Storytelling

1. Shaimaa Mohamed Amany Abed El-Fattah Collected by : Storytelling

2. What is storytelling? Is the art of orally sharing a story or experience with an audience using physical movement and gestures .

3. Storytelling is the oldest form of education, culture have always told tales as a way of passing down beliefs, traditions and history to future generation. Stories are the best way to store information in the brain. A list of facts will be forgotten but stories are remembered it help us organize information and tie content together.

4. Benefits of storytelling Improves listening skills. Raises the enthusiasm for reading texts to find stories . Initiates writing because children will quickly want to write stories and tell them. Encourage use of imagination and creativity Really attract the boys who love the acting. Gives a motivating reason for children to speak English . Encourage cooperation between students Encourage active participation

5. Criteria of selecting a story : (Martin,2004) stated that teachers should choose a story Which attract the children within the first few lines. Which children will understand well enough to enjoy it. Which offers the children a rich experience of language . Which doesn’t have long descriptive passages. Which is right for the occasion and related to children interests. Which should have repeated grammatical structures that enables children to acquire useful phrases. Which exercise the imagination.

6. To know how to tell a story inside the classroom you have to know the following : The main element of a short story. Effective storytelling performance skills. How to be a storyteller?

7. The main elements of short story:

8. Voice Mechanics: a storyteller Speaks with an appropriate volume for the audience to hear. Employs clear pronunciation. Face/Body/Gesture : A storyteller expressively uses non-verbal communication to clarify the meaning of the text Focus : - Concentration is clear. - Eye contact with audience is engaging. Effective Storytelling Performance Skills

9. Characterization: If dialogue is employed, characters are believable to listener. Storyteller's natural voice is differentiated from character voices. Use of space: Storyteller seems comfortable, relaxed and confident in front of listeners. Pacing : The story is presented efficiently and keeps listeners' interest throughout .

10. Make your gestures easy and calm . Tell stories that you like. Take the time to prepare  Use eye-contact with your listeners Use good pacing. Use a strong and confident voice Remove the slow parts of your story. How do you become a storyteller?

11. Read as many different world folktales, fables and legends as you can . Watch professional storytellers and take notes about how they do it every storyteller is different, and you can learn something from them all. Pick stories with small numbers of characters and repeating events, as these are easiest to remember. Having said that, pick any story you like -- no, that you love! If it captivates you, it will captivate the younger ones, too. Write the stories down in a notebook. Writing helps you remember a story, and it models the same to the children. When you start "telling" your story, it's OK to have the book nearby and to take a look at it if you forget a part. Don't be too hard on yourself. You are a student again.