Storytelling across the Primary Curriculum

Children’s literature to promote students’ global development and wellbeing

“…28 Multicomponent narrative-based approaches (storytelling, role-playing, games, post-reading activities) are able to satisfy children emotional needs, provide sensory input, increase attention span, and shape the aesthetic taste. 43,44 The power of listening and speaking is able to create artistic images and induce schoolchildren to produce their own stories or tales. This is well accomplished by introducing them to literature from early childhood, and ensuring them interesting, funny and attractive materials.…”

“…Lesnik-Oberstein, 1998 20 Steadman & Palmer, 1997 1 Bettelheim, 1991 57 Ohler, 2006 22 Moyer, 2000 38 Cairney, 1984 58 Hunt, 2000 23 Banister & Ryan, 2001 39 Storr, 1986 59 Zeece PD, 2004 24 Riecken & Miller, 1990 40 Purves & Monson, 1984 60 Zipes, 1996 25 Batini & Giusti, 2008 41 Freud & Strachey, 1964 61 Boyd et al, 2011 26 Williams, 2000 42 Bernays, 1979 62 Hunt, 2006 27 Daniel, 2013 43 Heath et al, 2005 63 Winnicott, 1964 28 Brice, 2004 44 Wyatt, 2008 64 Nikolajeva, 1995 29 Brown, 2000 45 Piotrow & De Fossard, 2003 65 Zipes, 2013 30 Isbell et al, 2004 46 Albert, 2010 66 Kilpatrick et al,1994 31 Mokhtar et al, 2011 47 Reynolds et al, 2000 67 Guroian, 2002 32 Forgan, 2002 48 Lenkowsky, 1987 68 Zipes, 2002 33 Apol, 1998 49 Hoagland, 1972 69 Yenika-Agbaw, 1997 34 Zabel, 1991 50 Charon & Eric, 2017 70 Zeece, 1997 35 Ohler, 2013 51 Rudnytsky & Charon, 2008 71 Robin,...…”

“…20 Modern children's literature comprises short fairytales and fables, picture books, comics, cartoons, novels, nursery rhymes that can be potentially appreciated by most children. 21 In our search, we selected 17 studies concerning pedagogic dimension of children literature, 20,22-37 while 21 and 17 studies were chosen as addressing didactic 1,5,[38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56] and therapeutic dimensions, 6,7,[57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71] respectively (Table 1).…”

“…41 Childhood is a crucial stage for language development, 75 so it is important to make it a pleasing experience: reading or listening to stories could be a joyful way for language training, able to overcome all the possible learning barriers. [42][43][44] Thanks to the recurring narrative passages intrinsic in the fairy tales' or fables, child is able to deal with some complicated concepts or patterns, which require more repetitions to be better interiorized. That's why tales are a valuable resource in teaching foreign languages and improving language skills (writing, reading, speaking and listening).…”

Teachers' Perceptions Using Narrative for Teaching English for Young Learners

“…Telling a story from memories is one of the oldest art forms of all that has been done from prehistoric times, giving each narration interesting characters making narratives very popular today and acceptable to all ages. (Daniel, 2012) explained that narrative is a way for humans to provide information, and storytelling is the most basic way that narratives are communicated. Besides being commonly used in everyday life, the narrative also plays an important role in education.…”