Sensory stories

As with anything in schools, there are a number of planned learning intentions or outcomes that link with sensory stories.

Make sensory bags to go along with one of our favorite storybooks, Going on a Bear Hunt!

Have you heard of multi-sensory storytelling? It's a fun way to support engagement and interactions with the story you're reading, as well as vocabulary development! "The cross-study results are clear: a greater number of sensory experiences support early lexical acquisition and recognition" (Seidl et al., 2023).

Sensory Friendly storytimes can be daunting to plan, but this lesson plan gives you everything you need to get started!

A sensory story is a narrative, book or poem that serves to activate each of the senses to encourage engagement in a range of learning situations. Sensory stories are designed to build skills ranging from engagement to knowledge recall, memory, communication, vocabulary development, social skills, literacy, movement and so on. Each has a different purpose. This may be to calm, to share experiences, purely to encourage joint attention or interaction. There are many ways to link a sensory…

Hands-on retelling of the classic Little Red Hen story! What a great, sensory filled way to bring a classic story to life with preschool and kindergarten kids! #booksandcrafts

Just wanted to send a big thank you for the sensory storytime this morning! It was terrific! … My four-year old LOVED it and I think I’m even more excited than he is as the event stirred up a lot of great ideas for activities I can do with my kids at home! Thank you thank you!!! This wonderful feedback was given to me by a grateful mom after I did my first Sensory Storytime for children with autism and other developmental disabilities. She and her son have attended every sensory storytime…

'How to Catch an Elf' is one of the most fun Christmas picture books that we have. And my kiddos just LOVE when we read it. However, in our class, we like to read a little differently. We love to turn our stories into sensory stories! So, what are sensory stories? I suppose they're different

A Little Red Hen activity that focuses on sensory play to help children retell the story. A fun, hands-on way for children to explore literacy concepts.