This week marks National Storytelling Week. It’s the 13th such annual event run by the Society for Storytelling which has Lottery Funding via Arts Council England. Storytelling is theatre in miniature. It requires eye contact, gesture, imagination and expressive language.
Narrative ability is about telling stories or describing events in a comprehensible way.
The skills involved include:
. Being able to identify the key people and actions in an event
. Starting and finishing the 'story'
. Recounting them in the order in which they occurred
. Including key events and not including irrelevant details
Narrative skills are also dependent on specific ‘time’ vocabulary, such as yesterday, before, next etc ...
and the ability to use past, present & future tense constructions in sentences.
In our Sprinters classes we play games that help build narrative skills. We're thrilled that one of our games in now downloadable, for free, on the ICAN website. Why not download the Narrative Night & Day game and have fun together with your little one!For more details about Talking Tots or to find a class near you ... visit www.talkingtots.info