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Story Steps One: Watch, Listen and Move
Before You Step In: Introducing Ideas to Spark Curiosity
Here are some questions you could ask the children before they take part in this story for the first time.
Do any of you have a clock in your house? Maybe you have a few of them. What rooms are they in? Tell me about the clocks in your house. Do they make a ticking noise? Is there an alarm clock? Have you ever seen a grandfather clock? They can be really tall. Some of them are taller than me.
Today’s story is set in the land of nursery rhymes, and it’s about a mouse who ran up a grandfather clock.
A very brave mouse runs all the way to the top of a very tall clock, but what happens when the clock strikes one o’clock? Will the mouse find somewhere to hide?
Talk About the Story: Expanding Understanding through Imagination and Ideas
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Story Steps Two: Revisit and Retell
Story Cards: Supporting Recall, Sequencing and Further Exploration of the Story
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Listen to the Nursery Rhyme: Supporting Auditory Memory and Helping Children Recall and Retell a Part of the Story
We’re providing audio only version of the Nursery Rhyme Hickory Dickory Dock. If your children enjoyed this moment in the story, they may love the chance to listen to it again.
Story Steps Three: More to Explore
Supporting Deeper Engagement: Providing an Act-it-out Script, Key Vocabulary and Picture Book Recommendations to Enrich the Story Experience
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