Jnr english storytelling

By Moroni Sunnex

Oral Storytelling

To understand the place that Oral

Storytelling has within the classroom, and how we as

beginning teachers can better incorporate it within our classroom

teaching.

Lesson Objective

What place do you believe Oral Storytelling

has within the classroom?

Who here told stories on practicum to their classes? What was it’s purpose? And effect?

What are some of the possible pitfalls we need to be weary of?

Discussion Questions

Creative Writing

Speeches Poetry

Key CompetenciesThinking

Using language, symbols, and textsManaging self

Relating to othersParticipating and contributing

Curriculum Links

Storytelling helps students sharpen their

skills of imagination and visualization. Storytelling increases vocabulary. Storytelling helps students refine speaking

skills. Storytelling helps students improve their

listening skills. Storytelling helps students see literature as

a reflection of human experiences.

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/content/cntareas/reading/li4lk28.htm

Collins and Cooper – Value of Storytelling(1997)

“Even though you was a crack fiend mama, you always was a Black queen

mama.” (‘Dear Mama’)

Tupac expressed his love for his mother,

Afeni Shakur, and the struggles she faced in

raising him.

Demonstrate personal trailer on “Tuesdays With

Morrie”

Individually take 3min to decide on a novel/film/short story and come up with a trailer to entice students to read/view it. Nominate one member from each group to present their 30sec trailer.

Note: Your not giving away the whole plot, just enough to entice them.

Trailer Activity

“Storytelling is what lights my fire”

Hope Davis (American Actress)

“Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living”Donald Davis (American Storyteller)

“Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today”Robert McAfee Brown (American Theologian)

Storytelling Quotes

Brad Stutzman. Storytelling In Christian Education. Retrieved from

http://bit.ly/12Ystcc

Brainy Quote. (2013). Storytelling. Retrieved fromhttp://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/storytelling.html

Combs M., & Beach J. D. (1994). Stories and storytelling: personalizing the social studies, The Reading Teacher 47, 6. 464.

Janet Towell, 'Storytelling in the Classroom: Twenty Tips', ProQuest, March 1998

References