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Hi class: This is a about Storytelling. Storytelling is an art that has mental, social and educational benefits on children. People of all ages love stories. Children are great fans of stories and love to listen to them. Storytelling literally means reading out stories to them or just telling a story from the memory to them. I think this is an important resource for teaching EFL.

Very interesting and useful! i add to my collection of resources and readings :)

Hi classmates! I want to share with you a quite helpuf resource I've found on the net. As we all know and as we have been told since the beginning of our lessons, storytelling can be perfect tool for English lessons. On this web, we as teachers and our pupils can create our own stories in a dynamyc and funny way. First of all, you have to choose the theme the story is going to be about and the grade of your pupils. Afterwards, it appears a kind of spin with different levers, and so comes to the screen aleatory facts to make an story. Afterwards, we can choose the format for our story and we can select the option of making a draw. Once we have completed this step, it's time to write the story and make a picture if we want. Finally, you can download the story in your computer. I would like you to have a look at this fantastic resource which appart from working storytellings, promotes the use of the ICT's. I hope you enjoy it.

It's a very interesting website. I liked that there are 4 different themes to create stories. I think I will use it Thank you!

I like so much this page, is a good tools to use in primary because each pupils can choose about what want they write, so each pupils write about their interesting. I hope that in the future we can use all of tools that we are sharing! :)

This article is about the educational uses of Digital Storytelling. Telling and listening to stories is an ancient tradition that can benefit foreign language learners of all ages, languages, and levels of proficiency. Stories contain linguistic, paralinguistic, discourse, and cultural features that provide the comprehensible input and output that students need to develop their oral skills. As with traditional storytelling, you tell stories using computer-based tools, usually contain some mixture of images, text, recorded audio, narration, video clips and/or music.

Hi classmates! This is my second contribution in diigo. Last week we had an exhibition of storytelling. One of the stories that the professional told us was "the very hungry caterpillar", written by Eric Carle. I strongly believe that tell our students this story could be very useful, especially because it contains lots of interesting vocabulary. Here, in this page, you can find plenty of activities that will reinforce the vocabulary learnt by the students. As we have seen this weeks in the university, English classroom is dominated by the textbook. It decides what we have to do in the classroom. Nevertheless, we can use a lot of resources in order to produce intrinsic motivation in our pupils. I consider that storytelling can be a good learning tool because it promotes among other things, creativity and imagination. Furthermore, if we use stories in class, we will encourage the development of language among students. Here you can read the story http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/Very_Hungry_Caterpillar_Printable_Booklet.PDF I hope you like it!

i like so much the story, easy and very useful for teachers

Hello Class!!! I found this web with a lot of stories. We can download the audio archive in mp3 format or listen to it online. Also, we can read the story in the web page or print the story I think that this web is very useful for us because we can use it with our pupils. I hope you use it in future

Hello everyone! This article is about the Artigal's Method. It is based on short stories that promote communication in the English language throughout staging. Each short story, adapted to the level of the class, presents different didactic material that, by means of characters and their actions, makes children learn without realising it. So, what was senseless for kids at the beginning is at the end something that has sense in the English language, using the English words they have listened, memorized and learned.

Storybird is a community where you can upload and see a lot of storys that could be read in class. The storys that appears in this community are very artistic, given that is a free expression space where a lot of artists upload their creations. We have the option to search the kind of story that we wish, because these are ordered by categories, ages, authors...

A story teller telling different stories. You might think of different possible ways to use it in the FL classroom.

Hi classmates! this web page I found it when I started to teaching in my free-time. I think that it is a good page because if you aren't creative you can use pictures and tools for this web page. There are a lot of pictures, flash card, little stories and a lot of thing... I think that it can result useful. I hope that you see it!

I like to much this page in order than you can teach some vocabulary exercises in a funny way. For example if you explaining the lesson about sport, you can use the crossword that the web offers. Also you can work other difficult tasks as irregular verbs in a funny way. The student learn better if they enjoy it. Good work and thanks!

but not only there are crosswords, there are a lot of activities, like a telling in a photocopiable, functions, notions... I liked it so much! and I use it a lot of time!

This is a video I think everybody should see. It is the story behind Finland´s educational system. The reason for tagging this video is the general idea you get for their success. It shows us the theory we are studying and the possible application. Although I don´t think it is possible to implement this system in Spain because of the big social and cultural differences it gives you a good idea about how it could be. In the video they talk about the differences, their curriculum, assessment, objectives, planning, tasks, their aims, some activities, the way students are invited to make their own decisions etc. Have a look, it's a real eye opener.

I´ve been fascinated with this documentary. It´s very interesting and amazing the educational process in Finland. Really I would like to learn much of this system, but the first thinking come to my mind is we are years behind. I understand is other culture and society, when they speak about the trust in everybody related with education, is something unthinkable here, by bad luck. This is a very recommendable video, you don´t believe you are going to lose an hour see it. I´ve finished very motivated, and I would want to know more closer this system, if could possible, visiting Finland.

Hey mates, This link will conduce you to a website about storytelling. It will help you with this topic. Here you can find some basic nuances about the three core tools for oral storytelling: the story, your voice and your gestures.

Hi again folks! This is another really interesting web, where you can find too many resources that can be really useful for us now and in the future. This web is divided in some sections: TOPICS: This section introduces young learners to basic English vocabulary grouped into 36 thematic topics, reflecting kids' interests. EXPRESSIONS: This section contains an online picture story divided into 36 episodes, plus printable worksheets and board games for introducing, practicing and revising new words and phrases. GRAMMAR: Learn and practice English grammar in a fun and colorful way. This section is divided into 7 parts called adventures. Each adventure is about a different point of grammar and comes with online and printable activities. ENGLISH SONGS FOR KIDS: This section contains a small collection of the most popular English songs for kids and Christmas carols. There are others interesting sections as games, printable activities, text etc. I will recommend you to see it. I hope that you enjoy it!