This lesson plan incorporates listening skills and organizational skills to encourage creativity through storytelling.
Library Media Skills Objectives: The student will use creative media to retell a story, i.e., flannel board.
Curriculum Objectives: The activity may be a part of a unit on folk and fairy tales.
Title: Sample Flannel Board Mermaid Pattern
Resource List: Books, videotape, URL's, and flannel board materials
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| Adapted for SOS by: Jennifer Nace, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University |
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| School Library Media Activities Monthly |
Instructional Roles: The library media specialist or teacher may work with students in making flannel board figures for retelling a story of their choice.
Activities and Procedures: Begin the session with Andersen's story of "The Little Mermaid". Show a picture of the famous statue and introduce some of the many artists' versions of the story. Provide students with internet access to the following versions: http://www.denmark.org/mermaid_June96/Captured.html http://home.earthlink.net/~jcorbally/eng218/rmermaid.html http://perrynet.stark.k12.oh.us/webunits/Gifted/LittleMermaid/5.html
After students have had a chance to read and view the story on their own, they will participate in making a flannel board version of their own. Discuss how flannel boards are done. What characters do they need? How can the background scenes be done? How many changes in scenery are needed? How will they design their figures? Provide a master mermaid figure and discuss scale of figures. Provide tracing paper, fabric or felt, and velcro. When students have made their figures, they should practice telling the story. A show may be given for other classes.
Follow-Up: Students may write about or discuss how mermaids differ from version to version of the same story or from story to story.
Evaluation: The student will listen to a story about mermaids, plan the figures necessary to retelling it on flannel board, and make the figures in order to retell or perform the story.
