1st Edition
A Practical Guide to Using Storyline Across the Curriculum Inspiring Learning with Passion
A Practical Guide to Using Storyline Across the Curriculum provides a comprehensive introduction to the Storyline approach to teaching and learning – an approach that embraces and encourages children’s passion for learning. Putting children at the centre of learning, the book explores how educators and teachers can harness pupils’ innate appetite for stories to make interdisciplinary teaching and learning enjoyable and successful.
Demonstrating how teachers can easily use the Storyline approach within the curriculum, this book offers a step-by-step introduction to learning developed through the use of narrative. Key topics explained include:
- planning individual lessons and sequences of lessons;
- guidance on planning and progress;
- assessment and evaluation of learning;
- links with visible learning and growth mindset approaches.
Filled with detailed examples of storylines that have been tried and tested in the classroom, A Practical Guide to Using Storyline Across the Curriculum offers new and experienced teachers an accessible guide to the Storyline approach, with ready-to-use ideas to enable, inspire and support learners.
Part I: The Theory, Philosophy and Approach Explained
- Introduction
- What is storyline?
- Learning and the curriculum
- Learning and pedagogy
- What does Storyline look like in the classroom?
- The Street
- The Letter
- The Challenge
- The Visitor
- Choosing your Storyline approach
- Storyline and curriculum planning
- Wats of presenting and assessing the learning
Part II: Four Approaches to Planning a Storyline
A storyline on the topic of World War 2
Storylines on The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark and on working with another school
A Junior Dragon’s Den Storyline
Storylines about visitors from space, from novels and from a poet
Part III: Assessment and Planning Approaches
Part IV: Appendices: Practitioner Examples, Plans, Case Studies and Templates
- Storyline in a day
- Alien writing frame
- Practitioner example: Alien story
- Practitioner example: WW11 example plan
- Practitioner example: Highland Clearances (The Street)
- Practitioner example: Wizard School (The Street)
- Practitioner example: M Q of S (The Letter)
- Practitioner example: Forest School (The Letter)
- Practitioner example: Our Railway (The Challenge)
- Practitioner example: Middle Ages (The Challenge)
- Practitioner example: Egypt: (The Visitor)
- Practitioner example: Wind Farm (The Visitor)
- Practitioner example: Noisy neighbours and Refugees (The Street)
- Synopsis planning format
- Blank planning format
- Storyline Planning template
- WW11 complete synopsis
- WW11 complete plan
- Rainforest complete synopsis
- Rainforest complete plan
- Deforestation example
- Assessment blank proforma
- Completed assessment grid
24. Using Templates
Biography
Peter Tarrant has been involved in teaching for 36 years and is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Initial Teacher Education at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has been involved in a number of research projects involving topics such as teacher confidence and behaviour management, developing reflective practice, and using a peer learning approach towards metacognitive practice. He is author of Metacognition in the Primary Classroom (Routledge 2015). Peter regularly does INSET in schools and colleges and can be contacted at [email protected].
