UNIT 2: ACTIVATING CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

It's time to stories now!

                   Folktales, modern tales, tales of yestarday and today.

                                                     

     The art of story telling: Pre-telling, telling and post-telling.

Storytelling is an art and we can not underestimate. You have to know how to tell stories because this is good for both: students and for us as teachers.

We have operate each of our faces as teachers know how to use the voice, gestures, selection of the story, knowing that possibilities offered by this story ...

• Storytelling is interactive, that means that it involves a two-way interaction between a storyteller and one or more listeners. The responses of the listeners influence the telling of the story. In fact, storytelling emerges from the interaction and cooperative, coordinated efforts of teller and audience.

• Storytelling uses actions such as vocalization, physical movement and/or gesture. These actions are the parts of spoken or manual language other than words. Their use distinguishes storytelling from writing and text-based computer interactions. Not all nonverbal language behaviors need to be present in storytelling. Some storytellers use body movement extensively, for example, whereas others use little or none.

•  Storytelling presents a story that means that Storytelling always involves the presentation of a storya narrative. Many other art forms also present story, but storytelling presents it with the other four components. Every culture has its own definition of story. What is recognized as a story in one situation may not be accepted as one in another. Some situations call for spontaneity and playful digression, for example; others call for near-exact repetition of a revered text. Art forms such as poetry recitation and stand-up comedy sometimes present stories and sometimes don’t. Since they generally involve the other four components, they can be regarded as forms of storytelling whenever they also present stories.

•  Storytelling encourages the active imagination of the listeners. In storytelling, the listener imagines the story. In most traditional theatre or in a typical dramatic film, on the other hand, the listener enjoys the illusion that the listener is actually witnessing the character or events described in the story.

 TO APPLY ALL OF THESE INFORMATION AND REFLECTIONS: 

Have a look to these videos, with simple thnigs our storytelling can be perfect.

THE WATCH.: MICHAEL ROSEN

    CHOCOLATE CAKE: MICHAEL ROSEN

Hope you like it! Remember sometimes teachers we are like actors and our audience are our children.

Ester C.