we are developing our system. At the moment we have these books out more regularly and revisit them as often as we can. Normally we just read it the first couple of times and then we start to 'mess around' with it! so we might wait for the children to finish the line....or whilst retelling it make deliberate mistakes (oh they SO love correcting me!) we might use spoons or puppets to retell it without a text, use story stones for children to get involved, act it out, change the endings, start to weave in other stories, put it in the environment with props to support independent 'reading' . The hungry caterpillar is a favourite for creating our own version (which we have written down at times) so changing what he eats ,,,,to what happens next and what he changes in to ! prediction of endings and imagination needed to stray from what they know!
We have 2 story times a day and 1-1 stories too. we use small groups 2 a week to support those who are struggling or need extension ....sometimes inside, sometimes outside. So it isn't the same story in the same place with the same words. !! works really well for EAL and SEND students who need to learn vocab and also for those who can extend their ideas too. I thought it might be boring.....but really not if you mix it up a bit!