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Retelling, role plays, setting to stage

Teachers often use retelling after reading out a new or familiar story, this helps to
understand the structure – beginning, theme development and end, and this facilitates
memory development – event sequence, characters etc. It also helps with vocabulary

acquisition and children remember interesting phrases or characters’ names. Telling the
story to others fosters self-expression: what tone of voice your character uses (threatening,
cunning, angry, friendly), which words and sentences they use.