Storytelling is the art of using language, gestures, and physical movement to share a story with a live audience. It involves orally presenting a narrative with characters, structure, and a sense of completeness. There are benefits to both reading a story aloud from a book and telling a story from memory without the book. Reading allows less mistakes but lacks a personal experience, while telling allows seeing children's faces but risks mistakes. Effective storytelling requires practice and uses preparing the environment, voice, body language, and language to engage listeners. Benefits of storytelling include helping children learn about the world, develop skills like listening and imagination, and support emotional and intellectual development.

1. STORYTELLING
María Obregón Sánchez
Rocío Raba López
Marta Velasco Moratinos

2. What is story telling?
What is a story? What is a telling?
Storytelling is the art of using language, vocalization, and/or
physical movement and gesture to reveal the element and
images of a story to a specific, live audience.
Person-to-person oral and
physical presentation of a story
to an audience
Specific structure of narrative
with a specific style and set of
characters and which includes a
sense of completeness

3. Read aloud or tell stories?
You don't have to learn the story
and you don't worry about making
mistakes
BUT...
You must be careful not to read
quickly and you must pay
attention to the listeners
You are giving children a personal
experience. You can see children's
faces
BUT...
You must learn the story well
enough to tell it without the book.
Risk of making some mistakes

4. Remember!
It requires some practise

5. How do you tell stories?
Preparing the
environment
Your
manner
Your voice
The
language
Your body
and
face

6. Benefits of Storytelling
Through the stories you can...
Know your world,
learn values and
new knowledge
and vocabulary
Develop learning
strategies:
listening,
imagination,
memorize, erc.
Develop every kind
of intelligence and
build a emotional
development

7. Activities
Teacher
tells a story
Children cross out
the words they
have listened
In turns, children
may invent an end
for the story
Associate each
keyword with
a gesture

8. Web applications
You can choose the
characters, the
background and
the language
You can add gestures and change the camera ange
You can watch and
listen to your story
Create your own video-story

9. Example of Storytelling

10. Webgraphy
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