Talk Through Stories/Drawing Club

Talk Through Stories and Drawing Club

In class F, we use both Talk Through Stories (Ruth Miskin) and Drawing Club (Greg Botrill) to combine both skills in communication and language but also mark making/writing.

Talk Through Stories has developed a range of systematic planning to extend and deepen children’s vocabulary step by step. In the first week, ‘story week’, children get to know the story really well. They explore the characters and their actions and motives. During the second week, ‘vocabulary week’, we explore 8 words from the story which have been specifically selected to develop children’s understand of each word in the context of their every day lives.

After each Talk Through Stories carpet session, we then begin our ‘Drawing Club’ session. The picture we draw changes daily; it may be the character, setting, or a ‘what if’ adventure. After taking part in a modelled drawing lesson, the children then each draw a picture in their books and as the year goes on they progress from giving meanings to their marks, to recognisable drawings/letters, to simple CVC words all the way to full sentences. ‘The one thing that the world of story has to have is magic and Drawing Club is the golden key to open the door to it for children to go on an adventure with them. The progress children can make through Drawing Club across all areas of the curriculum is exceptional with the added bonus of confidence and joy.’ (Greg Botrill)