
Story Sack | Learning To Read | NPT3
7/6/2021 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Make a storytelling sack by using a drawstring bag or a pillowcase.
Use a pillowcase or drawstring back to make a storytelling sack. Fill it with toy animals, LEGO figures, or other small random objects. Each person takes a turn removing one object at a time. The first person uses the object to start a story. As each storyteller removes an object, she uses it as her prompt to add to the story. The person who pulls the last object from the bag ends the story.
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Learning to Read is a local public television program presented by WNPT
Funding for LEARNING TO READ is provided by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Hays Foundation.

Story Sack | Learning To Read | NPT3
7/6/2021 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Use a pillowcase or drawstring back to make a storytelling sack. Fill it with toy animals, LEGO figures, or other small random objects. Each person takes a turn removing one object at a time. The first person uses the object to start a story. As each storyteller removes an object, she uses it as her prompt to add to the story. The person who pulls the last object from the bag ends the story.
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Hey, let's pull something out of the sack.
Sometimes I use a story stack with my daughter.
First, I fill a bag with different items from around the house.
Then, we take turns telling a story based on what's inside.
What else about her?
Does she have any?
- I love the pink stuff.
And it was pretty.
- Each piece adds to the plot.
So, you never know where the story will go.
My daughter can be creative and use her imagination.
And she's learning how to put together a story.
She's also working on her listening skills.
Blew the mermaid back into the ocean.
(wind swooshing) She has to pay close attention to what I'm saying, so she can be ready for her turn.
- Along the oceans.
And along the pond.
- Our stories don't always have a perfect ending but it's always a happy one.
- And they all lived happily ever after.
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Learning to Read is a local public television program presented by WNPT
Funding for LEARNING TO READ is provided by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Hays Foundation.