How can you be a good storyteller to your kids?

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   Shil1978posted 13 years ago

   How can you be a good storyteller to your kids?

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   Jeff Berndtposted 13 years ago

   It helps to be well-read. If you know a lot of stories, you're more likely to be able to tell them. Also, when you know a lot of stories really well, you can mix-and-match them to make something new, and you can put your kids into the stories, which will make the stories more interesting, and the kids will have a really good reason to listen.

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   Shil1978posted 13 years ago

   Thank you Jeff for answering this question. I agree, being well read is a plus and helps, but there's also a method to it, isn't it? I mean, the way you tell a story - one that is engaging to the child.
   
   I would think there can be two types of storytellers, one who comes across as monotonous, boring perhaps, unidimensional and the other who is expressive, funny and catches the interest of the child.

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   yvensposted 13 years ago

   you are right on the money there, the one who is expressive is the one the children will really enjoy, most of the time they will not be paying attetion to the story but, to the expressions and the interaction of the storyteller, it's about raport.
   (I think )

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   tryoneposted 13 years ago

   Put yourself into their shoes as a reader willing to make it a fun reading session.

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   Somersonberkeyposted 13 years ago

   just tell them a good story. be sure it is interesting and deliver it with all your heart. and do it frequently.

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   vox vocisposted 13 years ago

   Try reading my hub on storytelling. It is meant for teachers who are teaching a second language to pre-schoolers, but it can be applied to parents as well. Storytelling is simply storytelling after all :-)

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   Abecedarianposted 13 years ago

   Well, I do family history research and so I usually find out something interesting and tell my kids, then they ask questions and usually the subject opens itself up for other stories that I've read or remembered from my childhood and a lot of times, they take over and I get to listen to their stories. It's amazing at some of the things they come up with.

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