Tips For Choosing Books For Storytelling

Children naturally enjoy listening to or telling stories. Besides the enjoyment they provide, stories can help children to develop their language skills. Teachers can read from storybooks or retell or create stories, all of which enrich the interactive language environment in the classroom.

Books or stories for children should be chosen carefully. The context and language level must be suitable for the children's age and abilities. Following are some suggestions on how to choose books for children:

a. Choose books with ending that fit with happens in the story.
b. Find books with interesting pictures (colorful, if possible)
c. Search for books about children who are the students' own ages, or book about animals.
d. Look for fairy stories and folk tales which contain moral or cultural lessons which children are familiar with, such as the story of .......