How to Build Storytelling into your Classroom

What’s the Big Deal About

Telling?

Stories are the way we store information

in the brain.

Stories engage the emotions.

Storytelling instills a love of language in

children and motivates the desire to read.

Storytelling develops listening skills.

Storytelling by teachers motivates

children to tell stories.

It begins with us

Introducing our Story Square

And they all Lived Happily Ever After…

The Story Museum – lots of audio storieshttp://www.storymuseum.org.uk/

International School of Storytelling - Courseshttp://www.schoolofstorytelling.com

Pie Corbetthttp://www.piecorbett.org.uk/

Tim Sheppardhttp://www.timsheppard.co.uk/story/

Society for Storytelling – Events and Resourceshttp://www.sfs.org.uk/