How the stories should be “done”, from a teacher’s perspective, translated…
The mother of a student wrote very beautifully to me, but she had a hard time, helping her own child improve on writing, and to fall in love with the language arts. I’d told her, “Telling and performing the stories is the best way to get the young interested”, although it’s overly stated, but, it works.
As I was giving a reading lesson to the first grade children, I’d often used this method, to get the children to feel the wordings of the essays. “My son not only performed the stories for me, he’d even taught me the imaginative ways languages are being used………”, an American parent told me through the homeroom instructor ecstatically, turns out, those small stories can help root down that love for language at a young age.
Some worried, that when children in the elementary years get introduced to the various usages of language, they feel defeated easily, without knowing, that teachers are best in “the art of making the terms easy to understand”. Like how I’d rewritten that joke for the second graders: the small planes reduced fuel, the pilot asked the elementary student, the doctor, the engineer, and the school principal to use the parachutes to make it out alive, but there were only three parachutes on the plane. “The patients need me, I should take the parachute”, the doctor stated. “I’m the smartest man on earth, so of course, I should get to live”, stated the engineer, as he was so full of confidence, took that leap. As for the school principal, he’d consoled with the elementary student, ‘You have a bright future up ahead, you should have the parachute.” The elementary student said, without hurrying, “Let’s land together, the engineer just took the backpack mom bought for me and jumped…”
actively participating in the lessons is an added effect of having a story-telling teacher in the classrooms…NOT my photograph.
The children opened up their eyes wide for a while, then, dropped their jaws, and, in the end, they’d given me this loud applause, then burst out laughing.
The sentence structure and adjectives, not only were they able to impress the students deeply, it’d led them into a new realm of thinking: could it be, that the engineer was way too confident, that, was why he was the one who died? And, the death of the engineer, it’s truly, pitiful! If they both shared a parachute, are they both going to be saved…………
Through how the stories are told, with the alters in the tones of voices, the narrations, it’d helped the instructors, as well as the students, hone up their creativities, it’d also allowed me to examine, whether or not the stories are suited well for the students, or, if I’d told it in an alternative way to discuss the plot. On the other hand, I will dismiss the class, at the climax of my stories, so the kids can speculate and guess at what may happen next.
Telling the stories, it’d, closed the distance between the children and I, no matter where I go, I can hear the kids hollering out to me, like I’m a super star, and, the cleaning lady would always comment, “Wow, teacher, you are, truly successful, the children all loved you very much!”
an active way of telling and doing the stories for children…photo from online…
“What the children won’t forget in their younger years, are always those stories the adults told to them…”, my colleague had proven to me, that stories, are the light that made childhood glow. “No matter how the times changed, the teachers must work hard, to ignite that interest in learning in the students.” Training myself as a performer, through my voice, my facial expressions, to perform the stories for the children, it’s a way of moving them, a great chance, to communicate my ideals to them with words.
This just shows, the importance of stories, and, every kid loves having stories told, or read to them, it’s just, based off of how busy the parents get, they’d stopped, reading to their young, and, there are not very many school instructors who are willing to take the time, away from the regular coursework, to read and act out a story for the students!
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