Using Verb Story

 What is a verb story?

Verb stories are a skills flow activity so students use all four modalities of language: listening, speaking, writing, and reading. Verb stories help students to focus when listening, and to notice and use correct verb forms. They also help students to retell stories with appropriate scaffolding orally and to write a retelling of the story using correct verb forms.

 This is what we do?

The teacher tells a story and as the teacher talks we write the verbs on the whiteboard, each verb on a new line. Then we retell the story, using the verbs as prompts.  We also write the story and then compare our version with the original. In this way a skills flow is used – we listen, and then speak, and then write, and lastly we compare and notice the language differences.