Session 14

Focus objectives

• To tell a story using story maps as notes
• To use drama strategies to explore key moments in a plot

Key teaching approaches

• Storytelling
• Role-play
• Freeze-frame

Ask the children to work in pairs, with one in role as Jim and one as Barney, as Jim tells his story during a shared reading session. The children can use their story maps to help them. Discuss with the children how Barney might feel hearing this story. Then, asking the children to work in groups of five or six, ask them to freeze-frame the scene on the rooftops when Barney sees the street boys for the first time. Ask the children, in role as Barney, to voice their thoughts and make a note of these to refer to in the next session.  Model this process to the children.