The art of storytelling Date:
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Storytelling is the interactive method of using words and actions to reveal
the elements and images of a story while encouraging the listener’s
imagination.
There are different forms of storytelling:
Short stories (A short story is a piece of fiction that is shorter than a
novel).
Novels
Poetry
Dramas/plays
Oral tradition
A common type of short story is called folktale. Most folktales have been
passed down through storytelling and have no known original author. Folk tales
can be divided into different categories, depending on the content of the story
and the way in which the story is written.
All folk tales are short stories.
Fairy tales Fables Legends Myths
A make believe A make believe story Tells about a great Tells a story to explain
story that Hero from long Why or how something
that usually has teaches a moral ago. In nature is a certain
magic. (lesson). Characters are way.
Characters can be Characters are Usually people, Characters are animals,
animals or people. usually sometimes people, or things.
Setting is usually animals that act like People who were Setting is usually long ago
Once upon a time. people. Real.
Fables teach a Setting is usually
lesson that is usually Long ago.
said at the end of the
story.
Example: CinderellaExample: The three Example: Robbin Example: How the Zebra
Little pigs Hood Got its stripes.
Comprehension: The birth
of the moon.
Long ago, there was no stars and no moon. It was a dark at night and the
animals could not see a thing. So they decided to ask the Sun if he would
shine on them at night, as well as during the day.
“I’m sorry, but I can’t,” said the Sun. “I have to light the other side of the world.
When it’s night here, it’s day there. But I have an idea. Watch the sky tonight.
There will be a surprise.”
The animals waited impatiently all day. Finally, when night fell, they saw a
tiny crescent of light in the sky.
“Hooray!” they cried. “Thank you, Sun.”
The next morning, the Sun asked
