Circular Stories

A circular story is a story that starts off with one particular event or object, and circles around with objects that relate to each other to end up with the same event or object that originally started the story. The objects/events must relate directly to each other but can go far off from the original object/event.

Circular stories can be used in the classroom to teach students many things, from listening to sequencing and just overall better understanding. Having the students interact with the story and participate in activities that relate to the events in the story will help them get a better understanding of it. By having the students read or perhaps just listen to the story, and have them put the events in the order that they occurred in the story, could help to expand the students' memories and teaches them to learn to pay attention.

Reading can be made fun in many ways. Teachers can have the students make drawings, or perform skits, or create their own stories that go along with the same story or type of story. Also, the teachers could bring in props from the story, or ones that relate to the story, in to help give a visual understanding to the students. Plus, it excites the students to get to hold the objects or see them, engaging them deeper into the story.