1. Storytelling
Chapter 10
Early Childhood Experiences
in
Language Arts
Presented by Evelia, Caren, Lisa, Sandy,
and Janice

2. Storytelling and Literacy
• Promotion/ why?
• How to increase skills
• Dialogue
• Building blocks/connections
• Story telling can promote a sense of...

3. Telling Stories Without Books
• Intimate conversation
• Child's face expressions and enjoyment
• Books can help as a
visual

4. Storytelling Goals
• Teacher's goals
• Audience behaviors can lead to enjoyment and
pleasure
• Storytelling promotes understanding of what is read
• Mental images & visuals vs. no visuals

5. Using Picture Books For Storytelling
• Motivates interest in books
• Caps for Sale example
• After-storytelling discussion
• Children's narrative abilities and mastering
them
• What Justice and Pence suggest
• Urge children to make their own stories (typed
and later read)

6. Sources For Stories
• Where story ideas can be found
• Confidence building for teachers
• Story telling is part of social
interaction and what is
observed

7. Common Story Selection Criteria
• Age-Level Appropriateness
• Plot
• Style
• Values
• Memorable Characters
• Sensory and Visual Images

8. Types of Stories
• Fable: is a very simple story in which animals are
often present to point out the lesson(s).
• Participation Stories: give children the opportunity to
become involved in the story, with the use of props,
costumes and pictures.
• Repetitive or Chanting Stories: involve the use of
rhyming or singing. This can hold children’s attention
well.

9. Types of Stories (continued)
• Some classic tales include: Goldilocks
and The Three Bears, Little Red Riding
Hood and The Three Little Pigs
• From Aesop’s Fables: The Lion and The
Mouse, The Hare and The Tortoise and
The Ant and The Grasshopper
• Traditional Stories: Ugly Duckling, Tikki
Tikki Tembo and the Tale of Peter
Rabbit

10. Get Excited!
• The best way to get children’s attention is to
be excited about something!
• Know the story! The better you know the story,
the easier it will be told.
• Practice, practice, practice!

11. Some Storytelling Techniques
• Use a clear, firm, non mechanical voice
• Practice before a mirror or with other
teachers
• Maintain eye contact and use hand
gestures
• Involve the children
• Slow down when you are reading

12. Storytelling Techniques continued
• Use dramatic pauses and move your body with
the story
• Speak confidentially, bringing the characters to
life
• Use voice pitch to your advantage
• Enjoy yourself!

13. Created Stories
• Can be created by either teachers or children
• Teachers need to consider both audience and
timing issues
• Child-created stories promote literacy and a
sense of accomplishment
• Do not correct children's stories, it is a process

14. Comprehension
• After a story, make sure children
understand what happened
• Talk about it, make a visual
graph, think up different endings
• Make a story map and ask lots
of questions

15. Story Sequence Cards
• Visual aids
• Children can learn to
"picture read"
• Great for pre-reading skills

16. Successful Dictation
Statements that help children start dictating stories:
• Ask what is the story you would like to tell me? Tell
them you will write down their words of the story.
• Help guide a child toward developing the sequence of a
story, story's beginning and end.
• Encourage the child's use of dialogue or the child's
development of descriptive language.

17. Early Writing Skills and Teacher
Dictation
• Help the child articulate what they are trying to
communicate.
• Talk about what the child has already contributed
after dictation starts.
• Compliment what features you can; descriptive
word use for clarity, and interest, suggest visuals
such as a drawing to add to their story.

18. Reaching Reluctant Storytellers and
Children with Limited English
• Suggest using pantomimes.
Pantomimes can introduce and
enhance the world of storytelling.
• Ask parents and grandparents to
help with telling story's. this way
the child maybe more at ease of
telling their own story.