Storytelling: Eight Steps That Help You Engage Your Students

Storytelling is an often-overlooked teaching and learning strategy that often helps your students comprehend the “big idea” in class lessons. Here, Ollerenshaw, a storyteller and teacher for more than 28 years, describes indigenous and contemporary views of storytelling, explains how storytelling meets the needs of young adolescents, and offers eight steps to effective storytelling, along with a list of resources.