Teaching children to tell stories is a great way for them to review the stories their mother tells them every night, through which they can create their own stories and increase their creativity. Not every child can learn how to tell stories just by listening to them, parents need to know the following tips for their children to learn how to tell engaging stories.
First, choose a good story
A good story here is not just about the plot. To teach your child to tell stories, you need to choose a story with a good plot, containing life lessons. At the same time, the story needs to have a structure of 3 parts: beginning, middle and a beautiful ending, so that children can easily remember the content and narration.
You should choose stories that leave good lessons and have a lasting impact, such as the story Tam Cam, which helps children remember that good people will be helped and live happily even if they are harmed by evil people. The story of the 3 axes teaches children the lesson that if you live honestly, you will encounter good things. Children also like to listen to their parents talk about childhood stories, parents can tell about the life lessons they have learned.
The story of the 3 axes teaches children about honesty
Attract your child's attention
In the process of teaching children to tell stories, parents should emphasize and repeat important phrases in the story. In addition, highlight interesting details to make the story more engaging. When reading dialogue, depending on the character's characteristics, parents can use different tones of voice to help children easily distinguish them. After that, parents can ask their child to retell the story, and the child can repeat emphasized words better.
The accent and emotion in your voice will help children enjoy the story more
Furthermore, you need to maintain eye contact with your child, and create funny facial expressions or gestures while teaching your baby to tell stories. To make sure your child has grasped the pace of the story, you can insert questions to help your child guess about the next episode, or answer about the events that have happened. All of these things help children focus on the story, and you also teach them how to tell stories faster.
Create interaction when telling stories
Interacting while telling is a way to help children realize the purpose of listening to the story. Children will pay more attention to the details of the story and intonation when telling, thanks to that, parents will teach their children to tell stories more easily.
After telling the story, mother and baby will discuss and exchange opinions on a number of issues, for example: "In the story, what brave actions did the character show?"; “What lesson can we learn from the story?”; “What do you feel after hearing the story?” These questions will encourage children's critical thinking, they will analyze and relate to what they have heard to answer the questions. In addition, questions also help mothers understand aspects that children do not understand and recount them to their children.
The final step is to complete teaching your child to tell stories
After retelling the story according to the steps above, your child can remember the ideas of the opening, middle, and end and retell the story in a way he or she understands. Teaching children to retell stories will show what they understand; and give children opportunities to share their own perspectives. Encourage your child to tell the same story to another family member in the family. Besides, mothers can write the "next chapter" of a story with their children to encourage their children's ability to relate and be creative.
The story has ended but we can still "write more" thanks to our creativity
These stories can come from a child's rich imagination or from a combination of real-life stories. If you play the role of an audience; Parents should listen, praise and encourage their children by asking questions related to the content of the picture they are drawing or the book they are reading; Ask your child to add more details to the story. This is a way to teach children to tell stories that many mothers have applied very successfully.
Benefits of teaching children to tell stories
Teaching children to tell stories is a method that helps children nurture their imagination and new ideas. The process of practicing storytelling also encourages children to communicate regularly, they will use language more fluently, and improve their communication skills. Children who learn to tell stories from a young age will be able to communicate better than their peers.
Babies can develop the ability to recognize colors when mothers integrate them into stories combined with letting them watch comics and cartoons. Mothers should let their children watch a variety of stories from fairy tales, fables, comics to stories from everyday life.
The best age to teach your child to tell stories is when he or she is 3 years old. You can easily see images of your child telling stories to dolls or pets. That is when parents should support and encourage their children to develop language skills faster with good stories and suggested questions. You can also refer to the neat, beautifully designed magnetic books with a variety of topics from animals, oceans, dinosaurs, cars... of the PEEK A BOO brand .
