Story Telling: A Very Effective Childhood Tool

From the time a child starts understanding sentences, she likes to hear stories. In fact, toddlers to early teens, children love to tell and listen to different types of stories. Since time immemorial grandparents were intended to tell stories and through those stories they taught children values and motivated small kids to do a lot of things. Although for some, it might seem very boring to tell stories to kids and some might find it simple wastage of time, but story telling has lots of benefits for children.

Advantages of storytelling for kids

Boosts thinking capacity

Story telling boosts thinking capacity of kids. They have an opportunity to analyse characters and situations and come up with different conclusions. The stories especially the ones that are designed for kids’ entertainment help them grasp and think on the subject.

Transfer emotions and feelings

Stories designed for kids are based on different feelings and emotions and when kids hear them, they start feeling and understand other’s feelings also.

Great activity of learning

When kids listen to a story, they have lots of questions at almost every stage. If the story teller is experienced and talented, he would encourage children to ask questions so that storytelling becomes a great learning activity. It is a basic training for academic learning.

Teaching values becomes easy

Almost every story designed for children are based on moral values. If you try to teach a child that telling truth is good or honesty is the best policy, she will not understand and forget perhaps after a second. If the same thing is told to the child through a story, she would remember it forever.

Express himself/herself

When children listen to stories, they come up with their own ideas, views and questions. This helps them express themselves and their feelings and emotions more clearly.

Sharpened memory

Storytelling activity helps sharpen brain and memory of children. If you ask your child where you had stopped the story previous day or what stories you have read for them, they will immediately tell you.

Stronger skills of imagination is developed

When you are narrating a story to children, encourage them to come up with conclusion or ask questions about characters and situations. This helps them imagine and hence creativity gets enhanced in them automatically. If stories are narrated by trained and experienced persons like teachers at Buds2blooms, children can be trained in many ways to develop stronger skills of imagination.

Generates reading habit

Children find stories interesting and after some time they feel like reading themselves and this cultivates reading habit in them at a very early age.

Improves vocabulary and language

Story telling introduces lot of vocabulary to kids. Stories usually have academic level vocabulary and kids tend to learn lot of new words through different stories.

Increases knowledge

Kids get to know different places, things, culture, people and practices in life, relationships and many more. Their knowledge database increases in a healthy way.

Enhances listening skills

Children learn to listen and understand through story telling activity.