Classroom Storytelling is
inexpensive, flexible, durable, and fun. With a few high quality resources,
teachers can learn to tell stories and guidestudents in
telling their own stories. Storytelling activities include acting out stories,
drawing, writing, reading Children respond
enthusiastically to storytelling
and maintain a high level of interest in the stories over time. Simply
developing a few classroom stories the students
enjoy hearing frequently brings the class together with images, learning, and laughter.
Listening to Folk StoriesTalking about Illustrating Favorite Stories
Illustration
Making Story Boards and Telling
Circle Story Board
The following is an example of a storytelling unit
with 2nd graders. To begin, I told about the remarkable Hand Fish that long ago
filled Tennessee rivers. Then, students drew their own illustrations of how they
imaged a Hand Fish would look. Next, students told their own version of a Hand
Fish adventure. The culmination of the unit was a PowerPoint presentation of the
children's illustrations with Schubert's Trout Quintet providing background
music. For fun, listen to the quintet on the YouTube video below as you look at
the children's art.
Illustration
Circle Story Board
