Articles

Some of the things that I have found students actually doing when listening to a story
By Mario Rinvolucri

Story books in the classroom
By Claudia Connolly

Storytelling in young learner classes
By Patricia Ielmini

Story telling: the language teacher's oldest technique
By Mario Rinvolucri

Activities

Chain story telling
By Arizio Moreira

Creating a framework for writing
By Jeff Fowler

Five story-telling techniques
By Mario Rinvolucri

Storylines
By David Done

Story telling grid
By Fiona Lawtie

Story writing - creative thinking
By Stuart Wiffin

True / False stories
By Richard Frost

Lesson Plans

Miko the monkey
By Sue Clarke

Storytelling: Carnival crime
By Fiona Lawtie

Telling a story
By Nik Peachey

Using stories in the classroom
By Janet Shackleton

Teacher training materials

Using stories
By Julie Tice
This training session helps teachers explore how stories can be used in class with primary or lower secondary aged pupils. The ideas can be easily used without access to storybooks or computers. The focus is on the teacher reading aloud a printed story or telling a story orally and designing motivating tasks around this.