Storytelling can be an interesting tool very useful in the classroom.
It is helpful to begin the class with the teacher playing the role of storyteller or maybe by inviting a proffesional storyteller into the classroom, due to the fact that it will be very motivating to the students.
Students usually love stories, and teachers should take advantage of this fact to teach the new language. Teachers should use some strategies to facilitate the understanding and oof the students (games, gestures, redundancy, pictures...)
When learners are listening the stories, they are developing listening skills and vocabulary, increasing concentration, developing imagination and, also, they are more motivated to read. If the learners are telling the stories, we are improving the oral language skills, the expression, the motivation to create new stories, etc.
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Integrate storytelling into other subjects
While language arts and the creative arts are obvious areas, stories can help us to understand other cultures and other times. They can easily be integrated into history or geography. If we chose the stories carefully, they can be integrated even with maths or science. We have to take into account that this activity develops the social competence in our students and, if we chose an interesting topic and develop the activity in an appropriate way, we will be able to develop a lot of competences.
But, it is when the learners become the storytellers that storytelling makes a great contribution to the classroom.
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