http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/2007/05/16/jim-flanagan-storytelling-and-writing-are-intertwined/ Interviewing the best of the Storytelling Community. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:46:36 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/2007/05/16/jim-flanagan-storytelling-and-writing-are-intertwined/comment-page-1/#comment-157161 Mary Beth Spann Tue, 29 May 2007 18:54:51 +0000 http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/?p=29#comment-157161 In my own teaching, children seem better equipped to come more willingly to the writing experience if they have first shared an oral storytelling experience. Aside from the points made in the podcast, I believe storytelling offers kids a language model that triggers memories and connections they long to express. Their writing then becomes an exchange of ideas, a conversation of sorts, with that of the storyteller's. In my own teaching, children seem better equipped to come more willingly to the writing experience if they have first shared an oral storytelling experience. Aside from the points made in the podcast, I believe storytelling offers kids a language model that triggers memories and connections they long to express. Their writing then becomes an exchange of ideas, a conversation of sorts, with that of the storyteller’s.

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