What is it about?
This article looks at the power of story telling and its function for stimulating cognition in children.
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Why is it important?
This work is important to understand ways of developing children's thinking skills, improving their capacity for literacy and understanding the world.
Perspectives
This piece of work was written from data gathered for my Doctoral Thesis, what was too much to fully include in the final work. It shows how important telling or reading stories to chilren (and adults for that matter) actually helps them think, so it is a great tool for education and learning.
Dr Marianne R Bamkin
Explores the value of reading stories to young children and the role storytelling plays in the development of literacy and learning skills.
Professor Anne Goulding
Victoria University of Wellington
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This page is a summary of: The Children Sat and Listened: Storytelling on Children's Mobile Libraries, New Review of Children s Literature and Librarianship, April 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13614541.2013.755023.
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