The educational benefits of storytelling 29 Articles

by Carolyn Tytler

The Grade One children have just come in from afternoon recess. It's a warm afternoon in late Spring and they have been engaged in an energetic game of Touch Tag. They're hot, sweaty and restless, not at all ready to set...read more

by Doris Herrmann

Story telling is a tradition that has been practiced for hundreds of thousands of years. Historically speaking, "Every human culture in the world has told stories" (Central Oregon College Education Web Site) from Proverb...read more

by Jack Swindle

Princesses held captive in castles by wicked queens, young girls eager to taste porridge and travel sinister roads to grandmother's house, and breadcrumbs trailing off in the distance. Stories are a central essence to our ...read more

by E.M.Robinson

Storytelling is an excellent teaching strategy because stories ignite student interest, help students create vivid mental images and stories activate the thinking process. Stories form a framework for connecting events an...read more

by PinayWriter

I believe that I would not know half of what I know now had it not been for my mother's love for reading me stories when I was younger. Sure, I later found out in my literature classes in college that the fairytales that I...read more

by Helen Heard

The Educational Benefits Of Storytelling Storytelling is an ancient form of teaching. Civilization, have used it for centuries, to pass on their cultures history, and languages to the next generations. When they don't...read more

by Jack Schomig Jr

Storytelling is often associated with early elementary school education. Its value to middle, secondary and college educations are overlooked. Learning is composed to 3 major components perception, memory and association....read more

by Linda Shrigley

The Educational Benefits of Storytelling I started reading stories to my children from the time they were born. I would cradle them in my arms, lie down on the bed, and read them stories from the Grimes Fairy Tale colle...read more

by Laura Boyles

For as long as there has been language on the earth storytelling has been a way of conveying events in words, images and sounds. Storytelling has been used as form of entertainment, a way to preserve culture as well as ed...read more

by C Kedor

Reading to a child is one of the most important building blocks of literacy. The one common language that children of all ages have is literature. Children's books speak to infants just as much as they speak to children ...read more

by Sprasad

The world is new for a newborn child. what we know only is our limitation of imagination but When a child imagines its beyond the limits of our thinking. They are always attracted to new things again they see things a diff...read more

by Janet Wahlquist

Once upon a time there was a child, a very young child, and she, like all young children, needed to hear stories, lots and lots of stories. Storytelling is not just a nice extra in life, but a necessity, especially for...read more

by Candace Williams

Sitting at my grandfather's knee on a footstool I'd lean in towards him and he'd bend down to me. Then he'd get a twinkle in his eye and begin to tell me about the girl that was way too forward and how he dealt with her by...read more

by Hannah Curtis

I believe it should be part of every parent's role to sit down with their young children on a regular basis to read to them. It is a bonding exercise between parent and child as well as being educational. By being read to ...read more

by Bill Walker

Is Teaching a Calling? As I stumbled up the hills at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, Oklahoma, to begin my third year of college with no definite degree in...read more

by Becky Kelley

The Lost Treasure of Our Wonder Years In today's society, the idea of teaching has often become a stress filled race for superiority. How much can one child learn before he or she enters school? seems to be the question m...read more

by Denitsa Staicova

Imagination is one of the most important skills in life. Although often underestimated and not enough appreciated it's essential for surviving as a person and for creating a better world. Being able to foresee situations...read more

by K Shawn Edgar

Have you ever wondered whether imagination is genetically determined or nurtured by one's environment? Well, Penny Walter is the proof. It is both. Her mother flew around the world in Walter's bedroom, powered onl...read more

by Mc Addison

To educate all ages and stages of people, all kinds of techniques have been tried. We all know of the teacher who can spout off memorized statistics in a monotone voice. Graphs, charts, pictures, and figures can be present...read more

by Clare Walker

Storytelling has many educational benefits to a child. Both parents, in the home and teachers at school can assist a child in becoming a competent reader. Parents can play a crucial part in their children's education. Befo...read more