Coaching Beginner Storytellers
Always begin comments with a compliment: What did the storyteller do well?
Remember: Enthusiastic, respectful listeners help storytellers improve!
Listening Partner Feedback:
Only the teller can answer these questions.
Important Rehearsal Tip:
Have students practice telling the story to one person at a time. Keep changing partners. as confidence builds have them tell to small groups. When well-rehearsed, students can tell to the class.
To give practice a focus arrange a: Storytelling Festival Day
The primary goal of a student festival is to help students feel confident speaking publicly and to encourage considerate group listening skills to support each teller.
Have each student prepare to present a short oral story (5-7 minutes) first to one other student and then to larger groups, until the telling is done for the entire class.
Students can find stories to tell either in the Stories In A Nutshell or Aesop's ABC section of this website or, send students to the Public Library to take out a folktale book from the 398.2 section.
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