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Acquire German through Listening and Reading. Based on Stephen Krashen's Input Hypothesis and taught through Beniko Mason's Story Listening methodology.

50 before winter break

8/12/2019

8 Comments

 
For 4 months now, from August 23rd to December 17th, I have been telling stories to my 4th grade beginners every class (3x a week in a regular week). In 43 classes I have told 50 stories. Stories from countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, France, the US, Canada, China, Italy, Norway, India and Japan; including funny stories, scary stories, folk tales, fables, legends, sagas and more. And here I am sharing the first 50 stories with you with German and English titles and text source if possible. All 50 can be watched here or on my YouTube channel.

Often times I do not tell the story I had planned the next class and make a change last minute. I wanted to tell "Eine Puppe zu Weihnachten" before Christmas, but then some students said, no more sad stories and I decided to skip this one. So for the last of the 50 I was unsure what I wanted to tell and the inspiration came the day before, when we went to a story teller, who told "Die drei Federn". I adapted it and told it today and here we are 50 stories and 1116 minutes in.

  1. In einem dunklen, dunklen Zimmer | In a Dark Dark Room
  2. Suppenkasper | Soup Casper
  3. Der kleine Frosch mit dem großen Mund | The Little Frog with the Big Mouth
  4. Die Zähne | The Teeth
  5. Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt | The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  6. Die Ente und der Wolf | The Hen and the Wolf
  7. Mmh Plätzchen | Mmm Cookies
  8. Die drei kleinen Schweinchen | The Three Little Pigs
  9. Ein Geräusch in der Nacht | 50 Below Zero
  10. Danielas Zopf | Stephanie's Ponytail
  11. Das grüne Halsband | The Green Ribbon
  12. Der Daumenlutscher | The Thumbsucker
  13. Der Pinguin | Penguin
  14. Die Frösche und der Regenbogen | The Frog's at Rainbow's End
  15. Vom dicken, fetten Pfannkuchen | The Big, Fat Pancake
  16. Der Punkt | The Dot
  17. Tikki Tikki Tembo | Tikki Tikki Tembo
  18. Hans Guck-in-die-Luft | The History of Hans Stare-in-the-Air
  19. Das kleine Blau und das kleine Gelb | The Little Blue and the Little Yellow
  20. Vom kleinen Maulwurf
  21. Die traurige Geschichte vom Feuerzeug | The Sad Tale of the Match-Box
  22. Katharina | Cattarinetta
  23. König Löwe und der Käfer | King Lion and the Beetle
  24. Matschpfütze | Mud Puddle
  25. Wie man ein Monster Strickt | How to Knit a Monster
  26. Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten | The Town Musicians of Bremen
  27. König Midas | King Midas
  28. Der Klassenclown | The Class Clown
  29. Der süße Brei | The Sweet Porridge
  30. Der Junge, der Katzen malte | The Boy Who Drew Cats
  31. Die kleine alte Frau, die vor nichts angst hatte | The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything
  32. Boo | Boo
  33. Warte bis Martin nach Hause kommt | Wait till Martin Comes Home
  34. Moiras Geburtstag | Moira's Birthday
  35. Die drei Ziegen | The Three Billy Goats Gruff
  36. St. Martin | Saint Martin
  37. Zilly, die Zauberin | Winnie the Witch
  38. Frau Holle | Mother Hulda
  39. Frau Trude | Frau Trude
  40. Der haarige Zeh | The Hairy Toe
  41. Rauf, rauf, runter | Up, Up, Down
  42. Georg und der Drache | George and the Dragon
  43. Schneeballschlacht | Snowballs
  44. Wie die Sterne in den Apfel kamen | The Story of How the Apples Got Stars Within
  45. St. Nikolaus | Saint Nikolas
  46. Das Mädchen mit den Streichhölzern | The Matchstick Girl
  47. Tomte Tummetott | Tomte Tummetott
  48. Sterntaler | Star Money
  49. Die gesprächige Schildkröte | The Talkative Tortoise
  50. Die drei Federn | The Three Feathers

I will update the links as I am posting the German versions on the Story Reading page.
8 Comments
Beniko Mason link
16/12/2019 07:06:45

Danke sehr fur die 50 Geschichte!!

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welovedeutsch
17/12/2019 00:32:28

Bitte sehr! :)

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Kline
16/12/2019 07:42:34

Wonderful!

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Kath
19/12/2019 01:48:33

Thank you so much for sharing these wonderful stories. I am thoroughly enjoying viewing your videos and am curious to know what else you do in your lessons when you are not telling stories. How long are your lessons...? I don't speak German but am really enjoying being a student as I watch your videos. Thank you again! Such a wonderful resource!

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welovedeutsch link
3/1/2020 23:28:28

Hi Kath,
Thank you so much for the wonderful feedback. My lessons are 60 minutes long, though effectively I don't have more than 50 minutes with kids changing classrooms, etc. (my students come from three different 4th grade classes). The bulk of the class (30-40min) is one or two stories and the remainder of the time is used for asking them how they are, maybe doing some movement (TPR or other things) and reading. That's it. :) Story Listening is a method and as such is used as the main instrument of delivering input. Reading is the other part that I am introducing slowly as my students were total beginners in August. Hope this is helpful! Thanks for watching my videos and the feedback. Best, Kathrin

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Kath
4/1/2020 11:55:49

Thank you for getting back to me. I appreciate this extra insight into your teaching context, love your storytelling style and am looking forward to seeing the further progress that you and your students make this year. Best wishes for 2020!

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Adele
6/11/2022 09:03:27

I like the way you read these stories, but I've read some of them, and they have rather sad endings. I wouldn't read stories with sad endings to my class. Just my personal choice, though.

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Welovedeutsch link
6/11/2022 09:28:00

Hi Adele, thank you for your feedback. I find that the kids like all kinds of stories and so do I. For Story Listening it is important to make sure the input is comprehensible and therefore that's my main requirement when choosing stories. It is a personal preference though what kinds of stories you like to tell. It is also always possible to change the ending. :)

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