kids stories
Children's stories is one of the many types of children's literature, which is based on a group of interrelated incidents. The events of children's stories may be of a fictional or realistic nature. One of the most important elements that must be available in children's stories is the temporal and spatial environment, and that they are purposeful, valuable, and carry educational meanings. Gracious, it aims to instill positive values in the hearts of children, and contribute to expanding their perceptions and horizons of thinking.
The story is considered one of the most important components necessary for building the child’s personality, and conveying the educational, social, and cultural meanings to him in the simplest ways that suit his age. Simple teaching method.
Ways to display children's stories
Storytelling methods
- Tell the story through a book with colorful pictures.
- Telling the story using electronic means such as a computer.
- Narration through puppet theatre.
- Narration through drawing.
- Narration using figures and shapes that serve the elements of the story.
before narration
- Studying the story with its characters, events, and expressions, so that the narrator assumes the role of each character of the story.
- Preparing the means of telling the story from pictures and tools, and linking the child between the story and the method used.
- Preparing a suitable place to tell the story to the child, and it may be an open place such as the garden of the house or the child’s kindergarten.
narrative stage
- Presenting the story in a question-and-answer dialogue style, with the aim of making children interact with the story and unleash their imagination.
- The narrator used expressive diction and acting as if he were one of the characters of the story.
- The use of visual and audio means, as it contributes to the suspense of children to listen to the story.
- The narrator’s selection of appropriate words. Choosing words that suit the child’s age level attracts children’s attention. Accordingly, the narrator must be familiar with the linguistic dictionary used by children, and focus on choosing words that contribute to stimulating the sensory meanings related to the child’s senses.
- Avoid repeating phrases that are outside the framework of the narrative text, such as asking the child: Do you understand?
after narration
- Replay the story, but this time the narrator is the child, and he puts an appropriate title for the story.
- Post-story dialogue, in which the narrator begins by asking questions to the children, and the children attempt to relate the characters and events of the story to reality.
- Representation, which is when each child assumes a character from the story and re-enacts the scene in reality.
- Drawing where the child expresses the story by drawing its events.
