- draw pictures of different scenes to hold up while they tell you the story
- make a book with their own written text of what happened
- act out the story
- record themselves telling the story and then listen back to it
- write a song that tells the story
- create a dance that highlights the important pieces of the story
- simply tell the story, before they go to bed, after dinner or in the car
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Tell Me a Story
Over the last few months I have been taking short online course through Ausburg Press. So far, one of my favorite has been one on Building Biblical literacy. The last 10 or 15 minutes of the course the instructor gave us tangible ways to encourage and promote Biblical Literacy. Some of the tasks can be done at church both during the worship service and during Sunday School. Others activities are intended to be modeled in out everyday lives, such as reading the bible in public, which I mentioned last week. But one that I think is really important is encouraging children to retell bible stories in their own words. In order to retell a story, we must truly know the story, we must internalize the meaning and the important elements. The Christmas Story is one of the best known Bible stories, so I encourage you to ask your child to tell you the story. There are so many ways for them to retell this story! They could:
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