{"id":3525,"date":"2012-04-25T12:19:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T18:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/?p=3525"},"modified":"2012-04-17T23:21:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T05:21:51","slug":"adjusting-storytime-on-the-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/adjusting-storytime-on-the-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjusting Storytime On the Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I talked about how important it is to be flexible and responsive to your audience during storytimes. There were a lot more examples about possible ways to do this than I wanted to squeeze into that (already) long post! So here&#8217;s a list of tricks I&#8217;ve used and read about for adjusting your storytime as you go. This list is SO not complete! What are your tips? <\/p>\n<p>Adjusting &#8220;up&#8221; (your group is older than you planned)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stop and ask open-ended questions as you go through the story<\/li>\n<li>Ask the children to make predictions about what will happen next<\/li>\n<li>After you&#8217;ve read the story once, go back, and have them retell the story to you as you turn the pages<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re singing a song like &#8220;Wheels on the Bus,&#8221; ask the children for ideas for additional verses<\/li>\n<li>Add an action song (&#8220;Shake Your Sillies Out,&#8221; &#8220;Hokey Pokey,&#8221; etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Do a cumulative chant such as &#8220;Button Factory&#8221; or &#8220;My Aunt Came Back.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Tell a familiar story like &#8220;Three Little Bears,&#8221; but mix up the details and let them correct you. (&#8220;Once upon a time there was a family of rhinocerouses that lived in the woods&#8230;&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Adjusting &#8220;down&#8221; (your group is younger than you planned)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Skip one of the books you had planned on reading<\/li>\n<li>Stop and explain vocabulary words, or emphasize plot points<\/li>\n<li>Count only 3 things instead of 5 for a flannel, or 5 things instead of 10<\/li>\n<li>Sing only 2 or 3 verses of songs like &#8220;If You&#8217;re Happy and You Know It&#8221; or &#8220;Spider on the Floor&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Substitute an oldie but goodie such as &#8220;Itsy Bitsy Spider&#8221; or &#8220;Twinkle Twinkle Little Star&#8221; for a less-familiar or a more complicated fingerplay<\/li>\n<li>Or do the new fingerplay, but explain it all first, and then do it 2 or 3 times in a row<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And how about adjusting for bigger or smaller storytimes than you expected? 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