Tag Key Stage 2

Week Six: Characterization

Characterization; Whole and small group exercises to develop your characters and help your listeners distinguish between them.

Week Five: Repetition & Sequences

Repetition and Sequences; why these are an important part of oral storytelling, and opportunities to practice creating phrases help your audience listen and understand.

Week Four: Speech

Speech; group exercises to develop conversations between characters to add interest to your stories.

Week Three: Sensations

Sensations; sound, taste, emotion, sight, smell and touch. Group exercises to get all those descriptive phrases into your storytelling.

Week Two: Relocation

Relocation; reset a story in a familiar place, then turn victim into villian. Play games to generate scary words.

Week One: The Fundamentals

The Fundamentals; curating the space for your group to work in, and a visualisation exercise making a story out of a simple song.

Montgomeryshire Folktales

How to work with local folktales. With ideas for half day, whole day or longer projects. There are downloadable Welsh and English language versions of the stories used and lots of videos to watch.

The Whist Hound

The Story of the Hounds of the Wild Hunt on the Wrekin Hill. A video telling and a kamishibai version with information on how to replicate the project with your local stories.

Mrs Merrick

The Story of Wellington’s first railway accident. A video telling and a kamishibai version with information on how to replicate the project with your local stories.

Honest John

How a story of a stick collecter from Denmark ended up at Apley Manor, Telford. A video telling and a kamishibai version with information on how to replicate the project with your local stories.

The Death Bird

The Story of an old lady from Shifnal and her encounter with an owl. A video telling with information on how to use archives to inform stories.

Tom Moody

The Story of “whipper-in” Tom Moody and how his ghost haunts Apley Woods in Wellington. A video telling with information on how to use archives to inform stories.

North Shropshire Storywalks

Download six 90 minute walks each with its own story compiled by Jake Evans while serving his storytelling apprenticeship at Mythstories.

Making Wem

Pupils from the Primary School in Wem tell their own town’s stories in their old words.

Fouke le fitz waryn

The tale of Shropshire’s own real-life Robin Hood. Shown in an auca (cartoon form) of his first and last adventure and then as the full epic set of quatrains by Michael Rosen.

The Ramayana Part 15

Part 15 of the Indian, Hindu epic. The end game is played out. With background facts for Key Stage 3 pupils.

The Ramayana Part 14

Part 14 of the Indian, Hindu epic. Nala directs the building of a causeway and the battle begins. With background facts for Key Stage 3 pupils

The Ramayana Part 13

Part 13 of the Indian, Hindu epic. Hanuman finds Sita and sets the city alight. With background facts for Key Stage 3 pupils.

The Ramayana Part 12

Part 12 of the Indian, Hindu epic. Hanuman leaps across the ocean to find Sita. With background facts for Key Stage 3 pupils.

The Ramayana Part 11

Part 11 of the Indian, Hindu epic. Surgriva, King of the Apes and Monkeys & Hanuman, son of the Wind God, offer their help. With background facts for Key Stage 3 pupils.

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