The Three Little Pigs

Before the story, the storyteller introduces the characters and the various components of the program: the puppets, the scenery, the music and the verbal text. In this way, the children are alerted to various visual and aural elements in the program and encouraged to anticipate features and events. (She also asks children to guess which story she is about to tell, therefore teachers are asked not to reveal the title!.) The original text of the story has been retained so that the narrative structure and language patterns are unaltered. The opportunity for listening to a story is therefore not diminished through adaptation to the television medium.