What is storytelling?
Storytelling is the interactive art of
using words and actions to reveal the elements and images of a story while
encouraging the listener’s imagination. (National Storytelling Network. 2019)
Storytelling is often described as an ‘art’ not a skill or a technique. It is a
way that you can use your imagination and put yourself in a different place. Storytelling
is beneficial for children because it gives them the opportunity to enhance creativity,
curiosity and imagination. Stories create magic and a sense of wonder at the
world. British council.
What are the benefits of storytelling?
Children use storytelling to communicate
with each other, build relationships and share memories. It is beneficial for holistic development and
through storytelling children are encouraged to listen to others, whether it be
the storyteller or others listening to the story. They learn to be more patient
and to let others speak; they begin to understand that others may not interpret
things in the same way they do. Kumon, 2019.
How is it used in the primary school?
Story telling is used everyday in the
primary school through a variety of different ways. Mainly in foundation phase,
storytelling is often a daily occurrence where the class teacher will take time
out of the day to sit and read a story. This is beneficial to children as it
gives them time to feel relaxed while they concentrate on the practitioner whilst
listening to the story. Storytelling is engaging for children and important for
their development, when listening to stories children pick up on vocabulary and
increase children's development in writing.
What can a practitioner do for a successful
storytelling experience?
As a classroom teacher, you can encourage your
children to read outside of the school environment sending them home with guided
reading tasks. Promoting reading through the classroom ‘reading corner’ ensuring
children have an environment that they can go to either quietly or with friends
where they can read comfortably and relax. The teacher can also encourage
active participation when reading a class book, asking pupils questions based
on the story or if they’d like to help read.
How can the practitioner engage the
classroom when telling a story?
You can:
-
Vary the way you speak by changing the volume,
pitch and tempo of your voice. make your body and face respond to the tale
-
Have a clear focus.
-
Maintain eye contact with the audience
-
Make the audience believe you
-
Use different, exaggerated character
voices
-
Use silence and pauses to add dramatic
effect
What is storytelling?
Storytelling is the interactive art of
using words and actions to reveal the elements and images of a story while
encouraging the listener’s imagination. (National Storytelling Network. 2019)
Storytelling is often described as an ‘art’ not a skill or a technique. It is a
way that you can use your imagination and put yourself in a different place. Storytelling
is beneficial for children because it gives them the opportunity to enhance creativity,
curiosity and imagination. Stories create magic and a sense of wonder at the
world. British council.
What are the benefits of storytelling?
Children use storytelling to communicate
with each other, build relationships and share memories. It is beneficial for holistic development and
through storytelling children are encouraged to listen to others, whether it be
the storyteller or others listening to the story. They learn to be more patient
and to let others speak; they begin to understand that others may not interpret
things in the same way they do. Kumon, 2019.
How is it used in the primary school?
Story telling is used everyday in the
primary school through a variety of different ways. Mainly in foundation phase,
storytelling is often a daily occurrence where the class teacher will take time
out of the day to sit and read a story. This is beneficial to children as it
gives them time to feel relaxed while they concentrate on the practitioner whilst
listening to the story. Storytelling is engaging for children and important for
their development, when listening to stories children pick up on vocabulary and
increase children's development in writing.
What can a practitioner do for a successful
storytelling experience?
As a classroom teacher, you can encourage your
children to read outside of the school environment sending them home with guided
reading tasks. Promoting reading through the classroom ‘reading corner’ ensuring
children have an environment that they can go to either quietly or with friends
where they can read comfortably and relax. The teacher can also encourage
active participation when reading a class book, asking pupils questions based
on the story or if they’d like to help read.
How can the practitioner engage the
classroom when telling a story?
You can:
- - Vary the way you speak by changing the volume,
pitch and tempo of your voice.
- - Have a clear focus.
- - Maintain eye contact with the audience
- - Make the audience believe you
- - Use different, exaggerated character
voices
- - Use silence and pauses to add dramatic
effect
References:
- * National Storytelling Network.(2019)
Online at: https://storynet.org/what-is-storytelling/ Accessed [6/2/19]
