In Handa’s Surprise by Eileen Browne, Handa decides to take a basket of taste sensations to her friend over in the next village, but animals along the way have other plans. Your learners are sure to love this cheeky and fun story set in Kenya as part of the Travelling Tales series from Hope Education.

With Travelling Tales: Handa’s Surprise, a range of resources can be used to explore another culture in a series of lessons based around a quality text. We know that using a multi-sensory approach to storytelling is beneficial to pupils, which is why we have included finger puppets of Handa and the cheeky animals she comes across to help you tell the story in a memorable way. Also in this Travelling Tales sack are Story Talk sequencing cards that can be used by learners to re-tell the story and a traditional African game and instrument can be used to help pupils make links between their learning.

•Explore another culture with your learners using a range of resources centred around a quality text.

•Engage your pupils in their reading learning with a fun and interesting text that covers themes of friendship and animals.

•Have all the resources you need to create a series of inspiring, cross-curricular reading lessons.

What’s in the Travelling Tales sack?

1 x copy of Handa’s Surprise

1 x set of finger puppets

1 x set of Story Talk sequencing cards

1 x traditional African game

1 x traditional African instrument

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.

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