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by Paul Makepeace

May 30, 2012 Reading 2330 Views

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 The story book is almost as old as Guttenberg's printing press and the telling of stories is an ancient pursuit. Though, we live in a digital age the story is still an integral of part of teaching as ever and really profits children in a range of important ways.

The story itself is often seen as a treat and is usually read before a break period, or the end of the day. However, the story is a very significant part of literacy and creates a number of important things for children to grasp.

Stories are a great way to foster curiosity and so is often the subject of intense focus from children - sometimes story time is the only quiet period of the day. This attention giving makes it one of the most important for making an impression on children.

Aids Understanding

Directly, storytelling allows children to grasp new situations and can be used to quell fears, teach and also to show apt behaviour in a certain situation. It is as well a great way to give a child a self of self and allow them to relate their own experiences to the one being read out. This of course really aids personal development and can be a great way to garner emotional understanding.

Using story time as an aid for role play can also really be of profit to children in a number of ways. Whether using puppets or partaking in role-plays children learn a number of important values, and storytelling is often at the fore of such activities.

Role Play

Role play is pivotal for building up a sense of confidence and allowing children to express themselves. Children can use role play, or puppet play to act out certain hypothetical situations. This is a great way to improve one-on-one communication and cooperation between children and also allows them to be creative on an individual and furthermore cooperative level.

As stories are central to literacy and essentially part of literature, children gain an appreciation for the arts from stories. This can lead them wishing to read in their own time, which of course has numerous benefits for children. Stories with pictures also provide children with the tools for an admiration of art itself.

Stories are cross curricular and can be used in a number of other subjects, such as art, or in solving moral conundrums among others. Their central place in teaching is one that no development will ever probably move.

Writing about children's story telling resources, Martyn aims to provide readers with informative knowledge into his experiences and knowledge gained within this area and offers readers the chance to view a website he has experienced positively. View children's story telling resources today.


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