Burns Night Multisensory Story Fully Resourced Teaching Guide

This fully resourced, step by step multisensory story is set on Burns Night as we join our main character at a traditional Burns Supper.

This teaching resource includes sensory extension activities linked to excerpts of Robert Burns Poems.

This story presents a wonderful opportunity to connect individuals to literature, Scottish culture and the exploration of the rhyme and rhythm in poetry.

A multisensory story is told using sensory stimuli (props).

The story props are low budget, everyday items found around the home, garden, outdoor areas and in the classroom.

This story includes themed, sensory extension activities that link to the EYFS Framework and areas of the KS1 National Curriculum making them the perfect resource for Special Education (aged 3-19) EYFS, Mainstream Primary, Speech & Language and EAL students.

What are the Benefits of Multisensory Storytelling?

1. Storytelling creates a bond between the storyteller and the story explorer enhancing and enriching experiences.

2. Rhyming Multisensory Stories connect the individual to literature, culture and topic in a fun and engaging way.

3. The stories form a base on which to scaffold learning enabling the student to work on personal goals and individual targets.

4. The activities in the stories are designed to promote communication skills: (eye contact, listening, shared attention & language development), self-confidence & well-being (trying out new ideas & skills, practicing self-care & independence and enjoying achievement), self-awareness: (asking for 'help', 'again' and 'more'), present opportunities to explore cause & effect and build anticipation skills, promote physical development: (fine & gross motor skills), build knowledge about the environment & the world around us, to engage in scientific experimentation and mathematical concepts and to develop social & emotional skills: (turn-taking & sharing and teamwork).

5. The sensory stimuli (story props) are a tool for the story explorer to explore and express their likes, dislikes and sensory preferences and to have the opportunity to make choices.

This information can be used to identify motivators or items to calm and individual when anxious, tired or stressed, identify triggers, (some you may wish to avoid, others to work on building tolerance through desensitisation in a safe and therapeutic environment) and used in the writing of care plans to enhance areas daily life.

Burns Night Table of Contents

Introduction

How to tell a Multisensory Story

Story Props Checklist

Burns Night Full Poem

Burns Night Fully Resourced, Multisensory Poem

'Bessie and her Spinning Wheel'

'To a Mouse' Sensory Bin

'Winter' Sensory Activity

'One Night as I did Wander' Sensory Activity

'The Whistle' Sensory Activity

'Lines on the Fall of Fyres' Sensory Activity

'Ye Flowery Banks' Sensory Activity

'The Dusty Miller' Sensory Activity

Burns Supper Invitation

Burns Supper Mud Kitchen (Including Burns Supper Recipes)

Scotland Sensory Flag

Scottish Dancer Craft Activity

Vegetarian Haggis Recipe

Burns Night Sensory Ideas & Inspiration

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