Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- About the author -- Introduction -- Chapter one: The theory -- How the programme works -- Who can use this programme? -- Links to national curriculum -- Evidence -- Language and learning techniques for running a session -- The drama part -- The story square -- Structure of sessions -- Evaluation and assessment -- Chapter two: The practice -- Warm ups -- The Very Hungry Caterpillar -- The Rainbow Fish -- Room on the Broom -- The Shopping Basket -- Owl Babies -- The Frog Prince -- The Three Billy Goats Gruff -- Cleversticks -- The Gingerbread Man -- Funnybones -- Whatever Next -- Handa's Surprise -- The Ugly Duckling -- Rosie's Hat -- Chapter three: Year 2 -- The Owl and the Pussycat -- Hairy Maclary -- Dogger -- The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark -- Avocado Baby -- Jack and the Beanstalk -- Child's own story -- Example session around a child's story -- Chapter four: Key Stage 2 -- George's Marvellous Medicine -- Aesop's Fables -- Where The Wild Things Are -- Topic: the Romans -- Topic: Ancient Egypt -- The story of Cleopatra -- Appendix A: Evaluations -- Appendix B: Evaluation examples -- Appendix C: Pre- and post-assessment forms -- Appendix D: Punctuation symbols -- Appendix E: Story component cards -- Bibliography -- Story references