Re-tell one of the most well-known Bible stories using a range of cross-curricular resources to engage and excite your young readers. The Travelling Tales: Noah’s Ark resource provides inspiration and resources for planning a series of lessons centred around a quality text.

The Rob Lloyd Jones re-telling of Noah’s Ark includes beautiful and vivid illustrations making for a memorable telling of this popular Bible story about Noah. Noah is warned by God that a great flood will cover the earth. God gives Noah the responsibility of saving the animals and Noah builds an ark and guides the animals onboard two by two.

This Travelling Tales story sack includes a soft toy ark and several animals which can be used by you or your learners to re-tell the story in a memorable way. A series of cross-curricular lessons are also resourced using the bank of resources provided by Travelling Tales, with the inclusion of a non-fiction book, a game and sing-along CD.

•Get your children excited for reading with engaging games and fun sing-alongs.

•Help your learners’ storytelling skills with resources to help re-tell Noah’s Ark in a memorable and stimulating way.

•Plan a series of lessons centred around a quality text using the Teacher Guide for inspiration and activity ideas.

What’s in the Travelling Tales sack?

1 x copy of Noah’s Ark

1 x set of soft toys from the story

1 x sing-along CD

1 x Two by two game

1 x non-fiction book about animals

1 x Teacher Guide

Contents may vary from description.

Reasons to Love:

•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

Learning Outcomes:

EYFS

Communication and Language and Understanding

•After listening to stories, children can express views about events or characters in the story and answer questions about why things happened.

Expressive arts and design

•This involves supporting children to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials. It involves providing children with opportunities and encouragement for sharing their thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of activities including role-play.

ELG 17 Being imaginative:

•Children use what they have learnt about media and materials in original ways, thinking about uses and purposes

•They represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through