Storytelling has several advantages for children's development including helping them learn to listen for the main idea, acquire new vocabulary through contextual repetition, and develop literary skills. Storytelling also fosters communication between the storyteller and listeners, keeps children motivated through emotional engagement, and stimulates children's imaginations.

1. ADVANTAGES OF
STORYTELLING

2. THE DEVELOPMENT OF LISTENING SKILLS
 to get the main idea or plot without necessarily
understanding everything.

3. THE ACQUISITION OF NEW VOCABULARY
 most of the new language in stories is perfectly
contextualized, repeated more than once and
sometimes they are accompanied by pictures.

4. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILD´S LITERARY
COMPETENCE
 the child´s ability to understand and enjoy literature
which involves skills acquired through extensive
reading over his life.

5. THE COMMUNICATIVE EXCHANGE INVOLVED IN
STORIES
 the level of interaction between the storyteller and
the audience and between the individual listeners.
For example, when the storyteller asks the listeners
to guess about what would happen next in the
story.

6. MOTIVATION
 if the story is interesting and told in an appealing
way, children will normally pay attention through to
the end. Motivation has to do with emotions, which
are considered crucial in all learning processes.

7. STIMULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE
IMAGINATION
 the nature of the story, the recreating of scenes and
characters and the ideas in the story encourage the
child´s creativity.