STORYTELLING



===Storytelling is the conducting of events in words, images and sounds. Stories have been shared in cultures as a means of entertainment, education and cultural preservation. It also teaches moral values. elements of a story include the plot, characters, and settings. storytelling can be a comfortable way of learning for natives coming to America. For students, they can listen to stories, read stories, and create their own stories.===

=__**Story Circles**__= Teachers can start off the class with the beginning of a story that was made up. Then choose a student to go off of your story and continue on and then choose another person to add on and so on and so forth. This gets students to be creative, improv by thinking on their feet, speak in front of a class and create a silly or scary class story. This can be a lesson plan or just for fun after a hard day of work.

=__**My StoryMaker**__= My StoryMaker is a neat tool for students to control their characters and objects in a story. They decide the adventure of the story and the sentences that go in the story. This is a neat thing to do at home or on computers during free time or Language Arts. I definitely recommend this site and its totally free! Students can print out their books and read it to the class or take it home to read. Here's the website! []