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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Forum 2: Storytelling young children
We started storytelling a bit late in the year, but we did start. After experiencing and analysing so many books and TV shows for children, we should be able to place storytelling in the classroom context and try to identify its pros and cons. That's the aim of this forum. So tell us, what do you think? Can you share one pro and one con of this activity?
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Only one of each???
ReplyDeleteOne pro: Storytelling increases students/children's imagination and involvement.
One con: A noisy environment may disctract our students while they are listening the story.
Sorry!! DISTRACT!!!
ReplyDeleteAccording the storytelling you showed us about a bee, I can say:
ReplyDeleteA pro: storytelling helps students remember new words using repetitions. Storytelling helps students create vivid mental images while listening to it.
A con: teachers have to take care about the topic because sometimes it could be related with some sad moment in their lives. For example the storytelling that tell us about "where is my mother?"
I'm not really good when pointing out pros and cons, but I will do my best! A pro could be that storytelling (as the one you did about the boy and the crabs) can make more vivid the story and children may be more engaged and even pay more attention to the teacher. As regards a con, I agree with Vale when she says that a noisy classroom as well as a great number of students may difficult the storytelling. Besides, when you are telling a story like that, you have to be careful and don't mispronounce any word. In doing so, students may confuse.
ReplyDeleteI like storytelling a lot! I am used to doing that in my classes at kindergarden and students really enjoy it. It's so nice qhen you see the kids face and all the gestures they make. As Valeria says, maybe one bad thing about it would be noise or any other distracting elements near the classroom.
ReplyDeleteI love storytelling!!!!!! this is the best way to make children enjoy a story and enjoy a class. It is sth different and children can also interact with the characters of the story and participate on it. I can not think of any con now. children are always noisy and it is ok, I think.Perhaps one con would be that children want a storytelling every class!!
ReplyDeleteLidia Figueroa
ReplyDeleteChildren love storytelling because they enjoy to interact and say their own conclusions of the stories.So,storytelling is a good teaching strategy that not only will develop the imgination of our students but it also will develop a communicative ability in them.But we,as teachers and adults,have to be very careful when choosing the stories because they have to be according to the cognitive level and of the children
One pro of storytelling is that when children see gestures and teachers act, while listening to the stories, kids learn to associate what they see with what they hear. Storytelling is a great activity of learning because it can improve the listening skills of children.
ReplyDeleteOne con of this activity could be that if teachers want kids to listen actively and understand the story, they have to read out the stories emotionally, change the pitch of their voices according to the feelings and emotions told in the story. Use effective body language to convey ideas in the exact way, and these entire thing are quite difficult to achieve, I think.
Daniela Busto.