| Birth to Six - Spotlight on Storytelling |
Featured Children's Books | Storytelling Books | Online & Local Resources
Storytelling is one of the most powerful ways we communicate, share experience and memory, and organize our world. While children are born without narrative skills, they quickly develop in the first years of life. What parents and caregivers do during these years is important in developing these early storytelling abilities. By adding vocabulary and description to a child's experiences and world around them, you're helping build important language skills. Sharing bedtime stories, talking about the events you experience during the day, and telling stories about the past, the day your child was born, and your own experience or favorite stories as a child all help build narrative skills and a love of language. Having narrative
skills means being able to describe things and events and tell stories.
This is an important pre-reading skill that all children need. As your
child grows, sharing traditional stories that are a part of your
family's heritage also gives them a sense of community and builds their
sense of identity. Featured Children's Books:
Library Books for Beginning Storytellers:Caroline Feller Bauer's New Handbook for Storytellers: with Stories, Poems, Magic, and More The Complete Book of Activities, Games, Stories, Props, Recipes, and Dances for Young Children Creative Storytelling: Choosing, Inventing, and Sharing Tales for Children Every Child a Storyteller: a Handbook of Ideas The
Family Storytelling Handbook: How to Use Stories, Anecdotes, Rhymes,
Handkerchiefs, Paper, and other Objects to Enrich Your Family Traditions The Flannel Board Storytelling Book Leading Kids to Books Through Puppets The Storyteller's Start-Up Book: Finding, Learning, Performing, and Using Folktales including Twelve Tellable Tales Storytelling: Art and Technique Twenty Tellable Tales: Audience Participation Folktales for the Beginning Storyteller Online Resources:
Local Storytelling Guild:
January 31 - February 3, 2008 Past Spotlights |
You Have an Important Story to Share 
Tcha Tee Man Wi Storytelling Festival
