Once upon a time.... Storytelling at home!
You know that feeling when you can’t put a book down? How will the story end? Can the lead character throw the ring into the fires of Mount Doom? Will all the horcruxes be destroyed, leaving the world safe at last? That same feeling of excitement and urgency can be created and fostered with or without books.
When children tell stories, either directly to another person or through their imaginative play, they are engaging in a literacy activity. Storytelling benefits children’s oral fluency, which is how clearly, comfortably, and accurately they can express themselves in speech. Storytelling also builds creativity and a love for reading and writing. Storytelling allows children to make connections between academia and their own personal experiences (Lisenbee & Ford, 2018). Stories can allow insight into a child’s view of the world (Rainville & Gordh, 2016). Importantly, across modalities, languages, and cultures, all stories involve a relationship between the storyteller and the listener (Morgan, 2011).
Additionally, in this age of digital literacies, children can engage with storytelling using all sorts of multimodal tools. For example, storytelling can be digitally, through the use of whiteboards, comics, and smartphones (Lisenbee & Ford, 2018). These stories can be built together with the child, created by you and told to the child, or independently created by the child (Rainville & Gordh, 2016).
As we continue into more weeks at home, here are some fun storytelling apps that you can use to play and learn with your children. How will they tell their stories? We can’t wait to find out!
Draw and Tell: This app, for iOS, lets you draw and record your voice to create stories of your own!
Wonderscope: This app has many different stories that let you use virtual reality and talk along with the characters to learn different topics (such as outer space!). This is available for both iOS and Android.
References:
Lisenbee, P., & Ford, C. (2018). Engaging Students in Traditional and Digital Storytelling to Make Connections Between Pedagogy and Children’s Experiences. Early Childhood Education Journal, 46(1), 129–139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-017-0846-x
Morgan, A. (2011). Language, Literacy, Literature: Using Storytelling in the Languages Classroom. Babel, 46(2-3), 20–29. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1037908402/
Rainville, K., & Gordh, B. (2016). Toward a Narrative Classroom: Storytelling, Media, and Literacy. YC Young Children, 71(4), 76–81. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1819682451/
Additionally, in this age of digital literacies, children can engage with storytelling using all sorts of multimodal tools. For example, storytelling can be digitally, through the use of whiteboards, comics, and smartphones (Lisenbee & Ford, 2018). These stories can be built together with the child, created by you and told to the child, or independently created by the child (Rainville & Gordh, 2016).
As we continue into more weeks at home, here are some fun storytelling apps that you can use to play and learn with your children. How will they tell their stories? We can’t wait to find out!
Draw and Tell: This app, for iOS, lets you draw and record your voice to create stories of your own!
Wonderscope: This app has many different stories that let you use virtual reality and talk along with the characters to learn different topics (such as outer space!). This is available for both iOS and Android.
References:
Lisenbee, P., & Ford, C. (2018). Engaging Students in Traditional and Digital Storytelling to Make Connections Between Pedagogy and Children’s Experiences. Early Childhood Education Journal, 46(1), 129–139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-017-0846-x
Morgan, A. (2011). Language, Literacy, Literature: Using Storytelling in the Languages Classroom. Babel, 46(2-3), 20–29. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1037908402/
Rainville, K., & Gordh, B. (2016). Toward a Narrative Classroom: Storytelling, Media, and Literacy. YC Young Children, 71(4), 76–81. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1819682451/
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