Storytelling: Questions for parents to reflect on and story re-telling activities
Think about the examples you saw:
✓ What do oral traditions tell/teach children?
✓ Why do you think telling stories to children is important for children?
✓ What do children learn when their parents share stories that are important to them (their personal stories from the past, stories they listened to as children)?
✓ What do children learn when making-up stories?
Focus on your experience:
✓ Which oral stories are important in your country?
✓ Which stories were you told as a child?
✓ Do you remember being told traditional stories? Do you remember being told made-up stories?
✓ Where and how did this storytelling happen? Who was involved?
✓ In which way were those storytelling moments important to you?
✓ Do you tell stories from your childhood to your child?
✓ Do you tell stories about yourself to your child?
✓ Is your child interested in storytelling?
✓ Is your child curious about family stories?
✓ Do you think it is important to share family stories with your child?
✓ Do you make-up stories together with your child at all?
✓ Which languages do you use when you tell stories to your child?
can you share a story with the group and at home WITH your child?:
✓ Can you share a story you remember from your childhood with the group?
✓ Can you share a story you know from your childhood with your child at home?
✓ Ask your child to re-tell the story. What can you do to support your child in telling the story?
✓ Can you take a recording of storytelling at home to share with the group?