Literacy Workshops for “Whispering Smith” and “The Highwayman”

Whispering Smith is an interactive puppet show where suggestions from the audience drive the action. After the show a puppet comes out who has missed the story- can the audience tell him what happened?

The follow-up workshop involves Talk For Writing techniques where the children are invited to participate in re-telling the story in various ways. This story telling is done through shadow puppets and other visual aids, through dressing up, drama and action, role-playing and character hot-seating. The children also get the chance to draw pictures of the characters and the story from their imaginations.

Our literacy workshops are an introduction to imitation, innovation and invention as well as a wonderfully memorable aid to speaking and listening skills.

Literacy workshops are also available alongside our shadow puppet show “The
Highwayman” based on the poem by Alfred Noyes, a Year 6 text.