1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,816 (Oscar) One time, I went to Legoland. 2 00:00:03,011 --> 00:00:04,041 (child) Oh! 3 00:00:04,196 --> 00:00:07,066 (Noelle) Because our class does storytelling, story acting, 4 00:00:07,516 --> 00:00:09,866 our students know and respect each other more. 5 00:00:10,936 --> 00:00:14,846 It's a language and literacy practice, really, but it does so much more. 6 00:00:15,046 --> 00:00:17,806 It helps the kids with their social emotional development. 7 00:00:18,056 --> 00:00:20,906 It's really community building within the classroom. 8 00:00:21,086 --> 00:00:23,096 (child) I went to Legoland. 9 00:00:23,323 --> 00:00:24,323 10 00:00:31,410 --> 00:00:34,336 (Sarah) Amigos is a two way immersion school 11 00:00:34,526 --> 00:00:37,226 for students, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 12 00:00:37,466 --> 00:00:41,861 At Amigos, we look to support biliteracy in the early years 13 00:00:41,861 --> 00:00:45,756 by really developing and strengthening oral language skills, 14 00:00:45,756 --> 00:00:48,496 and the students' ability to tell stories, 15 00:00:48,496 --> 00:00:51,566 understand the shape of a story, and be able to share that 16 00:00:51,566 --> 00:00:53,786 with oral language in both Spanish and English. 17 00:00:53,936 --> 00:00:57,416 (child) With my mom, my dad. 18 00:00:57,416 --> 00:01:02,216 (Oscar) So storytelling, story acting, we first ask a child to tell us a story, 19 00:01:02,506 --> 00:01:04,956 and it could be a personal story of theirs, 20 00:01:04,956 --> 00:01:06,846 or something that they have made up. 21 00:01:06,946 --> 00:01:09,476 And then when it's time to do the story acting, 22 00:01:09,616 --> 00:01:15,116 we are actually seeing a visual representation of their story. 23 00:01:15,166 --> 00:01:17,126 And there was petals. 24 00:01:17,216 --> 00:01:20,166 We're actually working with language, but at the same time, 25 00:01:20,166 --> 00:01:22,176 we're working with elements of a story. 26 00:01:22,456 --> 00:01:25,086 (Oscar) You can use Legos to make a car. 27 00:01:25,586 --> 00:01:26,916 (children) Brrmm, brmm 28 00:01:27,216 --> 00:01:28,836 It has setting, characters. 29 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,616 (child) A brother. (Noelle) Brother. 30 00:01:31,666 --> 00:01:35,116 (Noelle) Each day, a different student has a turn to tell a story to me. 31 00:01:35,576 --> 00:01:37,506 It was a family of turtles. 32 00:01:37,506 --> 00:01:39,266 (child) Yeah. (Noelle) Ah, okay. 33 00:01:39,626 --> 00:01:41,406 So there was a family of turtles. 34 00:01:41,926 --> 00:01:44,296 I take the story dictation during rest time. 35 00:01:44,296 --> 00:01:47,436 It's a quiet time, so I call the student over. 36 00:01:47,716 --> 00:01:49,510 (child) The shark. 37 00:01:49,746 --> 00:01:51,926 There's a shark in your story? >>Student: Yeah. 38 00:01:51,926 --> 00:01:53,766 (Noelle) It just probably takes five or ten minutes. 39 00:01:53,906 --> 00:01:54,866 They tell me the story. 40 00:01:55,100 --> 00:02:00,656 (child) Then I [speaks Spanish]. 41 00:02:00,836 --> 00:02:02,826 (Noelle) And often because we're a bilingual school, 42 00:02:02,826 --> 00:02:05,926 it's really a motivator for the kids who are just learning Spanish 43 00:02:05,926 --> 00:02:07,656 to try to tell the story in Spanish. 44 00:02:07,676 --> 00:02:10,576 And then we clean up the mats, we get in our circle, 45 00:02:10,576 --> 00:02:13,146 and then I call the student up to sit next to me. 46 00:02:13,226 --> 00:02:15,176 There was a family of turtles. 47 00:02:15,396 --> 00:02:16,766 I read the story aloud. 48 00:02:17,296 --> 00:02:19,816 Do you want to be the baby? >>Student: Uh-huh. 49 00:02:20,106 --> 00:02:23,526 (Noelle) And then they are responsible for choosing who the actors are. 50 00:02:23,686 --> 00:02:25,566 (child) Do you want to be the mommy? 51 00:02:25,606 --> 00:02:27,186 (Noelle) We just go in a circle. 52 00:02:27,186 --> 00:02:30,326 So it's not popularity contest, but more of just whose turn it is. 53 00:02:30,326 --> 00:02:33,096 Do you want to be the sister? (child) [speaks Spanish] 54 00:02:33,096 --> 00:02:35,326 (Noelle) And they put them in their places, 55 00:02:35,326 --> 00:02:37,326 and then I read the story for a final time, 56 00:02:37,326 --> 00:02:38,346 and they act it out. 57 00:02:38,376 --> 00:02:40,746 The turtle said "Hi!" to the girl. 58 00:02:41,436 --> 00:02:45,346 (child) Hi. I'm not the girl, she is. 59 00:02:48,486 --> 00:02:51,630 (Noelle) Oh, so if you're a turtle, then you have to go like that. 60 00:02:52,106 --> 00:02:55,336 For the very shy kids, it gives them a structure and a platform 61 00:02:55,336 --> 00:02:57,076 and rules to be able to do that. 62 00:02:57,486 --> 00:03:00,906 And then the shark ate all the turtles. 63 00:03:01,816 --> 00:03:04,306 For other kids, it gives them that much-needed like 64 00:03:04,306 --> 00:03:07,026 "This is my turn. I've been wanting this all day long!" 65 00:03:07,026 --> 00:03:08,866 So it depends on the child. 66 00:03:09,096 --> 00:03:14,356 But it is very powerful for everyone to have that kind of spotlight on you. 67 00:03:16,620 --> 00:03:18,000 Wow, look at the shark. 68 00:03:18,137 --> 00:03:19,397 Look at the shark!