Elsewhere in this volume under the title Telling Stories are suggestions and good models.
Telling stories to them is a great pleasure to the story-teller, because of their responsiveness, their readiness to enjoy.
An experience of some years at the head of the children's department in the public library of Portland, Oregon, had given her a full sense of the social opportunities presented in telling stories.
Not everyone has the gift of telling stories, but if one is not gifted with the art himself, there will doubtless be someone who is, who can be secured for the purpose, if we only feel that the need is great enough.
Telling Stories This is another of those fireside games that need more readiness of mind than many persons think a game should ask for.
Telling stories in turns, or making up stories about passers-by, is useful, but it is not every one that is able to do this.
Many games which have already been described are suitable for bed, such as "Telling Stories" (p.
Some years ago, when I was in America, I was asked to put into the form of lectures my views as to the educational value of telling stories.
The art of telling stories is, in truth, much more difficult than acting a part on the stage: First, because the narrator is responsible for the whole drama and the whole atmosphere which surrounds it.
One of the most effective of artifices in telling stories to young children is the use of mimicry--the imitation of animals' voices and sound in general is of never-ending joy to the listeners.
So Polly sat down on the floor, feeling still very queer to be telling stories in the daytime without a needle in her fingers, and Joel squirmed along and laid his head in her lap.
But, children, you interrupt so much that it makes me forget all what I’m going to say, when I’m telling stories.
We were seated around a table enjoying ourselves drinking wine and telling stories, while waiting for supper, when we heard quite a noise down stairs in the direction of the bar-room.
Mr. Picket and a number of other gentlemen were seated around, and we soon got to telling stories.
They could take turns, only an hour once or twice a week, in telling stories to these new friends of hers, and who knows, if the class grew they might eventually do a great deal of good?
We go down to the colored settlement," she continued, "every Saturday morning and take turns in telling stories to the little children.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "telling stories" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
