Travelling Tales - Giraffes Can’t Dance from Hope Education KIT
Travelling Tales - Giraffes Can’t Dance from Hope Education KIT
Product code: HE1823196
Product Description
Is there a better message to explore with your pupils than, 'dance to your own music'? With Travelling Tales: Giraffes Can't Dance, you can plan a series of cross-curricular lessons centered around a quality text that provides pupils a healthy message about self-confidence and breaking down stereotypes.
Gerald is a giraffe who loves to dance. But upon approaching the dance floor at the Jungle Dance, the other animals laugh at the very thought of a Giraffe dancing. Fortunately, Gerald's confidence is bolstered by a friendly cricket who tells him to 'dance to your own music'.
The Travelling Tales series are a one-stop shop for all your storytelling resource needs, and this one is no exception. You can give your voice a rest and let someone else read the story to your pupils with the included audio book CD. A plush giraffe and a printed story mat can also be used by you and your pupils to re-tell the story in a memorable way. The range of cross-curricular resources in this Travelling Tales story sack can be used to help pupils make connections between what they learn and read as well as encourage less enthused readers.
- Have all the resources and inspiration needed to plan effective storytelling lessons using Giraffes Can't Dance as the focus.
- Help pupils make connections in their learning using the cross-curricular activities and ideas included in this bank of resources.
- Inspire and excite you pupils about reading and encourage them to explore themes of self-confidence.
What's in the Travelling Tales sack?
- 1 x copy of Giraffes Can't Dance with audio book CD
- 1 x plush giraffe**
- 1 x Classmates Animal Stamper Set*
- 1 x printed story mat**
- 1 x Hand Drum and Beater
- 1 x animal board game**
- 1 x Teacher Guide**
Contents may vary from description due to availability.
**Products are not affiliated with, or approved by, Giles Andreae or Hachette Children's Group
- Quality texts from well known authors, great for sharing with children; the patterned language promotes choral reading and retelling, naturally encouraging audience participation!
- Each bag provides a window into a new world where the children can learn new ideas and information through engaging and exciting stories
- Good quality materials support the texts, allowing children to create their own play with the characters, further developing vocabulary and language
- Each bag contains a related non-fiction text, developing the idea of the story with further information
- The games link to the text and provide the opportunity to work collaboratively and take turns, while extending and developing the story
- Provide opportunities for children to express views about events or characters in a story and to answer questions about what happened.
- Provide wide range of media and materials to share thoughts, ideas, and feelings.
- After listening to stories, children can express views about events or characters in the story and answer questions about why things happened.
- Expose children to a wide range of reading material with lots of opportunities to engage with books that fire their imagination and interest.
- Pupils are given the opportunity to explain their understanding of books whilst developing comprehension skills as well as increasing vocabulary.
- Resources allow children to adopt, create, and sustain roles of characters in the stories.
- Opportunities for improvisation as well as script drama are provided.
- Many opportunities for discussion of stories and books with the teacher including non-fiction texts.
This set includes a set of Voice Sound Steps. A Hope developed product, the Voice Sound Steps encourage children to get noisy and explore their voices!
Each step has an image and sound printed on it, as children dance and jump to each footprint they can shout out the sound, making for a lively and engaging early phonics game.
Further Information
- Age Range
- 3-7 Years
- Age Recommended from
- 3 Years
- Age Recommended to
- 7 Years
- Brand
- Travelling Tales
- EYFS Aim
- Communication and Language; Literacy
- Genre
- Popular Stories
- Key Stage
- EYFSKey Stage 1
- Primary Learning Outcome
- Reading Comprehension; Spoken Language KS1
- Product Type
- Story Sacks
Is there a better message to explore with your pupils than, 'dance to your own music'? With Travelling Tales: Giraffes Can't Dance, you can plan a series of cross-curricular lessons centered around a quality text that provides pupils a healthy message about self-confidence and breaking down stereotypes.
Gerald is a giraffe who loves to dance. But upon approaching the dance floor at the Jungle Dance, the other animals laugh at the very thought of a Giraffe dancing. Fortunately, Gerald's confidence is bolstered by a friendly cricket who tells him to 'dance to your own music'.
The Travelling Tales series are a one-stop shop for all your storytelling resource needs, and this one is no exception. You can give your voice a rest and let someone else read the story to your pupils with the included audio book CD. A plush giraffe and a printed story mat can also be used by you and your pupils to re-tell the story in a memorable way. The range of cross-curricular resources in this Travelling Tales story sack can be used to help pupils make connections between what they learn and read as well as encourage less enthused readers.
- Have all the resources and inspiration needed to plan effective storytelling lessons using Giraffes Can't Dance as the focus.
- Help pupils make connections in their learning using the cross-curricular activities and ideas included in this bank of resources.
- Inspire and excite you pupils about reading and encourage them to explore themes of self-confidence.
What's in the Travelling Tales sack?
- 1 x copy of Giraffes Can't Dance with audio book CD
- 1 x plush giraffe**
- 1 x Classmates Animal Stamper Set*
- 1 x printed story mat**
- 1 x Hand Drum and Beater
- 1 x animal board game**
- 1 x Teacher Guide**
Contents may vary from description due to availability.
**Products are not affiliated with, or approved by, Giles Andreae or Hachette Children's Group
- Quality texts from well known authors, great for sharing with children; the patterned language promotes choral reading and retelling, naturally encouraging audience participation!
- Each bag provides a window into a new world where the children can learn new ideas and information through engaging and exciting stories
- Good quality materials support the texts, allowing children to create their own play with the characters, further developing vocabulary and language
- Each bag contains a related non-fiction text, developing the idea of the story with further information
- The games link to the text and provide the opportunity to work collaboratively and take turns, while extending and developing the story
- Provide opportunities for children to express views about events or characters in a story and to answer questions about what happened.
- Provide wide range of media and materials to share thoughts, ideas, and feelings.
- After listening to stories, children can express views about events or characters in the story and answer questions about why things happened.
- Expose children to a wide range of reading material with lots of opportunities to engage with books that fire their imagination and interest.
- Pupils are given the opportunity to explain their understanding of books whilst developing comprehension skills as well as increasing vocabulary.
- Resources allow children to adopt, create, and sustain roles of characters in the stories.
- Opportunities for improvisation as well as script drama are provided.
- Many opportunities for discussion of stories and books with the teacher including non-fiction texts.
This set includes a set of Voice Sound Steps. A Hope developed product, the Voice Sound Steps encourage children to get noisy and explore their voices!
Each step has an image and sound printed on it, as children dance and jump to each footprint they can shout out the sound, making for a lively and engaging early phonics game.
Further Information
- Age Range
- 3-7 Years
- Age Recommended from
- 3 Years
- Age Recommended to
- 7 Years
- Brand
- Travelling Tales
- EYFS Aim
- Communication and Language; Literacy
- Genre
- Popular Stories
- Key Stage
- EYFSKey Stage 1
- Primary Learning Outcome
- Reading Comprehension; Spoken Language KS1
- Product Type
- Story Sacks
