Working with Young Children

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Working with Young Children

• CH 19 Guiding Storytelling Experiences

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Terms to KnowPage 301

• Storytelling
• Picture Books
• Storybooks
• 1Family Life Stories Timid Timothy
• 2Animal Stories Angus Cat, 3littlePigs
• 3Fairy Tales 1st Cinderella

• Flannel boards
• Reviews
• Props
• Draw and Tell
• Flipcharts

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The Importance of Storytelling

• Stories/Storytelling
• Should be often and routine
• Model acceptable behavior and positive
  relationships, understand others
• Increases vocab
• Teaches reading/listening skills
• Is relaxing

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Books as a Source of Stories

• Picture Bookssingle words or simple sentences
  and plots
• StorybooksMore words, complex plots, fewer
  pictures
• Family Life Stories-problems are resolved to
  teach social understanding
• Animal Stories-animals have human qualities and
  special abilities
• Fairy Tales-characters succeed, good wins

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Selecting Books for Children

• Familiar people, places, and things attract the
  attention of children
• Until 5-years, children cannot distinguish
  between fact and fiction
• Pictures should tell the story standing alone
• Only a few new words should be introduced in a
  story
• Attention Span 3-yr-olds 6-10 mins.,
• 4-yr-olds8-12 mins.
• Promote positive messages!

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Reading Stories to Children

• Read ahead of time
• Comfortable environment
• Small groups
• Help children settle down for story time
• Introduce with ?s, comments, and predictions
• Props grab attention
• Use normal voice, but add sound effects, pauses,
  and new voices for interest
• Answer ?s as they arise
• Make the ending apparent

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Achieving Variety in Storytelling

• Draw and Tell drawings are made on the
  chalkboard as story is told
• Tapes audio or video
• Puppets use as a listener who comes up w/?s
• Group Stories have children recount an event by
  making a story together
• Flipchartsstories drawn on tagboard cards
• Slide Stories center on pictures taken during an
  event
• Flannel Boardsusing characters and props cut out
  of felt

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Displaying Books

• Covers arranged to be seen
• Library area away from traffic, separated
  w/dividers
• Keep favorites, but rotate others for variety
• Address issues children are facing (divorce,
  illness, death, etc.)
• Books lie flat