Stockton-on-the-Forest Primary School
Happy, Healthy, Learning for Life and Caring for All
Talk through Stories in Reception
We use Talk Through Stories in Reception which is designed to extend and deepen children’s vocabulary so that they can understand the books they will soon be able to read for themselves.
In Story week, we help children to get to know the story well: the plot, the characters, and their actions and motives.
In Vocabulary week, we focus on eight words from the story. These are words that children are unlikely to hear in everyday conversation but are likely to come across in stories. For example, in I’m in charge by Jeanne Willis, we chose bellowed, startled, barged, sneaked, grinned, dreadful, stomped, refused.
Children’s understanding of each word is then developed in the context of their everyday lives.
Talk through Stories texts
