Story Telling

Stories written for children are fun and interesting. These stories are usually simplier, more easy to comprehend, with clear messages or values, everything is described in details, emotions and reactions are illustrated explicitely. These stories are written in this way because children's knowledge and life experience is still quite limited and it is important to tell them the details they may not be able to associate in order to communicate the message effectively. Listening to stories written in such a way is fun (as you don't need to use much brain), but to tell story in this way can be quite challenging.

There is a story time in P2SS. The teaching material is provided but the story outlined is too simple for the 20 min session. The teacher needs to put in more details to make it longer but yet interesting enough to attract the kids' attention. It requires some effort and time to do it and sometimes can be quite head scratching. But as in other teaching services, the teacher will be the one who gets the most.

The stories used in childern SS are usually quite familiar to the teacher (and even to the children). To elaborate the details to make sure the kids can follow and can understand the message well, the teacher can use everyday life examples, changing 3rd person narration into dialogues, make it interactive, use games, role play, etc. Applying these different techniques can help discovering new things from these familiar stories. It may just be a small point; but this small point might cast new light and help one see the incident in a completely new perspective.

Discovering new things from the Words is certainly very exciting; but to a green teacher, when the kids listen to the story attentively and quietly, being responsive to the interaction, it is really encouraging ^^