Storytelling

Telling stories has been part of most cultures at all times. The story used to be oral, passing from storyteller to storyteller, from time to time and from place to place. Each storyteller brings something of himself in to the story. Children that are good storytellers benefit from this as they grow older. They are better listeners, and they learn about the structure in a story. As a listener, the child learns new words and builds a larger and more varied vocabulary, and as a storyteller, the child tries out new words and sentences. Children who like to tell a story, understand why they need to learn to write. Letters and words can express all the ideas and images they have inside themselves, they have something they are eager to tell; and they know that if they write their stories down, they can be read over and over again. In this workshop, we will work with different ways to motivate children for telling their own stories.