This document provides guidance for students to learn about and retell traditional tales. It defines traditional tales as stories that have been passed down orally between generations. Students will read and compare traditional tales, predict endings, and watch presentations of tales from other cultures. They will practice retelling tales using different voices, expressions, and volumes for various characters. The goal is for students to use storytelling techniques to make their retellings engaging.

1. Year 2

2. What is a traditional tale?
Any story in a
book with pictures
Tales that have been
passed on from place to
place by storytellers
and handed down
orally from generation
to generation A brand new story
that was written
recently

3. Which of these are
traditional tales?

4. We are learning to...
• Read traditional stories with examples of predictable and patterned language
• Retell familiar stories using appropriate voice for different characters
•Compare the themes, settings, plots and characters in stories.
•Predict incidents and endings based on experience of traditional tales
•Watch presentations of traditional tales from another culture & discuss how
mood and atmosphere were created. Describe characters orally and in writing
• Write your own short stories in the style of a traditional tale

5. WILF: You to use expression and different
voices when retelling the tale
WALT: Retell a traditional tale using
appropriate voices for different characters

6. 1. Listen to today’s story carefully – listen out for different
voices and expression I use when telling you the tale.
2. Talk to your partner about what I did to make the story
sound interesting.
3. Practice re-telling the story to your partner. Experiment
using different voices, expressions and volumes to make
your story more interesting to the reader.
4. Colour in character masks to help you
to re-tell the story.

7. Different voices for different characters
Changing the volume of your voice
Altering the tone of your voice
When to use expression
Using actions

8. Who is going to be brave enough
to re-tell the story to everyone?
What did they do well
when they re-told the story?
What could they do to make
it even better next time?

9. Q. What is our new literacy topic?
A. Traditional tales.
Q. What is a ‘traditional’ tale?
A. A tale that has been passed on from place to place by
storytellers and handed down orally from generation to
generation.
Q. Can you give me a few examples of traditional tales?
A. Jack and the beanstalk, Cinderella, snow white, three
Billy boats gruff...