Importance Of Story Telling

Story-telling means reading out stories to audience. Story-telling is one of the ways of communication in human, and one of the teaching methods in education. Through speaking, story-telling, appeals to the imagination and is within the listening skills of the audience. Besides that, story-telling helps children develop thoughtful and consideration in cultures and religions. Besides that, story-telling enhances children to boost up their thinking capacity and creativity, increasing knowledge, introducing new vocabularies, and shaping up their personalities. According to Pellowski (1990), “Storytelling is the art or craft of narration of stories in verse and or prose, as performed or led by one person before a live audience; the stories narrated

For teacher, telling stories in the class is a way of motivating children and leading them on a journey of their imagination. Hence, proper techniques are important in story-telling:

1. Choose a suitable story for your children with proper objective.

2. Proper intonation, expression and body language is very important in story-telling, and this can help children to feel they are in the story.

3. Having interaction and get involvement with your children.

Using Story-Telling for Assessing Language Skills

Story-telling is a good activity of learning in educations, especially for assessing four language skills, which are listening, reading, speaking and writing. There are some activities that teachers can be done in the classroom through story-telling. I am using the story that taken from Clever Jack Takes the Cake, by Candace Fleming to assess the four language

From the discussion before the story starts, children develop their creativity to tell what they think about the story.

2. From listening to story, questioning the story, and discussing the story, children develop their listening skill and speaking skill.

3. Children learn new words through listening, and this is supporting the development of their vocabulary.

4. Listening to story helps and enhances children’s awareness of story structure. From questioning, children can recall and comprehend the story structure, or even creating a new story and adding more story elements.

5. Involvement of speaking and listening session helps children to develop oral skill and literacy skill. By listening to story, children can develop new range of language, such as learning new phrases, speeches and grammar.

6. Children can retell and modify the story into their own, which may help them to understand more and remember the story.

7. From communication, children able to interact with teachers and enhance their verbal proficiency. Reading and Writing Skills Story-telling enhances children’s imagination, expose to new vocabulary, and improve their reading skill and comprehension skill. By improving the reading and writing skill, several activities can be done during the