Comentarios en: Telling stories

Por: carla calleja

carla calleja — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 23:09:17 +0000

Hi Jaime, thank you for comment on my post. I just want to tell you that in addition of your comment, I heard a great strategy to avoid the shyness that we can combine with the telling stories strategies. This method consist on create little groups; with this we are reducing the amount of spectators, and also the environmental tension.
Thank you again 

Por: Raquel Fernández Fernández

Raquel Fernández Fernández — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 18:36:26 +0000

Carla, it is great you found the storytelling session interesting. It is important to be more specific when talking about methodology. For example, instead of using ‘way’ is better to say technique, method or strategy, when appropriate. Let me clarify that the techniques you mention can be used at the same time. You can use choral speaking together with KUngfu punctuation, for example. This is great as you can combine them and provide students with more or less scaffolding. Also,keep an eye on your syntax and check missing -ing forms in your text. Keep on working hard

Por: jaime.garcia1

jaime.garcia1 — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 08:54:01 +0000

Hello Carla, I have read your post and I totally agree with your different opinions about the strategies for making storytelling motivational and useful. My favorite point of your post is that you care about shy students; that´s because I used to be one of them when I was at school.

According to developing new strategies to make any children participate in story telling activities, I may suggest that it would be useful to choose specific stories that don´t really need a big amount of characters, but it must include very interactive dialogues between the characters so that children forget their shyness because they are sharing their confidence with their partners.

However, talking about introducing gestures in a story, I can say that I find it very interactive for children, but to ensure that they learn and keep their motivation, it would be necessary to introduce some scaffolding techniques, so that, the students can learn it in an easier way. In addition, the contents included in this story must be educational and should appear in the curriculum if it is possible.

Finally I have to say that I really liked writing this comment on your post and it would be very interesting to read more of your opinions on the blog. Good job!