Story Sacks

A story sack is a large cloth bag containing a favourite children’s book with supporting materials to stimulate language activities and make reading a memorable and enjoyable experience. In working with the children to tell the story, the following pointers are useful:

• Talk about the story and children’s favourite bits
• Ask children questions about the characters and the plot
• Retell the story using the models and story sack contents
• Find out more about the people and places in the story by looking at the non-fiction books to expand learning
• Draw a character or model one out of plasticene
• Draw a story map of the plot to help with re-telling the story
• Use the story to creatively engage the children in learning life lessons

We have Story Sacks in the Tracey Buckley Resource Library which you can borrow for your service.

Click on an image to view ful details of each Story Sack listed below;