Our focus stories
Many of our focus stories below (in the order we have read them) are available to watch and listen to on YouTube. Watch them with your child and ask them questions to check their understanding, encourage them to reply to your questions using full sentences.
Questions could include: What is the title of the story? Where is the story set? Who are the characters in the story? What happened at the beginning of the story? What happened next? What happened at the end of the story? Was it a happy or sad ending? Why? Did you like the story? Why? / Why not?
Ask you child more specific questions relating to the story and see if they can retell the story too. Perhaps they could think of a different ending to the story. They could draw a picture of their ending and/or write about it!
To support the children to learn new vocabulary and internalise the story of ‘Boggity Bog’, they learnt actions to go with the story. Here they are reciting the words and performing the actions to go with the story:
Things to do to help your child:
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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