Sociogram Case Study

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Session 1: Sociogram
Story: Wolstencroft the Bear
Skill: Noting Details of the Selection Read
Ref: (http://www.childrenstoriesonline.com)
Author: Karen Lewis

Sociogram – is a visual representation of relationships among characters in a literary text. Students can make use of pictures, symbols, shapes, colors and line styles to illustrate these relationships.
Activities:
After reading the story, the pupils did the following activities.
1. Place the central character at the center of the diagram.
2. Let the physical distance between characters reflect the perceived psychological distance between the characters.
3. Let the size/ shape/ symbol of a character metamorphic ally represent each personality, importance one’s power or lack of, etc. …show more content…

The mother will say “you’re welcome to my family”, but neither will confirm nor deny if their classmates belong to that family.
5. When time’s up, go around the room and check if all are in the correct family.
6. Give the class the chance to monitor and decide if they’re in the correct family.
Session 6: Reading Together
Story: Any Story They Want to Read
Skill: Changing the Statement into Question using Do,Does and Did
Ref: Any Story book
Activity:
Divide the participants into reading groups. Divide them according to what they like to read. If the pupil don’t know or aren’t sure what they like to read, you can just assign them to reading categories and work from them. Some categories that might work are: fairytales, adventure stories, nature stories, and poetry and noun fiction.
Session 7: Dress the Character Game
Story: What Slowed the Sloth?
Skill: Sequencing Events
Ref: (http://www.freechildrenstories.com)
Author: Daniel Errico
Activity:
This activity greatly helped pupils strengthen skills in characterization in an artistic and cooperative way:
1. Give them materials to dress up the member of their group as a character from one book read earlier. To ensure a variety of characters and to avoid replication, once a group decides on a book, no one can choose that

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