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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