How can storytelling benefit preschool children.?

Question

Need to know how storytelling can benefit preschoolers and help them with their Physical, Intellectual, Language, Emotional and Social Developmental needs.

Doing an assignment and need some help.

thank you.

Answer 1

The best of storytelling is done with great imagination and movement. I don't know exactly what your assignment allows. But, real storytelling has been used through the ages in many cultures as a social time and family history time. Today's modern storytelling has lost much of that, but a good storyteller will engage the child in imagination and participating in ideas, completing sequences and even discussing roles and identities within the idea of the story. It is a social time in circle time, and I enourage my parents to tell their history to their chldren and relate when they were small to what their children are experiencing now. The best storytelling is done with music and movement, think of the Native Americans and their pow wows. that is an perfect example of storytelling through traditions.

Those children are learning their history, identification, connecting with others their age and respecting their elders.  Good luck with your project! :) Hope this helps.

Answer 2

i would imagine it helps there concentration and imagination.

its like reading a book or listening to a radio programme the hero and heroine can look how you want them to

Answer 3

Storytelling has existed since humans first learnt to speak.

It's primary function is to make sense of the world around us and to allow us to agree upon our experiences of it.

When we first hear Little Red Riding Hood, we learn the relationships between good and bad, danger and safety, truth and lies and the reliance of children on adults protection.

Many of our earliest and most important lessons come to us through stories, and in later life we share our lives with each other through the same process.  Films, TV, Radio, books all make us pay attention to what others have to say...and that is the art of storytelling.

Answer 4

I dont think it does. The morals are rediculous

Answer 5

IT HELPS THE LITTLE CHILDREN DEVELOP AN IMAGINATION, KIDS LIKE TO HAVE FUN EVERY ONCE AND A WHILE. YOU WOULD NOT WANT THEM THINKING YOUR BORING OR ANYTHING. THEY MIGHT EVEN BECOME ATTACHED TO YOU. YOU MIGHT NOT WANT TO BREAK THEIR LITTLE HEATS BY TELLING THEM THAT "SUPERMAN" IS NOT REAL! IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!! LOL. ALSO MOZART DEVELOPS THEIR LITTLE BRAINS, TRY PLAYING IN THE ROOM THEY ARE IN ONE DAY . SOON THEIR LITTLE BRAINS WILL BE AS BIG AS EINSTEINS!

Answer 6

Physical development; if it is done through actions eg. The Bear Hunt story can be acted out as the children listen to it. Children learn through all their senses, so movement helps to make the story much more real to them and helps them to make sense of it. For example, you can hear the people in the story going 'splash splosh' through the water, but doing the actions helps them to really appreciate what it's like to step through water. It also encourages and enhances their imagination.

Intellectual and language; this is more obvious, they will learn new vocabulary and hear words used in the correct context, which will help them to understand them. They will begin to understand the concept of a word through repetition, rhyming, alliteration and onomatopoeia etc. They will hear language being modelled and then use it themselves. Listening to stories helps children to learn about sequencing and cause and effect. It helps them to be able to order their thoughts. Litsening to stories also encourages children to gain an interest in books and leads to them wanting to be able to read for themselves.

Emotional and social; If they listen to stories, they will be learning that sometimes you have to sit quietly and listen while someone else speaks. This helps them to learn how to form friendships, taking turns in conversation. Children can live out their fantasies and concerns through stories. For example, they may want to hear stories about monsters, this helps them to explore their emotions in a safe environment. They can experience fear or sadness and how these things feel, without being in any real danger or being really sad.  And although in real life, people don't always live happily ever after, in stories they usually do, and this is comforting to children. Listening to stories is an important part of learning to be together and enjoying the company of others.

That's just the stuff off the top of my head. It's a very important part of preschool. At my nursery we don't have a timetable any more because the children choose what they want to do and when. We don't want to say to them that our timetable or agenda is more important than theirs, but the one thing we still, and will always do, is stop half an hour from the end of the sessions to tidy up and them nave stories and songs.

Good luck with the assignment :-)

Answer 7

Children often have a favourite story and hearing it repeated gives them a sense of security.

Listening develops their attention skills.

They learn to follow the sequence in a story and know there is a beginning,middle and end. There is often a moral to the tale so they develop a sense of right and wrong.

They learn new words and descriptions for things they see around them.

They can act out the stories and learn to involve others in their play.