The adorable story of the three Owl Babies is sure to resonate with anyone who has ever felt afraid when their parent has left them behind. This Travelling Tales sack includes the wonderful Owl Babies by Martin Waddell, a tale that follows the worry of three baby owls who wake up to find their mother not there. But the three baby owls help each other through their worry by comforting each other and waiting for the inevitable return of their mother.
This Travelling Tales story sack is filled with resources to help the storytelling process. Puppets of the owl family can be used as a multi-sensory approach to tell the story. A non-fiction book about owls and Story Talk picture cards can be used for cross-curricular lessons based on the central quality text.
- Practise storytelling with your pupils with the lovable Owl Babies and use a multi-sensory approach using owl puppets and Story Talk cards.
- Ignite your pupils’ love of reading with engaging resources centred around a quality text with beautiful illustrations and language to stretch and challenge.
- Teach cross-curricular storytelling lessons, helping pupils to make links between subjects.
What’s in the Travelling Tales sack?
1 x copy of Owl Babies
4 x puppets of the main characters**
1 x set of Story Talk sequencing cards
1 x story book**
1 x non-fiction book about owls**
1 x Teacher Guide**
Contents may vary from description due to availability
**Products are not affiliated with, or approved by, Martin Waddell or Walker Books Ltd.
- Quality texts from well known authors, great for sharing with children; the patterned language promotes choral reading and retelling, naturally encouraging audience participation!
- Each bag provides a window into a new world where the children can learn new ideas and information through engaging and exciting stories
- Good quality materials support the texts, allowing children to create their own play with the characters, further developing vocabulary and language
- Each bag contains a related non-fiction text, developing the idea of the story with further information
- The games link to the text and provide the opportunity to work collaboratively and take turns, while extending and developing the story
- Provide opportunities for children to express views about events or characters in a story and to answer questions about what happened.
- Provide wide range of media and materials to share thoughts, ideas, and feelings.
- After listening to stories, children can express views about events or characters in the story and answer questions about why things happened.
- Expose children to a wide range of reading material with lots of opportunities to engage with books that fire their imagination and interest.
- Pupils are given the opportunity to explain their understanding of books whilst developing comprehension skills as well as increasing vocabulary.
- Resources allow children to adopt, create, and sustain roles of characters in the stories.
- Opportunities for improvisation as well as script drama are provided.
- Many opportunities for discussion of stories and books with the teacher including non-fiction texts.