In the classroom, storytellers connect kids to the world via stories and maps.

Benefit of Stories

The special connection created between our storytellers and the children of the St. Vrain Valley schools enriches the mind of the listener through enhanced understanding of world culture and improved cognition.

And, bringing community members into the school creates intergenerational bonding.

Information for Teachers

Why Oral Storytelling in Classrooms?

  • Independent, published research shows a positive link between oral storytelling and academic success. Listening and speaking are core skills that cross all content areas.
  • Listening and speaking are core skills that cross all content areas.
  • Oral storytelling requires students to visualize and imagine, which supports reading comprehension and evokes critical thinking skills that are essential to all higher learning.
  • Tales from around the world expand a child’s world view.
  • Fables and folktales stimulate grit, resiliency, and perseverance as they show that dragons can indeed be slain and that heroes and heroines can come from the most unlikely places.

Kids LOVE it!!

Storyteller is a “stealthy” literacy-building tool.