Introduction - a worksheet
  sent by Paola SANCHEZ (Mexico) :
  "I have my students listen to the audio two times without looking at the images.
  Next, I show them a PPT presentation with the main images from the story and have them retell it using their own words.
  Then I give them the script and have them look for the words which match some definitions."
  

Beauty and the Beast
1) Plot summary 2) Commentary 3) Variants 4) Adaptations 5) Beauty and the Beast in popular culture...
(Wikipedia)

• Special Reading Fun for 'Read Across America Day' : 5 lessons
  + links to dozens of great reading projects
  (Education World)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Andersen et les contes - Fiche d'activités pédagogiques
  Titre : La Princesse au petit pois
  Niveau : collège A2
  Langue : anglais
  Objectifs
  Culturel : les contes (Andersen et autres)
  Linguistique : compréhension écrite
  (CNDP)
  
  
  
• Myths and legends.
  "Have a look at the article, stories, word game, cartoons, trivia and links."
  (British Council)

  

Webquests :

• Fun with Fables - a webquest (its.guilford.k12.nc.us)
  "Is it a fable or a fairy tale? How do you tell the difference? Let's find out!"

• The Realm of Fairy Tales - a webquest (see : Fairy Tales Themes Chart) - (ma.beth.k12.pa.us)
  

Conversation questions :

• Fairytales too scary for modern children, say parents
  "Traditional fairytales are being ditched by parents because they are too scary for their young children, a study found."
  See TOP TEN FAIRYTALES NO LONGER READ TO CHILDREN
  (telegraph.co.uk)

• English Literature & Books (iteslj.org)

• Comics (iteslj.org)

Cartoons :