Story-Little Red Riding Hood

Storytelling is an effective way to teach lessons.  It is easy to use stories to get our learners' attention as they love listening to stories. The role of a good storyteller is to make the learners to think and predict during the storytelling sessions.  In order to achieve this goal, there are two principle questions teachers should ask at important junctures of the story: "What will happen next?" and "Why?"  Even Math and Science concepts can come to life when it is introduced through a narrative. 


Pre-teaching:
 

Elicit from the students how much they know about wolves, e.g. • What do wolves look like? (big dogs) • Has anyone ever seen a wolf? •Where do they live? (Arctic, mountains and forests) • Do you like them? Why?, etc. •What are carnivores?  Can you name some carnivores? Extra explanation: Pack - Wolves are very social animals. They like to live in groups called packs. The average wolf pack has six to seven members. Packs do almost everything together. They hunt together, eat together, sleep together and everyone helps to take care of the pups. Howling for a wolf is very important. Howling is one way wolves “talk” to each other. A group of wolves may howl to locate other pack members, or they may howl to let other wolf packs know “we live here”.   Take the learners through a quiz based on the slide on wolf facts Ask them whose baby is a calf (cow) and a fawn (deer).  Ask them whose baby is also called a pup (dog). Ask them to give the sounds of different animals: Dogs – bark; lions – roar; cats – meow; elephants – trumpet; frogs – croak; monkeys - chatter Teach them the meaning of carnivores (only meat), herbivores (only plants) and omnivores (both meat and plants).  Ask them to list other animals under each category. Carnivores – tiger, lion, fox, cheetah, leopard Herbivores – goat, sheep, squirrel Omnivores – dog, cat, crow Story Session Show the learners the story book and tell them they are going to watch an interesting story written by the Brothers Grimm, about a little girl and a wolf. Play the story of Little Red Riding Hood.   After the animation, ask the learners to tell what they have learnt from the story e.g.,– • that we should not disobey our mother; • that we should not talk to strangers; • that we should be careful when talking to people. •Not to give out information to strangers Ask them to name the characters in the story – mother, father, Red Riding Hood, wolf, grandmother Ask them to name the setting for the story – forest and the cottage  Activities Elicit responses from the students.  Make them name other parts of the body and give their uses in complete sentences e.g.,  leg – to run, walk, climb ( We walk with our legs.) hand – write, hold, cook, Mouth – speak The story has been used to teach a few problems in Maths. Elicit responses from the students. The story can also be used to teach a science concept.  Elicit responses from the students. Can you label the parts of a plant?  After getting the answers from the students.  Make them give the uses of each part in complete sentences: • the bud becomes flower; • the flower makes fruits which give seeds; • the leaf makes food for the plant; • the stem supports the plant and carries water from the root to the other parts of the plant; • the root collects water and mineral from the soil; And with this we come to the end of the story on Little Riding Hood.