Why Oral Storytelling?
When you hear a story being told your mind creates its own pictures. These mind pictures are based on
your own life experiences and the concepts you have developed up until this point in your life. As you
listen, you see things with your own colours, and you can add your own sounds and background noises
in your mind. Someone else might tell the story, but it is your story in your head. When you ask
children to retell stories the essential parts they give you will generally be correct, but the way they see
things happen, and the way they understand things in the story differ from child to child. They have
made that story live for themselves.