Exploring the dynamic language arts interconnections between speaking, listening, and literacy, this interactive workshop encourages the use of oral storytelling in the classroom to enhance and develop both teachers’ and students’ narrative skill. Workshop activities offer experiential insights into how storytellers use metaphor, descriptive language, facial expression, body language, and evocative gesture to create powerful images in the minds of their listeners. Filled with stories, this workshop encourages teachers and child caregivers to explore their own innate storytelling abilities, to integrate storytelling into the curriculum, and to stimulate narrative expression in children.
