Nursery rhymes and Storytelling

Nursery Rhymes

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Fables and Fairy Tales
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STORYTELLING BOOKS

Children as Story-tellers by Claire Jennings

1. The origin of storytelling

2. The importance of storytelling in our lives

3. Storytelling and children

4. Storytelling in the classroom: reasons

5. Storytelling: different skills

6. Types of stories to tell

7. Visual imagery to gain a sense of setting, character and plot

8. What a storyteller should do before the final telling

9. Learning a story to tell

10. Story aids

11. Creating a storytelling atmosphere/ audience participation

12. Working beyond the classroom

Storytelling with Children by Andrew Wright

1. Advantages of storytelling

2. Reading aloud and telling stories: advantages and disadvantages

3. What we should take into account when choosing a story

4. Learning a story to tell

5. Getting ready to tell a story

6. How to begin telling a story/ voice/ language/ the body/ interruptions

7. Children as storytellers or readers

8. Activities to do before telling the story

9. Activities to do while telling the story

10. Activities to do after the story

11. storytelling across the curriculum

12. storytelling and grammar

Some questions to analyze your storytelling:

1. What were your first steps?

2. What were the feelings towards the story the first time you read it? Did those feelings change? Why?
   

3. How did you get ready to tell the story? Did you need to memorize any important sentences or phrases?

4. When telling the story in the classroom, how did you create the atmosphere? How did this affect the rest of the storytelling?

5. How did you bring the story alive?

6. How did you show the difference among the characters?

7. Did you make your characters laugh, dance, sing…?

8. Did you use body language?

9. How did you get your audience involved?

10. Did you encourage your students’ imagination?

11. Did you pause in any key position in the story? Why?

12. What aids have you used? What other aids could you have used?

13. How did you work/could you have worked with your students before, during and after the storytelling? Did you keep in mind the four macroskills of the language?

14. Were your students satisfied with your storytelling? How did you realize?

15. How could you work with the story across the curriculum?

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