Active learning - Story telling

Children learn in many different ways and have different learning styles. Opportunities for children to experience language through song and rhyme, storytelling and games offer children ways to interact with the new language and with one another in a dynamic and social environment.

Through active methods and physical response children feel safe to explore and experiment with the new sounds. For those who prefer to listen and observe, they absorb the new language by watching others and gradually increase in confidence, until they too are joining in, responding to what they hear and see and engaging with others in short conversations and role-play.

Sound spelling story

A visiting teacher introduces and tells a new story to the class in German. He presents the new words using word flashcards. Each new word is associated with an action which children perform each time they say the word.

The teacher starts to read the story and the children join in, looking at the written words and pronouncing them correctly.