Although it may be obvious, the key to successful storytelling is to tell stories kids want to hear. Fortunately, there are loads of ways to create compelling stories (see our Storytelling Tips for ideas). But one of the best is to put your kids at the center of a story they are sure to like — making friends with a dinosaur, traveling to outer space, driving a garbage truck, swimming with mermaids, or setting up a hospital to rescue sick monkeys — it makes little difference as long as you, in your role of storyteller, have created a world your little listeners want to enter. And your story will be even more successful if your listeners closely identify with a key character — ideally, so closely that they imagine they are that character.
We offer all sorts of tips to help you make your stories more creative and captivating.
Go to a wealth of storytelling tips for parents, kids, librarians and teachers.
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