STORYTELLING: “A TASTE OF THE MOON” (Narración y Dramatización)

STORYTELLING: “A TASTE OF THE MOON”

“A taste of the moon” by Michael Grejniec is a very nice book. It is about the animals that want to taste the moon, but the moon is so far and they are not able to catch it. So they have to cooperate and help themselves to reach the moon. After making a high tower, they get to reach and take a little piece to taste it.

I have chosen this book for several reasons:

-I think that it is a very interesting book for children because the main characters are the animals and children love animals. This book is appropriate for children between 3 to 5 years old.After reading it you can do activities related with animals.

-This story teaches us that it is very important to cooperate and to do things together to reach our objective, no matter how is each person.

-The structure of this book is appropriate for children because it is a quite repetitive and cumulative. This is a good way to catch the attention of children and children can understand the story more easily. Repetition is an important resource because children can anticipate what will happen.   

-The pictures are good, because they are more or less like in real life. Pictures at all the time appear to facilitate the understanding of the tale. Illustrations take a very important role because it is a way to introduce them in the story.

-With this tale we can work animals, the concept “above and below”, attitudes of help and cooperation and enjoyment by reading.

Some actiivties that teacher can do with children before, while and after reading this book are:

Before reading:
-Flashcards with different animals.
-They can talk about some places where animals live.
-Showing the cover of the book, teacher can ask to children what is the book about and what animals they want to appear in the story.

While reading:
-While the teacher is reading the story, she or he should try to engage children. For example, teacher can ask what animal is going after, or how we can call to the other animal...
-Children can draw their favourite animal.


After reading:
-Visit a farm.
-Visit the zoo.
-Mask-making.
-Make costumes.
-With the masks and constumes they can prepare a play.