It’s National Storytelling week soon, and I’ve been looking at ways to engage the children interactively in the art of storytelling. We did story sticks last year, which was a…
Storytelling Games That Will Get Your Kids Thinking Out of the Box
Engage kids with storytelling games. Once kids start telling fiction narrative stories out loud, it will improve their written stories.
The Winter Solstice Begins a Season of Storytelling and Ceremony
In the Northern Hemisphere, the December solstice is the year’s day of least sunlight, when the sun takes its lowest, shortest path across the sky. North of the Arctic Circle,…
The Winter Solstice Begins a Season of Storytelling and Ceremony
In the Northern Hemisphere, the December solstice is the year’s day of least sunlight, when the sun takes its lowest, shortest path across the sky. North of the Arctic Circle,…
How to Own Your Story: Vivian Gornick on the Art of Personal Narrative and Nuanced Storytelling
“The memoirist … must engage with the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it’s the wisdom — or rather the movement toward it — t…
NATIONAL STORYTELLING WEEK
This week is National Story Telling week and today is World Read Aloud day. In our home, reading and telling a story goes beyond words on a page. We like…
‘Visual Storytelling’: New Language for the Age of Data Overload
Over the past several years, our quest to extract meaning from information has taken us more and more toward the realm of visual storytelling
Fairytale Storytelling Basket – The Imagination Tree
Create a story basket full of storytelling props to retell favourite fairy tales together in a playful way! So easy to set up with items from around the house and…
‘I’ve got my own story’: Deborah, Leah and Nakkiah on why we need more Indigenous storytelling – ABC Everyday
To celebrate NAIDOC Week, we had a chat with Deborah Mailman, Leah Purcell and Nakkiah Lui to hear how they started and how Indigenous stories inspired them to become the…
Hans Christian Andersen’s Revolution of Storytelling and the Best Illustrations from 150 Years of His Beloved Fairy Tales
“Andersen had the ability to articulate desires petty and profound and make them into transcendent tales.”