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Short Stories and Fables

This document discusses the benefits of using short stories and fables in language teaching. It notes that stories engage children, help them understand the world, and build language skills. The document provides tips for choosing stories, preparing to read or tell stories, maintaining engagement, and incorporating vocabulary. Effective techniques include using props, pictures, realia, and varying tone and body language to involve children in the story.

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68 views9 pages

Short Stories and Fables

This document discusses the benefits of using short stories and fables in language teaching. It notes that stories engage children, help them understand the world, and build language skills. The document provides tips for choosing stories, preparing to read or tell stories, maintaining engagement, and incorporating vocabulary. Effective techniques include using props, pictures, realia, and varying tone and body language to involve children in the story.

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SHORT STORIES AND FABLES

INTRODUCTION
WHY STORIES
 We feed on stories: films, theatre plays, books, conversation with friends
 Stories teach us how to understand the world around us
 Stories are inexhaustible source of language building items
 Kids love them and they are always ready to hear a new story
 Kids search for the meaning in stories, and when they grasp it they are
happy
 Stories build fluency
 Stories help the children develop a sense of foreign language: they listen
without any obligation to repeat, and yet, they store language to use it
productively in the future
 Stories teach us how to listen, and that is a prerequisite for successful
communication
READING OR TELLING THE STORY
Reading :
-no need to memorise the text
-no fear of language mistakes
-text is always the same and predictable
-reading promotes books
-creates distance between a reader and a listener
-the reader easily gets lost in the text
READING OR TELLING THE STORY
Telling:
-a sense of sharing something personal
-a storyteller can make a very powerful impression
-talking is natural
-a storyteller can see the faces of the listeners
-a storyteller can use mime and body to tell the story
-a storyteller can use a more simple language
-story needs to be memorised extremly well
-language mistakes are possible
CHOOSING A STORY
You should choose a story which:
-could capture the children´s attention after the first sentence
-you personally like
-would be understandable enough to be enjoyed
-offers rich vocabulary
-does not have long descriptive passages
-suits other topics that you discuss with children
-you feel you can tell successfully
BEFORE YOU READ OR TELL THE
STORY
The success of your story depends on how well you have
prepared for it
You need to awake the spirit of storytelling in kids
Gather the children around you
Change the seating arrangement or create a story corner
Use an object: a storyteller´s bag, a puppet, a cloak, a hat
Use music – always the same
Tell them a story always at the same time
Show them a picture or an object
HOW TO BEGIN
 Create a context
 Wait for them to be perfectly still
 Don´t use long introductions
 Tell it naturally
 Use body and mime, move around, be dynamic
 Change the tone of your voice
 Emphasise the key words
 Stop the story to involve the children; ask them questions, make them feel
they are a part of the story
 Speak clearly and let your moves be a touch slower than in real life
 It is very important to maintain the magic, so keep everything under control
 Prepare well if you read from a book
LANGUAGE
Choose key words and teach them before or during the
story
Simplify the language, but do not alter the story beyond
recognition
Use big and clear pictures and cards
Use realia (objects) to explain vocabulary
Use the context of the story
Translate the word, if need be
SHORT STORIES AND FABLES

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND


PATIENCE

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