🎭 Dramatic Play
Provide props and roles that encourage children to use language, negotiate ideas, and act out experiences.
🎭 Storytelling & Retelling
Build narrative language by giving children opportunities to tell, retell, act out, sequence, and invent stories.
NARRATIVE LANGUAGE
Let Children Become Storytellers
Stories can grow from books, real experiences, dramatic play, children's drawings, photographs, classroom studies, and imagination.
🧸 Story Props
Use puppets, felt pieces, objects, photographs, and simple props to support retelling.
🔢 Sequencing
Talk about what happened first, next, and last while encouraging children to connect events.
💭 Story Creation
Invite children to invent characters, settings, problems, solutions, and endings.