1. How to Build Storytelling into your Classroom

2. What’s the Big Deal About Telling?

3. Stories are the way we store information in the brain.

4. Stories engage the emotions.

5. Storytelling instills a love of language in children and motivates the desire to read.

6. Storytelling develops listening skills.

7. Storytelling by teachers motivates children to tell stories. It begins with us

8. Introducing our Story Square

9. And they all Lived Happily Ever After…

10. The Story Museum – lots of audio stories http://www.storymuseum.org.uk/ International School of Storytelling - Courses http://www.schoolofstorytelling.com Pie Corbett http://www.piecorbett.org.uk/ Tim Sheppard http://www.timsheppard.co.uk/story/ Society for Storytelling – Events and Resources http://www.sfs.org.uk/