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- Title
Strategies for Teaching Stories to Young Children.
- Authors
Obeng, Cecilia Sem
- Abstract
Storytelling is an important medium for educating children the world over. This article describes the strategies employed by an Early Childhood Educator in the delivery of storytelling lessons for preschool children in my classroom. Working within the framework of Dell Hymes' (1962) model on the ethnography of communication, the paper shows that a developmentally appropriate strategy for teaching storytelling must take into consideration; the overall setting and scene of the classroom, the students' cognitive and communicative competencies, and the outcomes and goals of the lesson. The author demonstrates that the structure and content of the stories, the tone, the spirit, or the way and manner in which the stories are told are all relevant to the success of the lesson. Finally, the various communicational channels, the norms of communication in the classroom, as well as the speech forms (such as songs, rhymes, and poems) contained in the story also contribute to the success of the lesson. The article concludes that a developmentally appropriate storytelling strategy should take the child's entire environment into consideration.
- Subjects
STUDY &; teaching of storytelling; EARLY childhood education; PRESCHOOL children; COGNITIVE ability; COMMUNICATION
- Publication
Canadian Children, 2006, Vol 31, Issue 1, p22
- ISSN
0833-7519
- Publication type
Article