What do you think? Is it possible? Well, after the last seminar, I was thinking about that stories are something that most children use to enjoy and have fun with them, so I thought that may be it will be a good resource for us as futures teachers to use and make easier to explain some contents, or just to don’t make classes so boring.

We can use the stories as we want, for example we can change or modify one part to explain what we want, but it is not always necessary because we also can use the original story. Let’s use a simple one as Little Red Riding Hood and have a look to the first part of the story:

“Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature who was ever seen. Her mother was excessively fond of her; and her grandmother doted on her still more. This good woman had a little red riding hood made for her. It suited the girl so extremely well that everybody called her Little Red Riding Hood.

One day her mother, having made some cakes, said to her, “Go, my dear, and see how your grandmother is doing, for I hear she has been very ill. Take her a cake, and this little pot of butter.”

Little Red Riding Hood set out immediately to go to her grandmother, who lived in another village.

As she was going through the wood, she met with a wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up”

If we pay attention, we can see that we could teach some contents using the story, for example, little red riding hood lived in a village, so we can start teaching the different locations or the types of forest that there are and the reasons of why she lived there.  Secondly we can see that she only lived with her mother, so it could be a good idea to use this situation in order  to explain the variety of families that there could be. Also we can talk about the wolf and the mammals, their diet and their way of living.

These are only some examples, but of course there are plenty of them, so, if you think that it is useful…let’s start using stories!