Learning From Storytelling

My sketch of a blank visual portrait outline:






Three teachers use this often as an outline for oral storytelling. The children's versions are much more attractive! Depending on the age group, they use words or pictures to think through their story before telling it aloud. Each child practices a few times, trying to add detail and more expression as they share with their audience.

One first grade teacher used the video camera on her tablet to record her students "story podcasts."

It got me wondering, the idea of a visual portrait to outline a story seems as if it will help to expand the details available to a storyteller of any age. Most children speak with greater detail than their writing. We often share as a Pre or post-writing activity, but why not use it as the activity?

If we develop oral storytelling skills, then that experience should also impact written storytelling.

-Lynne

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