Story Telling In Child Day Care

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Story telling is an effective way to stimulate the minds of young children. When they listen to a story without pictures as props, they imagine the characters, events and scenery the way they want instead of an illustrator's interpretation of them. In addition, children will recite the stories they learn in their own unique way as they remember them. While they are not always accurate with their recollections, retelling the stories will increase their language skills.

A child day care should include storytelling to its regular daily schedule. Just before rest time would be the ideal time to gather the children in a circle either in chairs or on the floor to tell them some type of story. Stories can be about real-life people, animals and events, or fictional in nature. Educators can allow the children to comment
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They can recite the history of the family through stories as cultures have done for generations. Another ideal way of telling stories is for the parents and children to make up their own ones to recite to each other. Mom or dad can provide a theme to the young children to base their tales on such as two children playing with their dog or allow older children to develop their own.

Educators at a child day care can even coordinate their storytelling efforts with parents. They can provide the parents with copies of the stories that they recite to the children during the week so the parents can repeat them at home. By working together, the children can memorise the tales to recite on their own.

Another way that educators can add storytelling to the childcare regimen is to create a tale around the new words of the week. Through this, the children will learn these words with a deeper understanding of their meaning and proper usage. In turn, this will expand the children's

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