Storytelling - non-fiction texts

Liz Swanson

Session today was introducing non-fiction texts and ways of communicating to children.
We discussed the 6 different types of communication: recount ( retelling what happened), instruction (how to do something), persuasion (why you should do something), discussion (pros and cons of an issue), information (facts about something), and explanation (how something works or happens - cause and effect). Children need these forms of communication for everyday life e.g. relationships, jobs.

Here is an image of planning for Goldilocks and the Three Bears. You are able to create different types of communication and writing from this story. This is a way to incorporate non-fiction writing from fiction texts.

When telling the story it is handy to use actions and have the children do these with you. This will help their memory when retelling the story. We had modeled the purpose of using a person with props to help tell the story. This helps the children to visualise the story before they map it.

We then discussed mapping and a different form of mapping and sectioning with a different formation.

Here the images match up to the story. You read the images horizontally, across the page and each line represents a section/sentence of the story. Mapping this way helps the children to read aloud with the teacher and with the incorporation of actions, they will remember the story better.