Students as Storytellers

by Michael Novelli   |  March 26 2009    06:45 AM

I came across this inspiring video about teaching storytelling in the classroom. It is a promo for the book Children Tell Stories by by Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss. I do not have this book yet, but the video sold me!



I love that they have children do storymaps right away to “get away from the words” and put themselves in the story through pictures. I have used this story boarding method a lot, and it works well for telling and retelling any story. While I do incorporate creative retelling as a key part in my Storying process, I have been exploring how can I help students to become the storytellers. If the most effective method of learning is teaching something yourself, then involving students more in telling the stories seems to be a vital goal to have.

I would love to hear how you have tried this... I am always in “improvement” mode when it comes to teaching and learning!