Storytelling is an ancient art that can be used effectively in education. It encourages creative expression and communication skills in students. Stories impart meaning and values while stimulating the imagination without real experiences. Educators have long recognized storytelling's academic and emotional benefits for students. It grabs their attention through voice, movement and dramatization. Stories expose children to rich vocabulary and concepts in an engaging way. They allow children to make sense of the world through symbolic journeys. Effective storytelling considers elements like characters, plot structure, tension and resolution to craft engaging narratives. It is a powerful tool when used strategically in early education.

1. STORY TELLING
TEACHING THROUGH

2. What is storytelling?
Storytelling is the social and cultural activity of sharing stories, often
with improvisation, theatrics, or embellishment. Stories or narratives
have been shared in every culture as means of entertainment, education,
cultural Preservation and instilling moral values.

3. Why Storytelling?
• Educators have long known that the arts can contribute to student academic
success and emotional well being. The ancient art of storytelling is especially
well-suited for student exploration. No special equipment beyond the
imagination and the power of listening and speaking is needed to create
artistic images.
• As a learning tool, storytelling can encourage students to explore their
unique expressiveness and can heighten a student's ability to communicate
thoughts and feelings in an articulate, lucid manner.

4. Storytelling
It is the art of using language, vocalization, physical
movement and gestures to reveal the elements and images of a story to a
specific, live audience.

5. It is said that……
“The art of bringing a story to life is, through the inflection in one’s voice,
rhythm, facial expressions, hands and body movements”.

6. By Garvie 1990…
“Stories are powerful means of language teaching. A skillful teacher can use
story to develop “ more efficient listening, more fluent speaking and the ability
to read and write easily and completely”

7. THE HIDDEN POWER OF STORY
“Science, by its own definition doesn’t give us meaning. It just provides us with
facts. Our lives gain meaning only when we tell our story”. -DAVID STEINDL-RAST

8. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS’
WEBINAR CATCH-UP
• Herbert Puchta ( September 4,
2015- webinar recording, young
learners, Cambridge University
press) discusses the importance of
story in pre-school children.
According to Dr. Herbert,
• stories are so essential to young
learners.
• There are numerous reasons to be
used storytelling strategic
teaching, specially in pre-school.

9. Why stories are Important.
Dr. Herbert says…
• It helps…,
 Grab children’s attention.
 Children encounter words.
 Take children on a journey.
 Children make the most of language.
 Stimulate intense experience without actually having lived through them. e.g
jungle, sea world or any accident etc.
 Survive and make sense of the real world.
 Children in a social senses.

10. Other benefits:
(Making connection)
• Stories are lexically dense.
• Stories are powerful source of imagination.
• Stories can lead the children towards creative thinking then writing.
• Stories can make your class more communicative.
• Stories can be more helpful make a child confident.
• Stories can introduce cultural activities.
• Stories build moral values in an interesting way.
• Stories enhance public speaking skills.
• Stories reduce stage fear.

11. MAKING STORIES EXCITING AND FUN
• Add the tools of the teller:
• Voice
• Body
• Face
• Imagination
• Enthusiasm/Spirit (Cooperation with the audience!)

12. Elements of story

13. The “plot” of a great story includes:
• A starting point, quickly setting up the story.
• An interesting dilemma or conflict.
• The journey to resolve the conflict.
• Climax.
• Resolution.
• The lesson learned.

14. Easy steps to create great storytelling
(Create a thirst or curiosity)
 Create characters
 Make your storytelling “big” or “small”
 Have fully control on your facial expressions
 Talk with your hands
 Create a story telling atmosphere
 Win the audience with the first line
 Tell the story with FEELING!
 Involve the audience in the story!!!!
 Slow down for the ending

15. HOW TO TELL STORIES
MASTERING STORYTELLING FUNDAMENTALS:
• Engage your audience.
• Build the scene.
• Build tension and release tension.
• Focus on what’s important.
• Keep the flow logical.
• Make it feel conclusive.

16. Can you please make a story?

17. Activities related to stories
MASTERING STORYTELLING FUNDAMENTALS:
• You can tell stories while children draw it.
• Boost-up artistic abilities.
• Prompt questions after exact you have told story.
• imperative sentences
Suggested stories:
• Story of zero.
• ALLAH is omnipresent.

18. • "This evocative form of folklore sometimes
stands in the stead of a wisdom tale. Thought-
provoking proverbs can suggest a larger
scenario. I invite readers to look at proverbs
creatively and imagine the story the proverb
suggests." -Heather Forest

19. Suggested stories. (Proverbs)
With or without plot
• He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns. (English)
• Better to be a free bird than a captive King. (Danish)
• A book gives knowledge, but it is life that gives understanding.
(Hebrew)
• Better bread with water than cake with trouble. (Russian)
• The heaviest burden is an empty pocket. (Yiddish)
• A candle lights others but consumes itself. (English)

20. Short stories list.
With or without plot
• One finger cannot lift a pebble. (Iranian)
• When elephants battle, the ants perish. (Cambodian)
• If you chase two hares, you will not catch either. (Russian)
• One dog barks because it sees something; a hundred dogs bark because they
heard the first dog bark. (Chinese)
• The sieve says to the needle: You have a hole in your tail. (Pakistan)
• Talk does not cook rice. (Chinese)
• After the rain, there is no need for an umbrella. (Bulgaria)
• You can't chew with somebody else's teeth. (Yiddish)
• Every kind of animal can be tamed, but not the tongue of man. (Philippine)

21. Short stories list
With or without plot
• It takes a village to raise a child. (Africa)
• It is one thing to cackle and another to lay an egg. (Ecuador)
• To hide one lie, a thousand lies are needed. (India)
• Step by step one ascends the staircase. (Turkey)
• Anger is a bad adviser. (Hungary)
• Eyes can see everything except themselves. (Serbo-Croatian)
• Haste makes waste. (English)

22. References
• http://www.eldrbarry.net/clas/ecem/cstm.pdf
• http://www.eldrbarry.net/roos/books/hatrsbks.htm
• http://www.storyarts.org/classroom/index.html
• http://www.storyarts.org/lessonplans/lessonideas/index.html#auto
• http://www.storyarts.org/lessonplans/lessonideas/index.html#picture
• http://www.slideshare.net/childrensministry/secrets-to-successful-storytelling

23. JAZAKALLAH
Hira Foundation School