Storytelling engages our narrative minds in the service of language learning in the classroom.
Tools such as shadowing, summarizing, retelling, action logging, and newslettering increase
student comprehension, negotiation of meaning, and feelings of community. These intensifying
activities allow learners multiple opportunities to respond deeply to stories and experience shifts
in their beliefs and attitudes. This then leads to more lively participation in and out of class.
Teachers’ choices for stories are endless. For example, stories may be based on personal
experience, traditional fairy tales, or others borrowed from books such as those in the Chicken
Soup for the Soul series and Robert Fulghum’s books. They may even be culled from the
Internet. We often borrow our colleagues’ stories and have made up some for specific purposes.
Whatever the source of the stories, we find it crucial to practice telling them and to tell them with
heart. We also notice that the more we tell certain stories, the more we realize, we become, in
small and significant ways, our choices.
Storytelling engages our narrative minds in the service of language learning in the classroom.Tools such as shadowing, summarizing, retelling, action logging, and newslettering increasestudent comprehension, negotiation of meaning, and feelings of community. These intensifyingactivities allow learners multiple opportunities to respond deeply to stories and experience shiftsin their beliefs and attitudes. This then leads to more lively participation in and out of class.Teachers’ choices for stories are endless. For example, stories may be based on personalexperience, traditional fairy tales, or others borrowed from books such as those in the ChickenSoup for the Soul series and Robert Fulghum’s books. They may even be culled from theInternet. We often borrow our colleagues’ stories and have made up some for specific purposes.Whatever the source of the stories, we find it crucial to practice telling them and to tell them withheart. We also notice that the more we tell certain stories, the more we realize, we become, insmall and significant ways, our choices.
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