Looking for a one-stop shop of storytelling resources? The Travelling Tales series from Hope Education: What the Ladybird Heard is a great bank of cross-curricular resources that can be used to plan a series of lessons centred around a quality text. What more could you want?

What the Ladybird Heard comes from the masterful penmanship of Julia Donaldson and tells the tale of a small ladybird who overhears the cunning plan of robbers Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len. The ladybird and all her farmyard friends get to work to foil the robbers’ plans to steal a prize cow, teaching pupils the importance of listening and the significance of even the smallest and seemingly insignificant individual.

This Travelling Tales story sack includes an audio book CD of the story to help save your voice! There are also finger puppets of the animals found on the farm and a printed story mat to help pupils re-tell the story in a memorable way. Other cross-curricular resources to help engage reluctant readers in their reading include a board game and a non-fiction book.

•Find inspiration and plan a series of effective storytelling lessons using the Teacher Guide included in every Travelling Tales sack.

•Help your pupils learn important storytelling skills and make links between what they are reading and other activities and subjects using the cross-curricular resources included.

•Excite your pupils about reading with the fantastically funny story of What the Ladybird Heard.

What’s in the Travelling Tales sack?

1 x copy of What the Ladybird Heard with audio book CD

1 x set of animal finger puppets

1 x printed mat of a farm

1 x non-fiction book

1 x Listening Lotto game

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