ABSTRACT

A Practical Guide to Using Storyline Across the Curriculum provides a comprehensive introduction to the Storyline approach to teaching and learning – an approach that embraces and encourages children’s passion for learning. Putting children at the centre of learning, the book explores how educators and teachers can harness pupils’ innate appetite for stories to make interdisciplinary teaching and learning enjoyable and successful.

Demonstrating how teachers can easily use the Storyline approach within the curriculum, this book offers a step-by-step introduction to learning developed through the use of narrative. Key topics explained include:

  • planning individual lessons and sequences of lessons;
  • guidance on planning and progress;
  • assessment and evaluation of learning;
  • links with visible learning and growth mindset approaches.

Filled with detailed examples of storylines that have been tried and tested in the classroom, A Practical Guide to Using Storyline Across the Curriculum offers new and experienced teachers an accessible guide to the Storyline approach, with ready-to-use ideas to enable, inspire and support learners.

part I|38 pages

The theory, philosophy and approach explained

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|7 pages

What is Storyline?

chapter 2|11 pages

Learning and the curriculum

chapter 3|11 pages

Learning and pedagogy

part II|40 pages

Four approaches to planning a storyline

chapter 5|11 pages

The Street

A WWII storyline, plan and process

chapter 6|14 pages

The Letter

The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark and a Health and Wellbeing storyline

chapter 7|5 pages

The Challenge

Junior Dragons’ Den and The Apprentice storylines

chapter 8|8 pages

The Visitor

A Visitor from Space, The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch and a Rabbie Burns storyline

part III|30 pages

Assessment and planning approaches

chapter 9|11 pages

Choosing your Storyline approach

chapter 10|8 pages

Storyline and curriculum planning