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Year 2 The Lesson Begin by discussing ideas about storytelling, why they are used and what makes a good story. Why did Jesus tell stories and why were they important? Talk about the meanings and messages contained so pupils begin to understand what a parable is. (Suitable stories might be The lost sheep and coin (Luke 15), The parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector (Luke 18), The houses on rock and sand (Luke 6) or The mustard seed (Luke 13). Now move on to Big Books and how they combine text and illustrations. Explain to the children that, working in small groups, they need to produce a ‘Big Book’ of a story told by Jesus that could be used by Year 1 pupils. Divide the class into groups, and allocate specific tasks such as writers, illustrators, editors etc., and read their selected story. With examples of Big Books to hand, ask pupils to discuss the how much text there is to a page and how the illustration fits. They then need to plan how to re-tell their story: the key characters, the sequence of events and the main points of the story. They will need to decide on the text for each page of their Big Book and on the illustrations that will be required, using a storyboard format as support. When the storyboard is agreed, ask them to begin producing the text. With a word processor, this can be edited and re-drafted. How big does the font need to be? Which one looks most readable? Meanwhile, other children can work on the illustrations, either with painting materials or graphics software. Finally, bring the word-processed text and the illustrations together in a large Big Book. The finished results can now be presented to the Year 1 children, to be read in a Literacy hour, by the teacher or the authors themselves.
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