Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Storytelling & Reading Alound

I love storytelling, sharing, and reading with children. Storytelling and reading is an important "ritual" in early literacy cultivation from birth, infancy to early adolescence; through storytelling children develop listening, speaking skills and construct sentenses; building concepts e.g. colour, shapes, problem solving, promotes self-esteem and of course it further enhance their appreciation in reading.In my classroom storytelling, I had tried hand made puppets, masks and invited children participate in the story play for particular stories. I realised these props and activities does not only serve as a tools for stimulating children's auditory, visual but capture my playful classroom pals' attention, promotes optimal learning retention and their kinesthetic learning modalities too...

A nice presentable puppet not just fascinated and inspired children but to engage their vast fantasy imagination. Briefly, to further enrich the storytelling session, do consider extensive children participation. My suggestions are as follows :

1) Each child shall be given a copy of Vocabulary Bank Book to deposit newwords that they have learnt from the storytelling session. The number ofnew words to be deposited should be set by the Facilitator accordingly tothe learning pace of each individual child (e.g. for fast learner : 5 newwords per week). There will be a reward for the child when he/she has reached the set target number of new words to be learnt at their level.-Improve the children's ability to produce and comprehend a language
2) Invite/encourage children to participate in storytelling competition (by letting them pick their favourite story). Points will be given based oponfacial expression, good utterance, creativity and imagination etc....-Enhance/improve the child's communicative competence, memory andunderstanding.
3) Let the children participate in the making their ideal puppet from thestory they have selected.-Enhance/improve their fine motor skill, eye-hand co-ordination andcreativities-Encourage them to use recycled material when making their puppet, therebycultivating the "Go Green" concept of recycle, reuse and reproduce.

Last but not least, do pay attention to the fairytale stories that these fairytale stories itself comes with ideas and concepts that has been argued for decades in children's literature, like stealing or killing in Jack and the Beanstalk, Hansel & Gretel etc....is good to read it with adults' supervision.

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